Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Media Center

The Media Center PC we use in Millville first decided not to load the TV program guide and then started to "blue screen" and reboot repeatedly. Last Friday I attacked it with an arsenal of software. Wiped the disk and reloaded everything.

I was glad to have the original disks from Gateway with all the drivers. It would have been just that much more tedious if I'd had to go looking for each of them individually. The worst part was getting the codec installed. The program didn't like the one that came on the CD so I used DirectShow Decoder Filter and the video is perfect.

It now downloads the guide without problem but I don't think I have the right one. I know Comcast is in the midst of doing a channel re-alignment so it's possible that the guide I have either leads or lags the update. I'll look into it in more detail this coming weekend.

Right now the box is stable and my fingers are crossed.

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