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I've been trying to for over a week to resolve my Bufering and Freeezing issue..I've tried every option imagineable and nothing...I even purchased Assassin's guide and it was really a great help! I've uninstalled\reinstalled xbmc several times as well. I did notice on the "o" option settings I was able to see that my vcpu was running anywhere from 70-100% on certain movies (avatar) but still no freezing connected via VGA. But then....I connected my rig to my plasma via hdmi and whamo...the issue was back. I tried different hdmi cables everything. I'm running a.AMD A6-3500 Llano 2.1GHz (2.4GHz Max Turbo) Socket FM1 65W Triple-Core with 8 GBs of RAM. The only thing I haven't done and I'm going to try tonight is see if the issue occurs with locally played files. My movies are being played from a external 3TB western digital usb 2.0 drive.
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Thanks bluray! I will give this a go tonight and report back!
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Thanks owen! I'm take a look at this one also. In my searches I ran across the hard drive going to sleep problem, I actually went into the power settings and told the HDs not to hibernate. Maybe this vid will give me more options.
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Okay bluray...I tried everything you mentioned and I actually got some good results. The buffering and freezing was a lot better. But ultimately, it was still there. Avatar was doing it the most so I copied it to my local SSD drive and I had no issues watching the movie, there was no buffering or freezing. So unfortunately I'm starting to think it may be the external drive.
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2012-09-20, 06:11
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-20, 06:13 by newoski.)
RMAs are a beautiful thing
RMAs are a beautiful thing
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Is this a new drive?
That A75 motherboard has eSATA. I'd look into getting an eSATA external drive if you can return the other one. If not, you could think about cracking it and putting it in an eSATA enclosure. YMMV, there.
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unfortunately guys its an old drive....had it almost 2 years. It really appears that the drive just can't keep up. I'm gonna check WD for firmware. This is good news for me!!!!