Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="moab" data-source="post: 329252" data-attributes="member: 73157">I just check your logs. It looks like you have plugins installed. I don't install any plug-ins until after I have the basic set up working. Keep in mind that these are not always updated to work with new releases of MP. If you install them then it can corrupt your fresh install. You should be trying to eliminate the variables that might introduce problems. Your keywords are bare bones, plain vanila and boiler plate until you have the basic install working. My approach is to start simple then layer on the complexity after a successful burn in period. I have a fresh XP install followed by MP. I don't monkey with the codecs.Install and configure no extras and only default install options. I also saw that your SQL Express database password was not default &quot;mediaportal&quot; so there is another deviation from the norm. Essentially I install RC3 doing no changes from default. I then go into configure tv server, it does an inital SQL test and prompts to start the service. That's it. I then reboot just because its windows. I would stay well away from EPG as it causes nothing but trouble for me and I have never gotten it to work.However that said it sounds like your ATI card was not supported in MP which is suprising.Very odd that the ATI junk didn't even work out of the box with the card it came with.Let me know how the Hauppauge card works out for you. I use Windows XP MCE 2005 and you use standard XP so that is one difference. However I don't think this is an issue anymore with MP.Good luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moab, post: 329252, member: 73157"] I just check your logs. It looks like you have plugins installed. I don't install any plug-ins until after I have the basic set up working. Keep in mind that these are not always updated to work with new releases of MP. If you install them then it can corrupt your fresh install. You should be trying to eliminate the variables that might introduce problems. Your keywords are bare bones, plain vanila and boiler plate until you have the basic install working. My approach is to start simple then layer on the complexity after a successful burn in period. I have a fresh XP install followed by MP. I don't monkey with the codecs. Install and configure no extras and only default install options. I also saw that your SQL Express database password was not default "mediaportal" so there is another deviation from the norm. Essentially I install RC3 doing no changes from default. I then go into configure tv server, it does an inital SQL test and prompts to start the service. That's it. I then reboot just because its windows. I would stay well away from EPG as it causes nothing but trouble for me and I have never gotten it to work. However that said it sounds like your ATI card was not supported in MP which is suprising. Very odd that the ATI junk didn't even work out of the box with the card it came with. Let me know how the Hauppauge card works out for you. I use Windows XP MCE 2005 and you use standard XP so that is one difference. However I don't think this is an issue anymore with MP. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

Verification