Well, it would appear that my shuttle is nearing the end of its life..
It plays normal DVD/AVI content but it just fails miserably when it comes to HD stuff.
Got into my head that getting an ATi HD card would solve the problem as the ATi card would play the HD content and take the strain off of the CPU (XP2500 Barton)
Problem is the HD2400 I just bought makes no difference what so ever, its any better than the 7600GS I had in there previously, and to make matters worse when it boots into windows its fine but as soon as MCE loads up I get a black screen, you can move the mouse and the cursor appears and u can use the remote but the screen stays black and you cant see a bloody thing, Alt-F4 takes you back to the windows desktop and all is normal..
I'm hoping its a driver/codec thing and this ATi card will actually do what I want it too, would be a shame to have to replace the Shuttle after all this time as all it does is MCE these days....
Spec
XP2500 Barton
1gb PC3200
40Gb HDD
DVD/RW
HD2400Pro 256Mb AGP or NV7600GS 256Mb AGP
All I want to do is use the damned thing as an MCE box and play HD content...


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