[Kato-2]

Thanks for the reply it is very confusing as I cannot understand exactly what is the problem.

One further item I have discovered is that the ATI Catalyst driver installer for 225 would not uninstall saying it was missing a dependency. I tracked that down to the VC++ 2005 files and installed the runtime to give it the missing files and the uninstaller kicked into life after that.

I then re-installed the 225 driver and I'm going to do some more testing hopefully the missing files were part of the problem.


Update: After further testing the missing Visual C++ files for the ATI driver where not the problem. I removed the driver completely and relied on the one provided through Windows Update only but with no change still get corrupted video with certain recordings.

After looking further other the event log I noticed a catalogue of errors all for various items like an ACPI IRQ error or various service and Media Centre errors but they all occur around the same time which leads me to believe after a period of time this bug happens which is what screws up some recordings & is why some are okay.

I thought it may be an IRQ problem so I set PCI IRQ to manual in bios to no effect errors in event log still occurred. I then tried removing the drivers in the device manager related to ACPI which forced a mass driver reinstall of all the components in the system but if anything this made things worse as now the LiveTV in Media Centre stutters all the time.

So I'm at a loss as to the problem my last course of action is to revert the the Microsoft Vista built in driver in the hopes this solves it.