MediaPortal.exe process hangs after upgrading to 1.4.0 Final (1 Viewer)

[yoavain]

I have a problem with MediaPortal 1.4.0.

I've tried upgrade, but MediaPortal.exe freezes on startup. Not only that it freezes, it cannot be killed.
Tried killing it with task manager. Tried taskkill.exe /f /im mediaportal.exe. Also tried using SysInternal's procexp.exe but process still hangs.

Had to do a full restart...

I also tried fresh install (I did leave the databases folder and the thumbs folder). This still happened.
I also ran the MediaPortal in debug mode. Still hangs. Logs are attached.
There's an exception regarding the TvService, but I don't think it's related since I did not have it installed in the 1.3.0 and in the first upgrade try. (After the fresh install, I did not configure the TvServer so the exception might be related to that.)

Anyway, there shouldn't be any reason that a process cannot be forcibly killed (unless it's driver related).

Thanks for your help,
Yoav

 

[yoavain]

(Updated system specs...)

 

[yoavain]

I think it's related to Nvidia drivers:

I have a deja vu from one of the first MP versions, which had issues with ATI drivers after starting using a new .Net function. (see FAQ)

I use Nvidia card. Does anyone of the developers have the latest 320.18 WHQL Nvidia drivers?

 

[yoavain]

Solved. (kind of...)

One of the following did the trick:

• Downgraded Nvidia drivers to 314.22 WHQL (after reading many post regarding issues with 320.18)
• Fresh install of MediaPortal 1.4.0 without TV Server
• Removed firewall rule for MediaPortal.exe and let it ask for permissions again (ESET) since it seems to be blocking it.

I will try again to install TV server sometime since I will need it soon.

Hope this helps someone else.

Yoav

 

[catavolt]

@yoavian: I also have NVidia 320.18 WHQL installed since some weeks now and no problems at all

 

[yoavain]

@yoavian: I also have NVidia 320.18 WHQL installed since some weeks now and no problems at all

Thanks! I've downgraded it because people reporting it killed their GPU. even in the official forum. here too.[DOUBLEPOST=1371718552][/DOUBLEPOST]I don't think it's the reason to my problem though...