Hard drive causing stuttering - ideas? (1 Viewer)

[tatch76]

I upgraded to 1.02 and installed new SATA Segate 1TB Hard drive at same time.

Ever since, I've had problems with stuttering - but only when recording live TV (which is recording onto new hard drive).

Long story short - after lots of trouble shooting and searching these forums, I've determined that it is the hard drive that is causing the stuttering. When I move recording file to my old hard drive (still installed) all issues go away.

Any ideas what could be causing this hard drive to be recording so slow off Media Portal which is causing the stuttering? Ideas to fix? I'm almost out of space with my old gear - so really hoping to get this solved!

Thanks!

 

[flokel]

I'd first check with seatools if the hd works properly.

 

[lloydsmart]

There should be a fix for your hard drive but in the meantime you could try using a ramdisk for your temporary live recording files. That should eliminate stuttering, then just have it save the finished file to the hard drive. I read about this being done somewhere on these forums.

 

[petsa]

Hi tatch76,

I bought a 1TB Seagate and got stuttering. After I installed the firmware update from Seagate it went away. Please check their support pages.

/Peter

 

[tatch76]

so I'm a bit of a moron as it is my WD Green drive giving me the headache, not the Seagate. Should this make any difference? I did try the Seatools utility which indicated no errors.

I've also disabled the cache feature which seemed to be giving some people problems - no luck here.

 

[tatch76]

 

[pegial]

Hi.

One question... ¿have you installed/upgrade the chipset drivers? It's the most cause of problems with SATA HDD's....

In the motherboard BIOS, the best option for SATA HDD's it's set SATA mode to AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), but in WINDOWS XP isn't supported.

If you have installed WINDOWS VISTA or WINDOWS 7, the AHCI mode is fully supported. For use AHCI in WINDOWS XP, there is a way....

1.- In the MOTHERBOARD CD DRIVERS there are a drivers for add AHCI support on WINDOWS XP. This diver is installed in a floppy disc and when you start the WINDOWS XP installation, you can see in the bottom line a option "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver". You must be press F6 and windows installation read from floppy disc the driver, and then your WINDOWS XP is fully AHCI support. If you don't have floppy disc drive, try this option... Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6) - No Floppy...no Windows on SATA? Wrong! - Softpedia

2.- The most UNNATENDED WINDOWS XP installation discs they have SATA support. Is the most easy way to install WINDOWS XP with AHCI support, but if your motherboard is very new, your SATA drivers it can`t work.

 

[MikeL]

Hi Tatch76. I am having exactly the same problem. I'm running under XP and yes, my new HDD is a WD Green 1TB as well. Did you end up figuring a solution? Seems a shame to upgrade to a 1TB disk only to then find is good for anything but what you bought it for. MikeL

 

[wonkyd]

Hi Tatch76. I am having exactly the same problem. I'm running under XP and yes, my new HDD is a WD Green 1TB as well. Did you end up figuring a solution? Seems a shame to upgrade to a 1TB disk only to then find is good for anything but what you bought it for. MikeL

I had a 1TB WD Green edition. It used to cause my system to stutter and even cause a crash resulting in a blank screen. Always tested OK but I eventually had it replaced. Brand new replacement did exactly the same so I sent it back, got a refund and bought a 1TB Samsung F3 and all my problems disappeared!