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<blockquote data-quote="Groovemaize" data-source="post: 1040169" data-attributes="member: 144746">Hi, I'm new here so please be gentle!! I know I may have posted this in the wrong place so appologise in advance if I have. I have a fairly comprehensive Media Centre network that has run for well for the past 7 years but want full HD streaming live tv and so have chosen media portal as the new platform. I'm currently building a media portal network where I have a Win 8.1 32bit client running MP 1.5.0 and a Vista 32bit TVserver, unfortunately each time the client boots into MP it hangs just before fully loading. If I point the client to my other Win 7 64bit tvserver it works fine.&nbsp;I'm in the process of making the vista machine a dedicated tvserver located in the loft and will probably instal Win 8 on it but am still in the process of setting up the intial client before buying further clients and new server hardware.&nbsp;Do I have to have the server on Win7/8 for it to work with a win 8 client?&nbsp;Any help would be great &nbsp;Cheers&nbsp;Groovemaize</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Groovemaize, post: 1040169, member: 144746"] Hi, I'm new here so please be gentle!! I know I may have posted this in the wrong place so appologise in advance if I have. I have a fairly comprehensive Media Centre network that has run for well for the past 7 years but want full HD streaming live tv and so have chosen media portal as the new platform. I'm currently building a media portal network where I have a Win 8.1 32bit client running MP 1.5.0 and a Vista 32bit TVserver, unfortunately each time the client boots into MP it hangs just before fully loading. If I point the client to my other Win 7 64bit tvserver it works fine. I'm in the process of making the vista machine a dedicated tvserver located in the loft and will probably instal Win 8 on it but am still in the process of setting up the intial client before buying further clients and new server hardware. Do I have to have the server on Win7/8 for it to work with a win 8 client? Any help would be great Cheers Groovemaize [/QUOTE]

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