MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

Yesterday my pc welcomed me with a blue screen including the the failure: page_fault_in_nonpaged_area

Somehow it has problems with my ati Drivers so i had to restart,... and switch harddisks (since somehow windows change them) and after some hard works (hours and hours, some restarts in safe mode and ubuntu) i was able to get windows loading again...

I deinstalled all software i installed lately, downgraded my ati driver to a version which worked over some months and updatet my chipset and bios... and nothing worked..

All i was able was to change the message to a machine_check_exception... Googling about it i found out it could be with jre or daemon tools or something else...
Of course there was also some information that the harddisc may be defect, but since it was more or less new i did not think about that it could be a problem...

But since i had the same drive again (i had them working as raid 1 until some months ago) i mirrored the defect disc to it and restarted with the new drive...

No problems anymore.. now i finally found out why i had so much trouble running them as raid ...

hdcp compliant

I feel like in a humorous story.. well all you can do at a certain point is just laugh.

Some months ago i bought a new Sapphire X1600 Graphic Card (ATI), a HDMI cable and an Adapter for DVI to HDMI so i could connect my Beamer to the Card through HDMI.

Both, Beamer and Graphic Card can HDTV so why don't use it.. that were my thoughts... but in reality nothing works as expected. All i was able to get is 800x600 and that's not funny.

So i first asked ATI (in the Support Ticket function which registration is a hard try itself) and they told me (after some typiing) to ask the Beamer manufacturer.

Ok i asked Panasonic (since i have a PT AE 700) how i can resolve this and they told me the Beamer can HDTV but only with HDCP and therefore the Card has to be HDCP compliant.

Good argument, i thought so i went back to ATI who returned: The Cards are not HDCP compliant... *grrr*
Ok, looked again at Sapphire's site and voila there is some misterous sentence which does not really say it can HDCP but it also does not say it can't... so i asked Sapphire about it.

They told me that the ASIC (chipset) is compliant but the firmware not and i have to asked another company about it... ?? what the heck??

Ok, let's just asked for fun how it is going to end:
I asked if there is a way for a standard user (please without soldering gun) to update the firmware and the first reaction was that sapphire lacks of the licence and they will ask them if they want to buy it first...

?What?? I don't quite understand.. but then i got another answer:

I checked with HKG and they said that to-date the drivers are still not yet compliant. Hopefully future drivers will resolve, we have been promised for over a year now.

Now i had to laugh since HDCP is the reason for the movie companies to use HDTV and therefore every peace of equipment has to be HDCP compliant.. all but not the graphic cards..

One more note: ATI told me that the only product they have released so far which is HDCP compliant is the X1950 series cards.. (do they have got the new firmware?)