- Dec 1, 2013
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I have a HP Pavilion a7650t that is 4.5 years old. We have been using it as a DVR to record over the air tv signals. It worked well for the first 3.5 years and has had problems providing a smooth video signal for the last year. It did work for quite a while when our TV stations converted to HD. The TV signal is not choppy when watching with antenna connected directly to TV- so the signal is good.
It has an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 (2.93 GHz/1066 MHz 3 MB) L2 cache; 4 GB DDR2 PC2-6400; GeForce 9500 GS (use hdmi); Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme audio; Hauppauge HVR-2250 (8880) and a Panasonic Plasma HDTV (with HDMI). OS is Win7 64x and we use WIndows Media Center. We did a thorough cleaning of the interior of the PC today and that did not help, even though there was a fair amount of dust covering the heat sink and on the fan.
We are hoping we can just replace the video card with an updated card that does better with the High Definition signals (and power if needed- only has 300 W)
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Cindy
It has an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 (2.93 GHz/1066 MHz 3 MB) L2 cache; 4 GB DDR2 PC2-6400; GeForce 9500 GS (use hdmi); Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme audio; Hauppauge HVR-2250 (8880) and a Panasonic Plasma HDTV (with HDMI). OS is Win7 64x and we use WIndows Media Center. We did a thorough cleaning of the interior of the PC today and that did not help, even though there was a fair amount of dust covering the heat sink and on the fan.
We are hoping we can just replace the video card with an updated card that does better with the High Definition signals (and power if needed- only has 300 W)
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Cindy
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