Serviio

Hi all.... wonder if anyone might know whats causing this?

Everytime I start the Serviio console up, my graphics card crashes! This started a while ago now, after installing 1.3 I think it was. I thought at first it might be a flash player problem. I wasn't sure initially what was causing it. I downloaded the "fix" from the Microsoft site, and everything has been fine.

So I come to open Serviio console for the first time since then, and CRASH! The screen goes blank for a few seconds, comes back with a message down the bottom saying "Graphics card had stopped responding and has now restarted" The mouse cursor disappears, and the screen goes blank every ten seconds or so. Fan speed increses, and I can only do one "action" (like closing a window or starting task manager) in between each screen blanking.

Has anyone else experienced this? Loved Serviio previously as it was so nice and simple to use, but this is really starting to annoy me now! Thanks everyone.

E2A:

Graphics card - Radeon HD5670
Computer - i5 with 8 gb of ram.

Serviio service seems to work ok, it's just the console that seems to give me greif!

What "fix" did you download? Microsoft aren't responsible for Flash so not sure what you downloaded.

What version of Catalyst are you on? It's the graphics driver that is crashing, it might tell you something about the reason why in the Event Viewer (Control Panel, Admin Tools, Event Viewer).

I believe your gfx card is EOLed now though so I'm not sure whether it's supported by AMD now?

I'm using ye olde Intel onboard gfx and a far older PC and have no issues so it's more likely to be coincidence and you have an issue wih your setup.

It might also help to tell us what OS you're using etc etc.

The "fix" was adjusting the TDLR time in the registry. Didn't work.

Anyhoos, after researching the thousands of threads on the internet on this subject (that I have since discovered) the main thing that all these people with the same problem had in common, was the chipset of the GFX card. It seems like the same/similar drivers for AMD/ATI/Sapphire graphics cards.

So I bit the bullet and bought an Nvidia GT640.... problem solved! Sod ATI stuff from now on, their hardware has caused me troubles in the past.