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Kramer
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I know this moving horizontal ripple plagues quite a few PCTV Rave/Dscaler/PJ users.
For me the "foil sandwich" was useless, but I did find that earthing my digibox helped considerably.
However, I still suffered the occassional ripple.
But not anymore
As I'm watercooled now, & have my PC well OC'ed, I recently was "pushing" some of my BIOS settings.
So I actually decided to reduce my CPU speed & enable "spread spectrum" (this reduces EMF by "clipping" the peaks & troughs of the CPU clock cycles).
Result? Ripple completely gone
I've used Dscaler for about a week now, & not one sight of a ripple (well, I rebooted one night & disabled "spread spectrum" - ripple was back - so this has definately rid me of the problem.
So for all you HTPC users with capture cards & Dscaler, check you MB's BIOS setup.
AFAIK, this "spread spectrum" feature is a recent addition to MBs, but it's worth checking on any MB.
Hope this is useful for some.
For me the "foil sandwich" was useless, but I did find that earthing my digibox helped considerably.
However, I still suffered the occassional ripple.
But not anymore
As I'm watercooled now, & have my PC well OC'ed, I recently was "pushing" some of my BIOS settings.
So I actually decided to reduce my CPU speed & enable "spread spectrum" (this reduces EMF by "clipping" the peaks & troughs of the CPU clock cycles).
Result? Ripple completely gone
I've used Dscaler for about a week now, & not one sight of a ripple (well, I rebooted one night & disabled "spread spectrum" - ripple was back - so this has definately rid me of the problem.
So for all you HTPC users with capture cards & Dscaler, check you MB's BIOS setup.
AFAIK, this "spread spectrum" feature is a recent addition to MBs, but it's worth checking on any MB.
Hope this is useful for some.