MP Hangs on Startup (1 Viewer)

[Westley]

Installed MediaProtal for the first time yesterday, on a relatively old machine (5YO - see specs below).

Setup went fine. Double-click the MediaPortal icon, and I get the splash screen. When it gets to loading "texture manager", it just stays there forever, using 100% CPU and sometimes accessing the HDD. I saw a thread here saying it's a service thing, but I checked my services and they are all running fine. I disabled Remote Registry, System Restore, and Indexing when I installed Windows, but even when I enable them the problem remains. The only way to close MP is to use Task Manager. Help!

TIA,
Westley.

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: Default
Windows Version: XP Pro, all patches included, .NET 3.0
CPU Type: Duron 2000+
Memory: 256MB

 

[The_Stig]

Hi and welcome Westley,

do you have .NET 2 installed too? This is necessary afaik. Try that and if it doesnt help then please post your log (from \program files\team mediaportal\mediaportal\log\mediaportal.log) to pastebin.team-mediaportal.com.

Then we'll see what we can do

Regards,

Paloema

 

[Westley]

Hi, and thanks for the prompt reply!

Yes, I have .NET 2 - it's under \windows\microsoft.net along with 1.1 and 3. Any way I can see which one is "dominant"? IIRC, .NET 2 and above should "play nice" with earlier versions and run the appropriate VM according to the executable's requirements (I come from C++ background, with some C# knowledge)

Posted the log to the pastebin, looks like the last thing it does is load strings from an XML file. When I installed MP, I tried Hebrew interface first, and when I got the first hang I changed to English. I checked, and both XML files - Hebrew and English - exist. I saved a SysInfo log, in case you'd like to have a look. Let me know if you need it, or any other information.

Thanks again,
Westley.

 

[fromnyny]

i'm having the same problem and i dont know what to do. can anyone help?

 

[Westley]

I (sort of) solved it, I think...

I had 256MB of RAM and a Prophet 4500 graphics card (based of Kyro 2 chipset) - it's an old (6 YO) machine I converted to a media center.

I finally bought 512MB of RAM and added that to the PC. On the same day, a friend brought me his old NVidia GeForce 4 MX. I installed both, and voila! Everything works!

Logically, it shouldn't have mattered - RAM and virtual memory should be the same, as far as applications go. Same for graphics - the drivers should take care of everything, especially in a non-3D app. So I still don't have a clue why it happened, I can only suggest that you try a different graphics card or add some RAM (can you borrow those?)

Good luck!
W.

 

[fromnyny]

Westley, Thank you!!!

i got a new video card and it did the trick. i'm lovin this program, it's awesome.

many thanks again!

-fromnyny