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.
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 since discovered this had nothing to do with the SP1 update it was related to a problem at FreeEPG over easter
See link for details
http://forum.epgstream.net/viewtopic...186&p=509#p509
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 have since found the solution to this shutdown and power off your Media Centre at the wall then restart it. Problem went away.
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.
I have now resolved all the issues media centre is working well.
Cheers
Phil