hipsterdoofus
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2009
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Confession: I am an idiot. The reason is because I thought I would be a nice son and take my old computer and turn it into an HTPC for my parents. DO NOT DO THIS! You will support it forever!
Okay so for the most part the config for this machine is listed in my sig. The original build is a 2007 system. My HTPC is a 2009 build and I've never had problems at all.
Anyway, my parents say that it "locks up" on them and they have to restart. And of COURSE it never locks up when I check on it. So I'm trying to troubleshoot and I know there are some people here who are great with these things.
My dad says it will lock up at times during watching live tv, at times watching recorded tv and at times watching netflix on media center. I can't imagine it being a memory issue - my HTPC has 2 gigs of memory also and recently was recording 4 things while watching another all without a hitch. The hard drive I replaced so it is barely a year old. Any ideas on ways to figure out what is going on with it? Thanks
Okay so for the most part the config for this machine is listed in my sig. The original build is a 2007 system. My HTPC is a 2009 build and I've never had problems at all.
Anyway, my parents say that it "locks up" on them and they have to restart. And of COURSE it never locks up when I check on it. So I'm trying to troubleshoot and I know there are some people here who are great with these things.
My dad says it will lock up at times during watching live tv, at times watching recorded tv and at times watching netflix on media center. I can't imagine it being a memory issue - my HTPC has 2 gigs of memory also and recently was recording 4 things while watching another all without a hitch. The hard drive I replaced so it is barely a year old. Any ideas on ways to figure out what is going on with it? Thanks