Screen hangs for 2 or so minutes

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Screen hangs for 2 or so minutes

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Post by Raptro6L » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:30 pm

Hi all

I've had a good run so far with my 8.1wmc machine, but I've recently developed a problem. When waking from sleep or from a reboot, whatever action I request from WMC whether it be show the guide or Live TV, or enter the recorded tv section the picture hangs for about 2 or 3 minutes before it comes to life again and goes to wherever it is supposed to.

If multiple key presses has happened during the hang time, the system chases all those functions once the hang time has ended. If Live TV has been selected, it actually activates the channel and I can hear the audio of the channel as normal, just don't get a channel picture for a couple of minutes.

Anybody have anything similar to this happen to them? Any idea what it could be?

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Chris

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Post by newfiend » Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:56 am

Are you having slowdowns across the entire PC or just within WMC?

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Post by joelkirzner » Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:26 am

Replace the hard drive with a solid state drive.
Problem solved.

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Post by Raptro6L » Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:34 pm

newfiend wrote:Are you having slowdowns across the entire PC or just within WMC?
The computer has been going for a couple of years now, just the usual slowing down over time. I have recorded tv network shares on my emby server. I thought it might have been related to that somehow, so I removed those connections. It still does it unfortunately.

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Post by Raptro6L » Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:35 pm

joelkirzner wrote:Replace the hard drive with a solid state drive.
Problem solved.
Not the solution as it already has one.

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Post by Raptro6L » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:19 pm

I've just noticed it does it even if you exit WMC then re-enter it again. So I'm guessing it's an eHome thing that's causing this?

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Post by newfiend » Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:51 am

Raptro6L wrote:I've just noticed it does it even if you exit WMC then re-enter it again. So I'm guessing it's an eHome thing that's causing this?
What brand TV Tuner are you using?
Have you opened a cmd prompt and run sfc /scannow ?
That will scan and repair any corrupt system files.
Have you scanned the recording drive to see if it's going bad or ran a utility to check for faulty memory?

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Post by Raptro6L » Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:38 pm

newfiend wrote:What brand TV Tuner are you using?
2x Hauppauge and 1x Avermedia
newfiend wrote:Have you opened a cmd prompt and run sfc /scannow ?
Didn't know about that one. Running it now.

The ram is all good. One of the first things I checked.
Storage drive (also where the buffer is) is also good.

It only does it once, after that it's fine until WMC is exited for whatever reason.

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Chris

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Post by newfiend » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:02 am

Raptro6L wrote:
newfiend wrote:What brand TV Tuner are you using?
2x Hauppauge and 1x Avermedia
newfiend wrote:Have you opened a cmd prompt and run sfc /scannow ?
Didn't know about that one. Running it now.

The ram is all good. One of the first things I checked.
Storage drive (also where the buffer is) is also good.

It only does it once, after that it's fine until WMC is exited for whatever reason.

Thanks
Chris
Another place you can check is event viewer and see if there is anything reporting errors there when launching wmc.

If you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del you can also launch task manager and see if the cpu and or memory are getting unusually taxed at initial launch. Or if there is some process getting stuck?

I wish I could be more helpful but this has me a bit stumped.

You could additionally pull one tuner at a time and launch wmc. See if the problem goes away.. possible bad tuner?

What were the results of sfc /scannow?
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Post by DavidinCT » Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:59 pm

I could see a few seconds but, 2 min ? And If a live TV is playing you hear audio but, a frozen screen ?

Check video drivers, maybe roll back or update(WMC is not a big deal on newer drivers), update DirectX (WMC animations need DirectX and if it's not updated could have some funky affects)
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