SJMaye
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This is my case http://www.origenae.co.kr/en/htpc_s21t.htm
There is plenty of room with the exception of the DVD drive almost directly above the cooler.
As for alternatives I would like to use the pins to avoid pulling out the motherboard to install backing plate. Is it possible the OEM fan is just cheap and noisier than most?
[quote=Aaron Ledger]
What controller are your drives on? Your board has two IIRC: Intel and Gigabyte. [/quote]
I am using the Intel sata ports. I have not yet installed the GSATA drivers yet since I was not using them. Good thought. Let me have a crack at them.
John and Swoon,
Just watched my first show. Problem still exists. To clarify, it has been this way since going to Win 7. In fact, this issue helped me justify to myself to update from my dual core/mb setup to the current i7-860. Truth is I just wanted to do it. The thing is I never remember the issue with Vista MC. But it was present with my old MB/CPU setup and still present with the current setup. That’s water under the bridge. I will just try to track it down now.
I like the idea of adding an external drive to determine if it is a controller issue. As I don’t have one yet, I would like to ask something else. Are there any drive settings I should be looking for?
I will reiterate, in trying to determine if this was related to a bad secondary HDD I set the TV to record on the main C:. This did affect the playback quality initially, but it appeared to come back with time. I also installed a new secondary hard drive. Again, it appeared to work better for a week or so, then problems came back.
Right now the system is very usable. More of a nuisance than anything. Love to get to the bottom of it.
Updated bios to latest. Found a setting that could help;HPET. In the past I did not know what it was for and left it set to 32bit. I am runnning Win7 x64, so I set to 64bit.
Will monitor the results and come back.
No complaints here. You guys have been great at sharing your knowledge. I find these forums far more technically responsive than most. All I can say is, Thanks!
I knew it had to be something simple. Just too used to the other forums. Thanks Michael.
I watching closely the last couple days since all the motherboard updates. Playback is better, but I still get a 1/2 second pause or video goes to slow motion about 2 – 3 times in a 1 hr show. Each time I can rewind and replay, but there error does not repeat itself. Each time the error seems to accompany hearing the hard drive rumbling.
Since I can replay and it works fine it indicates to me the video is recorded properly. In the past I did replace the drive with another. There was an improvement for a week or two, but it returned. All drives so far have been gren drives. Should I be looking for a 7200rpm drive to store recorded video?
I still have not updated my bios. I had some issues in the bios recognizing the updated bios file so I have a ticket in with Gigabyte.
Hi Swoon,
Back from traveling again and I have repaired my System Restore. Albeit not the way I would have wanted. Instead of doing a full reinstall I did a repair install. It worked, but I was looking forward to doing clean install and creating a drive image with SP1 and all updates so I would not worry about this again.
Right now I am installing all the motherboard updates minus the bios update. I will check for any improvement in system performance. If the pauses persist i will do the bios update.
No. The HTPC is running Microsoft Security Essentials.
So far no luck. May be doing a full reinstall, but will give me a chance to fix these things from the ground up.
Hey Swoon,
I will do ask you recommend, but having a greater problem fixing the System Restore than I thought. I am trying to fix that first. I will be traveling again all week. Will take another stab at this when I return. I will be in touch.
Not installing the F6 driver is fine by me. What about the other one for SATA? “Intel® Rapid Storage Technology”. here is the link to the page http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3164#dl
I can update the bios as well.
I think I have found a way to fix my System Restore.
OK. Not for sure, but I do not remember loading any of these drivers during the motherboard install. I downloaded all the latest drivers and proceeded to install.
Audio driver- Success
Chipset driver- Success
Lan driver- Success
Sata driver- screwed the pooch on the install of the “Intel SATA Preinstall driver”.
I burned to cd. set in boot sequence to boot from DVD drive. Nothing so i could tell anyway. It just seemed to go directly to Windows boot-up. Then out of frustration I did a forced shutdown while Windows was loading. When I booted it again it wnet to Windows repair due to the forced shutdown. It found issues, but did not fix anything. Asked about doing a system restore, but did not do that as I did not want to reinstall those drivers over again. I booted in to Windows without issue. I thought I would check for a system restore point anyway. Although I know system restore was already enabled it said it was not. And it will not allow me to enable it. Strange thing is it shows my C: drive as “Protected”, but shows System Restore turned off. Whenever I try to look at a possible sys restore point it says it is turned off. It will not allow me to turn it on.
Good news is at least the HTPC is working so the wife is happy, just would like to fix the system restore thing and continue to update those drivers.
Should I consider updating the bios as well?
I cnnot remember how the drive was formatted. It has been a couple years. I will check all this when I get back this weekend. I will post back what I find.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3. With a Intel i7-860. Have I loaded the chipset and storage drivers? I should have during the install, but I cannot recall and as we saw with the whole video thing I missed some things.
Would my best move be to update all the motherboard drivers and even the bios just to be sure? I am traveling this week. I can work on it this weekend.
Yes, this also happened with the 8600GT card. This did not happen with Vista though. Odd. I am running the latest drivers. The recorded tv is on a second drive. A 1.5TB Seagate green drive, but a different drive did the the same thing.
I feel the problem is definitely HDD based. Everytime there is a pause or slow motion you hear the drive rumbling as if to look for something. I can rewind to the same spot and it will play OK. Do I need a 7200rpm drive?
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