External Display Plugin Crashes When Trying to Configure

[gl1970]

Area: Installation Support
MP Version: 0.2
Skin: Blue Two
Windows Version: XP Pro SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Memory: 512MB DDR Kingston
Motherboard Chipset: ASUS A7V400
Video Card: nVidia GeForce2
Video Card Driver: Latest WHQL nVidia
Video Card Resolution: 800x600, 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9
Video Codec Type & Version: ?
Audio Codec Type & Version: ?
TV Card: Hauppage WinTV PVR-500MCE
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: Latest Hauppage
Other: iMON IR/VFD

Synopsis: Configuration program crashes when trying to setup External Display Plugin
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I receive an error from Windows that the configuration program has experienced and 'exception' and that I can close or continue. continuing allows me to return to the configuration program but not edit the settings for the display plugin.

The iMON VFD display and remote both work when using the manufacturer's software but I have been unable to test it with Media Portal since I am unable to set it up.

Any suggestions that can be offered would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Tech Geek]

Turn off the plugin.
Reboot the computer and do not load MediaPortal!
Enable the plugin.
Set it to the proper iMon config.

I think part of MediaPortal was still resident in memory and was causing my crash. YMMV

[gl1970]

No luck--I still get the same result. :-( Thanks for trying though. :-)

[Jag]

Originally Posted by gl1970

No luck--I still get the same result. :-( Thanks for trying though. :-)

Did you upgrade the iMON software on your computer recently ? I used a quite old iMON software version (the version that came with my LC-16M case) and I experienced the same crash as you did. However, the problem disappeared after I uninstalled the old iMON software and installed version 4.50.1227 instead (afterwards I upgraded to 4.51.0202 which should be the latest version at the moment).

You can download 4.50.1227 here:

http://www.soundgraph.com/iMON/downl..._4_50_1227.zip

and the upgrade to 4.51.0202 is here:

http://www.soundgraph.com/iMON/downl...202_Update.zip

[gl1970]

Hi again,

I just did a complete reinstall on the system... The latest drivers/software for everything and still I am unable to access the configuration screen for the External Display plugin. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

Thanks again.

[gl1970]

Thanks for the replies, I installed the latest CVs (mediaportal-cvs-03-15-2006--01-06.rar) and it seems to have done the trick--the display seems to be working properly. Now I just have to figure out what's changed. ;-)

Thanks again.