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After spending many nights searching these forums, and trying many of the suggestions, i still have a couple of issues preventing my HTPC being a 'dream machine', and hope someone can point me as to where my problems lie. I am very happy with the win7 GUI and love the usability and wife...

Hi all, first time posting here and I'm hoping some of the more technically minded individuals here can help me identify the root cause of my problem. Not sure if this is in the right section please move this thread if it's in the wrong subforum. Right, the problem is that I can't seem to get...

Hi! I am trying to setup media center to watch live tv. I had no problems watching live tv on Vista before I upgraded to windows 7. When I get to the step in TV Setup that says "Downloading TV Setup Data" I get a message that states: Download Failure The new TV setup data could not be...

Hauppauge! WinTV-HVR-1600, Windows 7 RC and Media Center is giving me hard time. First it got stuck trying to download TV guide info, did a little searching and found out mcupdate.exe had to be working. I ended up creating a link on my desktop to "C:\Windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe -manual -nogc -p"...

I'me trying to play live tv with media center but when i start live tv it says harddisk full, but i have 200gb free. what can i do, this is bug and i don't know how to solve it. hope someone help me thanks

Hi there, I've been using the RC's for a few months now, loving it. But since installing RC2 I've run into a wall. I cannot watch live tv on my premium channels(in Canada, Movie Central most notably). Media Center plays for a few seconds, and then freezes, and displays a message that copying...

i just installed windows 7 rc and everything went as smooth as possible. my computer is a dell inspirion 530 with 4 gigs of ram, 160gb hard drive, Intel Core2 Duo processor E4300, and NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS graphics card. the main thing i wanted to try was the new improved media center. the...

Folks, I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV tuner. For some reason I can't see live TV on Media Center. It was giving me an error like about PlayReady and I installed PlayReady 1.0 and then 1.2. What it does is, it hangs when downloading TV setup data, guide info etc. The progress bar moves only...

i just got started using the media center on my pc to record tv programs .tried to use it today and i get an error saying "media center has stopped working" i cant watch live tv or watch anything i have recorded.i made sure my tv card is still working by downoadng a free version of sage tv and...

Hi all Win TV 6.0 (the application supplied by Hauppage) for watching TV doesn't work properly on W7 X-64. The device (USB HVR-900H tv stick) is normally really great for watching on Laptops etc. The driver actually works but the application doesn't -- won't tune channels. Hauppage is...

Hi, I am using Windows 7 Beta 1. I have a WinTV-HVR-900. I have successfully used this to view TV through Windows Media Center previously. However, after restarting the computer, clicking 'Live TV' gives me an error. I try to setup my TV signal again through 'Settings' in Windows Media Center...

Hello, AMD 64x2 3800+ 64-bit Win7 (Activated) 2gig DDR 400 ATI TV-Wonder 650 Pro PCI-E I have a old nforce 4 amd/sli Gigabyte K8N-Pro-SLI motherboard... using the latest BIOS that works (F9) dated in 2006... (F10) dated 2008, the board will not post) -- (and of course the latest motherboard...

i have an ati x300 card and vista home premium. it works fine besides this one glitch in media center. while watching tv shows live it randomly skips around video but not audio. like someone will be talking, the sound stays fine but the image of them moves through the frames forewards, then...