My hardware is as listed below. I am using the PVR-350 TV out. A couple of times a week while watching a recorded show, the screen moves left about a fifth, leaving a vertical black bar on the right, and the picture takes on a blue hue, and the faces turn reddish. After a reboot, all returns to normal. I scoured the forum back to before R5F27 release, and found nothing. A Google search shows nothing as well. Anyone have any ideas as to what could be the problem? I'd appreciate any help!!

cantator

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LinHES 8.4.3 Backend on MSI Z97 PC Mate with Pentium CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, Two HD Homeruns + One HD Homerun Prime, 20 TB of storage

I'm having the same problem. It occurs randomly after watching live TV or a recording for a while (usually after an hour or two). A reboot seems to solve the problem temporarily.

I'm running an AMD XP 3000, 1GB Ram, PVR350 (using tv-out), PVR150MCE, 250GB IDE HDD, an MSI n-force2 mobo (forget the model number).

This started happening after an upgrade to CPU/RAM/Mobo (i did a fresh install), which was a few months after upgrading the R5F27.

Any thoughs would be appreciated

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LinHES 8.4.3 Backend on MSI Z97 PC Mate with Pentium CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, Two HD Homeruns + One HD Homerun Prime, 20 TB of storage

Hi,

Might try to do a reseating of the cards in case there maybe some contactitis developing. Thermal issues maybe?

Mike

I have a similar problem on my girlfriend's PVR-350 system.

Sometimes it shifts with a color change, sometimes it just
gets a color change.

Sometimes, without even a color change, using Ctrl-Alt-F1
to get to a text console shows an odd increasing of
character size, with only the top 15 lines visible and the
right side of the display being a duplicate of the left and
only showing fourty-five columns (for a total width of 90
columns of which 5 or 6 are chopped off each on the left
and right). Once you get this messed up console text size,
using Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X display, the display
is similarly messed up. 'pkill xinit' does not fix it. You
have to reboot. Once rebooted, the Ctrl-Alt-F1 console
is fine again and Ctrl-Alt-F7 gets back to a normal looking
Knoppmyth X display.

I have determined that it is in the PVR-350 output alone
and not the input that is the problem as recordings made
while the colors are messed up can be viewed ok after a
reboot. It seems to happen more often when I install an
add-on USB 2.0 PCI card. I have tried swapping the USB
2.0 card out with a different model, but it still occurs.

The motherboard and both of the USB cards have VIA chips
in them. The CPU is an Athlon 1400.

You other guys have VIA chip sets?

Cliff

Here is an 'lspci' from my girlfriend's system that exhibits this issue:

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R5F27 using R5F1 Nvidia drivers
HD-5500 analog from NTSC Sat Rx, with OTA DVB too
GeForce MX-440 SVideo tvout to a TV
Older dual core 3.4ghz Intel CPU
Asus P5PE-VM Motherboard
2 GB RAM
1 TB LVM2
VirtualBox
Samba

No, I don't have a VIA chipset, but I think it may have been a thermal issue with my PVR-350, for when I opened the case the other day when it (Knoppmyth) was frozen, I noticed its (pvr-350) heatsink had fallen off. I got some Arctic thermal adhesive to remount it, which worked great, but when I booted up, all I'm getting is a L 99 99 99... error.

I tried to re-install R5F27, as well as (horrors!!) Vista, but am still getting the same error. Could the hard drive be hosed?

Hopefully I can get it fixed, for I'm leaving this week and my wife (who wondered why I was spending so much time initially learning Knoppmyth three years ago) is pretty much freaking out if it won't be working by the time I leave!

To sum up, I believe the issue from my original post in this thread may have been thermal, which would also explain the lockups I've been getting. I hope the PVR-350 isn't hosed!

I'll report back when I get it running...

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LinHES 8.4.3 Backend on MSI Z97 PC Mate with Pentium CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, Two HD Homeruns + One HD Homerun Prime, 20 TB of storage

I 've seen the 99 99 99 error before booting the system
when I upgraded to a larger disk and Lilo got confused.
It basically means that Lilo (the boot manager) is having
a problem.

You can try this

Boot using the KnoppMyth CD, and Quit to a command line.
Type the following

mount /dev/ hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount -t proc none /mnt/hda1/proc
chroot /mnt/hda1
lilo -v
reboot

take out the CD and keep your fingers crossed