SageTV Community  

Go Back   SageTV Community > SageTV Products > SageTV Placeshifter
Forum Rules FAQs Community Downloads Today's Posts Search

Notices

SageTV Placeshifter Discussion related to the SageTV Placeshifter application produced by SageTV. Questions, issues, problems, suggestions, etc. relating to the SageTV Placeshifter software application should be posted here.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 01-23-2010, 09:22 AM
ianb ianb is offline
Sage Advanced User
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 77
Placeshifter - no picture with Interl 945 Express graphics chipset

I had placeshifter working on my Acer laptop until recently. Suddenly, I started placeshifter and and when I try to view TV etc. I get sound and no picture with an error message to the effect that there is a hardware incompatibility and my hardware does not support overlay.

I am using Vista 32 bit home premium with latest versions of SageTV and Placeshifter. My Acer laptop has an Intel 945 express chipset. Placeshifter works fine on all my other machines.

I have downloaded and installed latest Intel 945 express driver (7.14.10.1504) but no change to problem.

Any help appreciated.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 01-23-2010, 09:42 AM
doc's Avatar
doc doc is offline
Sage Fanatic
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Leicester, England
Posts: 918
I had a similar problem with my ASUS laptop that had me stumped for about a year.

In the end I rebuilt it bit by bit testing Placeshifter as I went.

It turned out to the the 'ASUS Splendid' video utility. It loads itself on startup.

Once I removed that it worked fine. Do you have anything similar to that that loads itself?

Just a thought.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 01-23-2010, 09:56 AM
ianb ianb is offline
Sage Advanced User
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 77
Placeshifter - no picture with Interl 945 Express graphics chipset

Quote:
It turned out to the the 'ASUS Splendid' video utility. It loads itself on startup.

Once I removed that it worked fine. Do you have anything similar to that that loads itself?
I don't think I have this driver - where would I look to check?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 01-23-2010, 10:06 AM
doc's Avatar
doc doc is offline
Sage Fanatic
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Leicester, England
Posts: 918
Quote:
Originally Posted by ianb View Post
I don't think I have this driver - where would I look to check?
It's not part of the driver. It's a seperate utility.

Obviously you wont have an ASUS one, but there might be something in your startup folder. The ASUS utility puts a logo on the screen for a few seconds when you log in.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 01-23-2010, 10:12 AM
doc's Avatar
doc doc is offline
Sage Fanatic
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Leicester, England
Posts: 918
I've just had a browse of the Acer download site and there aren't any utils like this there so I'm probably pointing you in the wrong direction
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 02-08-2010, 02:09 AM
ianb ianb is offline
Sage Advanced User
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 77
Solution Found!

Quote:
Originally Posted by ianb View Post
I had placeshifter working on my Acer laptop until recently. Suddenly, I started placeshifter and and when I try to view TV etc. I get sound and no picture with an error message to the effect that there is a hardware incompatibility and my hardware does not support overlay.

I am using Vista 32 bit home premium with latest versions of SageTV and Placeshifter. My Acer laptop has an Intel 945 express chipset. Placeshifter works fine on all my other machines.

I have downloaded and installed latest Intel 945 express driver (7.14.10.1504) but no change to problem.

Any help appreciated.
I have discovered a cure for the Placeshifter problem:
Enter BIOS (F2 while booting)
Go to Advanced Tab
Scroll down to Video Memory setting - was set to "DVMT"
Changed video memory setting to "128MB"
Exit bios - opting to save settings

Pleaceshifter again works perfectly!
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Picture Size - MVP vs. Placeshifter chip33az SageTV Linux 5 11-03-2009 03:05 PM
Placeshifter sound on but blank picture kenklose SageTV Placeshifter 0 04-06-2008 12:05 AM
Placeshifter Mac no picture karljayne SageTV Mac Edition 7 07-27-2007 11:01 AM
Placeshifter picture quality dtshedd SageTV Placeshifter 3 01-15-2007 08:06 AM
Placeshifter Losing Picture? RAlfieri SageTV Beta Test Software 0 04-25-2006 01:41 PM


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 12:19 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2023, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright 2003-2005 SageTV, LLC. All rights reserved.