Quick Fire Windows 7 Question (1 Viewer)

[mattaus]

Hi all,

I tried searching the forums for an answer but the search function returns such random responses it hurts my head lol. Maybe I should learn how to query better

Anyway...I'm having major problems with XP on my HTPC (namely a failure to install my wireless card thats driving me up the wall). I tried re-installing XP but now I get a dll error that I cant seem to fix. I'm busy seeing if the Windows 7 beta will install and it will. If I wipe XP and install W7 I have to start everything from scratch which isn't the issue - it's more that if W7 does not work with MP properly I have to try and install XP again which IS a problem.

Everything is working fine for MP under XP as we speak, I just cant get the wireless card working and having just spent $60 on it I'm not too keen on letting it gather dust while I run an ugly network cable to my TV cabinet!

And yes I think re-installing XP will fix the wireless problem because (despite the warnings) I used a stripped down version of XP.

So are there any issues with W7 I should be aware of? Does everything work? Or will I spend more time fixing than using my HTPC if I follow this path???

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

- Matt.

 

[JackTramiel]

First of all Windows 7 is still beta and not supported by MP for now. Bugreports for example might not help.
And most likely if you buy hardware today it should run better with xp then windows 7.
Not that i would recommend you not to try W7, but i would try to find the problem with the device first.

What exactly is the problem? Why cant you install it? What error msg you get? What errorcode shows up in the device manager? Did you try other pci ports? Latest chipset drivers? etc etc. I would start with questions like that.
What if it doesnt work with windows 7?

The reason you did not find something using the search function might be that this is no mp based issue. I did not see threads with such questions very often, but i am sure there will be a solution.

Please post your hardware specs also. Maybe someone uses similiar hardware and can easily help you.

 

[mattaus]

Some very solid points....

Due to a 4 day weekend here in Australia and the rain keeping me indoors for the bulk of the weekend I decided to go with W7 anyway. Try as I might I could not get XP to re-install.

Everything is working fantastically thus far. The wireless card has no issues so I'm obviously confident that the problem was driver related - that been said the install disc not working on one PC but functioning fine on anoither is odd. If I have problems with W7 I'll try XP again. I hav'nt had a chance to test the TV service yet but I'm not a power user by any stretch and so far all the goods work.

My hardware is all fairly new apart from my CPU. asus M3N HDMI motherboard, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 1.5TB of hdd space spread over 2 seperate drives. DVD for optical, TV card etc. not a lot to it. I know my build is fine as I do this all the time.

Like I said W7 seems to be holding up so far as its imported and running all my movies, TV shows, music, photos and feeds without a hitch. I'll get round to testing the TV service soon. fingers crossed.

 

[AlienAndy]

Some very solid points....

Due to a 4 day weekend here in Australia and the rain keeping me indoors for the bulk of the weekend I decided to go with W7 anyway. Try as I might I could not get XP to re-install.

Everything is working fantastically thus far. The wireless card has no issues so I'm obviously confident that the problem was driver related - that been said the install disc not working on one PC but functioning fine on anoither is odd. If I have problems with W7 I'll try XP again. I hav'nt had a chance to test the TV service yet but I'm not a power user by any stretch and so far all the goods work.

My hardware is all fairly new apart from my CPU. asus M3N HDMI motherboard, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 1.5TB of hdd space spread over 2 seperate drives. DVD for optical, TV card etc. not a lot to it. I know my build is fine as I do this all the time.

Like I said W7 seems to be holding up so far as its imported and running all my movies, TV shows, music, photos and feeds without a hitch. I'll get round to testing the TV service soon. fingers crossed.

Good luck to you mate. I miss my media portal as I'm now having to use Windows Media Centre in Windows 7 due to the Microsoft Remote not working fully on the menus. Looking forward to the day when media portal is made fully compatible with Windows 7. ( Windows 7 is being released in the next 2 months! )

 

[mattaus]

Yeah cheers. I only just started getting the remote going yesterday so it may throw upa few surprises for me, but then again im using the crappy remote that came with my TV card and some key mapping software.

Annoyingly switching to windows 7 was supposed to fix the wireless card problem - and it did - for 3 days. I booted my machine up over the weekend with NO changes made to the system at all and it suddenly was'nt working again. even re-installs failed to fix it. I'm probably going to give up and go wired

 

[happy]

what is the model of your wireless card?

 

[mattaus]

A Netgear WPN-311. But I had exactly the same problem with a D-Link DW420 before that. This suggests to me its the motherboard but its odd that the TV card works fine in either slot, so why can't the wireless card and also that it works perfectly one day and then not at all the next.

Driving me insane and no one can explain why. Im sure stumped.

 

[happy]

could you give me the full spec of your pc, and driver version for your chipset and wireless card

 

[mattaus]

I can tell you right now what components it has, but drivers will have to wait a day or two until at my house again (I'm usually away all weekend...)

Asus M3N78-EMH HDMI
AMD 4200+
Seagate 160GB SATA II HDD
Western Digital 1TB SATA II HDD
Compro DTV Tuner
Netgear WPN-311 Wireless Card
A-Data 2GB DDR2 RAM
Pioneer DVD-RAM Drive connected via eSATA.
Some random PSU.

Video is on board nVidia 8200.

Um..cant seem to think of anything else at this stage. Guess it's worth noting that one of the USB ports on the motherboard does not work - but that happened after I started having the problems with the wireless card and was definitely a result of me getting a screwdriver stuck in it (don't ask lol).

 

[happy]

well getting a screwdriver stuck is never a good point, can you test your wirless card in another pc or anything because xp drivers are available for that card as they are for vista and windows 7, do you use the utility that comes with netgear drivers to control the wireless or the inbuilt windows one?