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<blockquote data-quote="Bleazle" data-source="post: 172431" data-attributes="member: 53582">A quick update on ks.sys/BSOD problem (I'm currently in the dog box because the HTPC is unresponsive - every re-start leads to a BSOD..) MP was working fine this morning (2nd day in a row - wahoo!) and today all I did on th HTPC was download a few movies <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> and preview some of them using Windows Media Player. In between times the kids watched a bit of recorded TV in MP. Then I set a few programmes to record and closed MP. When I went to open MP to kick back after dinner the BSOD mades it's appearance!!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />&nbsp; I'm pretty sure that MP had started to record by then, so I'm thinking maybe that's the problem - trying to open MP while TV Server is recording could be screwing it up? I know from previous experience that there is no way of killing these programmes and no matter what I do (including turning the power off) I won't be able to restart MP until the recording is finished. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Does this sound likea reasonable explanation to my BSOD episodes? I hope it is because that's easy fixed - leave MP running if a programme is about to record......</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bleazle, post: 172431, member: 53582"] A quick update on ks.sys/BSOD problem (I'm currently in the dog box because the HTPC is unresponsive - every re-start leads to a BSOD..) MP was working fine this morning (2nd day in a row - wahoo!) and today all I did on th HTPC was download a few movies :D and preview some of them using Windows Media Player. In between times the kids watched a bit of recorded TV in MP. Then I set a few programmes to record and closed MP. When I went to open MP to kick back after dinner the BSOD mades it's appearance!!:o I'm pretty sure that MP had started to record by then, so I'm thinking maybe that's the problem - trying to open MP while TV Server is recording could be screwing it up? I know from previous experience that there is no way of killing these programmes and no matter what I do (including turning the power off) I won't be able to restart MP until the recording is finished. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Does this sound likea reasonable explanation to my BSOD episodes? I hope it is because that's easy fixed - leave MP running if a programme is about to record...... [/QUOTE]

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