[Hampster]

My Experience with SP1

Hi all I have been putting it off for several weeks but I decided today to install SP1 Stand Alone gold code on my very Stable Media Centre. It took a long time to get it to this point so any change to my system I am always very worried about what might happen.

On a positive note the upgrade was very smooth took about 45 mins and at the end the media Centre came up and all looked good. For a minute there I was actually very impressed of how smooth it had gone but it didnt take long for me to loose that warm and fuzzy feeling.

I have the Dvico DVB-T duel head tuner and in the past have experienced some of the problems I have seen others document error code 10 etc. But that was a while ago and all have been good for a few months.

Well not any more

I now only have one tuner head available in media centre. I looked in device manager and the two heads are there looking good device working normally. No errors or Warnings
ok I can live with this for a day until my girl friend wants to watch some crap that I hate and then I am going to be stuck watching dancing and reality TV.

Next EPG in Sydney has been working great since my media centre went in.
Well not any more. Channel 2 seemed to be fine but all other channels had ? marks and I have seen the article on the Reg Keys to change and no it didnt help.

Si I went and remapped the guide Channel 10 and 7 started to work better and some of the programs came up. But Channel 9 had a few things displaying but most were ? marks.
So after messing around for about an hr and not really getting anywhere I decided to go outside and ride my bike. I was gone for about 2 hours when I got back I had another look at the Progam Guide and to my delight a lot of the Channels had returned. I was happy until the 7am Morning show started to record and its 7pm ..... WTF...

I noticed the program guide is now 12 hours out of sync. So I did a quick sanity check to check my computers system clock. Its time synced so I didnt expect a miracle even if it is easter sunday. So the EPG is now toast.

I have 2 decisions to make now do I go back to pre SP1 or do I have a week of pain to fix these problems.

hope someone has some answers. The tuner issue is a bit of a concern because I havent seen this one before where it all looks good in device manager but doesnt work in MCE. Is there a easy way to debug this..

I advise anyone thinking of upgrading to take their time and make sure you have a backup of your current system, Before you make your move. It disapoints me that these problems sneak through BETA testing. I have a very standard Hardware config nothing out of the ordinary so I would have thought that these issues should not happen.

Cheers
Phil