tv tunner in media center

Ex_Brit · 12 Dec 2008

That's too bad, sorry I don't have any suggestions on that one. Let's just hope the actual beta's arrive soon.

chinga69 · 12 Dec 2008

you will have to reinstall win7 to get it working again

DiamondNRG · 12 Dec 2008

chinga69 said:

you will have to reinstall win7 to get it working again

And then it will just break again after running it once? I heard the BSOD had something to do with UAC, but I don't really want to turn it off completely (I have it on low) but I will if it will mean that Media Center will not crap out. Do you have any more information on this? Can I do a repair of win7 from the installer to fix it? (not trying to be lazy, just efficient).

chinga69 · 12 Dec 2008

DiamondNRG said:

Hello all... my media center doesn't work at all. The first time it worked great, then i closed it and win7 blue screened. Had to do a system restore as it trashed my explorer.exe file. Now media center crashes instantly as soon as I try to open it. Any suggestions? I want to get it working as I just bought a remote and was going to get a tuner card (also would like all of your opinions as to the best one --- do note I have an ATI vid card).

Thanks for any advice on fixing Media Center and/or suggesting tuner cards.

what were you doing before it bsd

1 you could try to restore to another restore point again
2 you could try repairing it with the disk

DiamondNRG · 12 Dec 2008

It happened right after installing, I only had 1 restore point before that. And all I did was "exit" media center after viewing part of a dvd on a local hard drive.

chinga69 · 12 Dec 2008

sorry quickest fix will be reinstall

cheers brad

darkassain · 12 Dec 2008

DiamondNRG said:

It happened right after installing, I only had 1 restore point before that. And all I did was "exit" media center after viewing part of a dvd on a local hard drive.

where you able to catch the BSOD codes and the message???

here the info to get the stop message...

https://www.sevenforums.com/network-i....html#post6992

can you post it up?

scrooge · 13 Dec 2008

i was able to get it running after doing this.
reformated my drive and installed win 7 again.
then i installed ffdshow ( i think the last time
i used x64Components_v152) .downloaded the drivers
for the tunner card installed them in device manager
(last time i just ran the app to install them).rebooted
the system then ran media center . still got the playready
error but this time the video and sound works it's still working .
btw what is (playready) cause after i was done and everything
was working fine i got a message in media center asking if i"d like
to intall playready now. i clicked no .
scrooge

Ex_Brit · 13 Dec 2008

I think that Playready thing is in beta anyway so probably isn't worth worrying about. Glad you've got WMC working.

smarteyeball · 13 Dec 2008

It says playready is for premium TV, so Cable/Satellite/PayTV programming?