Sage TV causes reboots

[BRAINIAC88]

Hello all,

SageTV is an awesome piece of software. The trouble is, I cannot get it to work consistently. I had already reinstalled XP with SP1, with all the latest patches and hardware drivers. I am using a Hauppauge PVR250 in the PVR machine in my sig below.

Sometimes when starting up SageTV, it will get stuck at "Priming Seeker". Once, the machine rebooted when I tried to click "record" on one program. And sometimes when I try to watch live TV, all I get is a black screen with no sound. I tried messing with all the overlay settings, decoders, and vid card drivers, to no avail. Thus, I had to reformat and put XP and SP1 again.

I am sure of hardware stability as I encounter no other problems when putting the same machine to perform heavy tasks. Plus, I recently replaced the memory and PSU with newer models.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

brainiac

[omslaw]

Install the Hauppauge WinTV application, drivers and MPEG software decoders. Then SageTV should run fine. If not, let us know.

[mangriotis]

Similar things happened to me when installing new memory (I also blamed Sage initially)...

Rebooting is usually indicative of an unrecoverable memory exception... I would recommend testing with memtest86.

I would not assume stability after installing new ram...

[BRAINIAC88]

Thanks for the reply. As for the memory, I am 100% sure the new sticks are not to blame. They have been tested running at CAS2 and at 150+ MHz DDR. These guys are solid.

I will try again using SageTV later when I get home. I installed the WinTV2000 app along with the Scheduler (which I could not get to work with TitanTV, but that's another issue).

Almost there....

[SHS]

But overclocking is not ok.
Maybe the memory you got is not rigth memory or it the PSU it self that the problem.

[BRAINIAC88]

Well, the system has been up over 24 hrs running eMule and recording using the WinTV scheduler at the same time, with absolutely no issues.

I will update how SageTV responds later.

Anybody tried using the Microsoft VM (Java) instead of the Sun Java? I've read usenet posts where the MS VM is more efficient, faster, smaller, etc...