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Hmmm.. EPG playing up. Noticed over the last few weeks that several program entries across all channels are replaced with a ? (question mark). Am using Oztivo listings in Central Vic postcode 3550. Thought I would try FreeEPG instead but now I get a Critical Process Failure reported by MC. The guide download fails with a File Validation error - mismatched guide package error 20. This is happening for both Oztivo and FreeEPG.
I have tried all known setup methods including re-running MCE setup which results in error code 3. I have even donn a System restore to a time when things did work, to no avail. Uninstalled Free EPG and reinstalled, no luck.
Any ideas?
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CASE: Silverstone LC16M Black, MoBo: Intel DP35DP, CHIPSET: Intel P35, CPU: Intel Q6600 quad core, RAM: 2gb DDR2, OS: VMC SP1, HD: 3 x 250gb SATA, TUNERS: x 4 2 x Nova T 500 GRAPHICS:MSI NX8600GT 256mb heat pipe, 174.12 drv, VMC Decoder USB: 12in1card reader, USER INPUT: BTC 9019 URF KB/stick mouse, MCE Remote OPTICAL: Sony DL DVDRW, AUDIO: SPDIF to Pioneer A/V receiver to 5 spks + Active Wintal sub.DISPLAY: 40" Hyundai LCD TV, DVI - HDMI @ 1920 x 1080
Possible workaround for Media Center guide download error code 20
Our development team has found a possible root cause and workaround for error code 20 that may appear when trying to download television guide data in Media Center 2005. The guide download error code article I previously published describes error code 20 as a file validation error, possibly caused by a mismatched guide package. Previously, the only recommended workaround was to try downloading guide data again later.
We got a hold of a machine that was displaying error code 20, and the developer debugged and found the failure resulted from a call to a cryptographic API that is used to decode guide data (which is downloaded in an encrypted format). For some reason we don't fully understand yet, this API returns a set of permissions that don't permit the guide data file to be opened correctly.
This workaround that we used to resolve this issue is the following:
1) Log onto the computer as a user with Administrator privileges
2) Close Media Center
3) Navigate to the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys folder
4) Delete the file that starts with 1c93d682e65b0f3af0cd51385becba5e_
5)Restart Media Center and try to download television guide data again
Error code 20 is being caused by one of the machine keys in that folder, but it appears to be a different key on each computer that hits this problem.
you're a legend.. thank you. Guide data now working. I don't kjnow what caused this as clearly nobody else seems to,but it just stopped working one day. The only thing that iI can connect to this is installing an AV product. But who knows, and thanks again.
WAF is skyhigh again
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CASE: Silverstone LC16M Black, MoBo: Intel DP35DP, CHIPSET: Intel P35, CPU: Intel Q6600 quad core, RAM: 2gb DDR2, OS: VMC SP1, HD: 3 x 250gb SATA, TUNERS: x 4 2 x Nova T 500 GRAPHICS:MSI NX8600GT 256mb heat pipe, 174.12 drv, VMC Decoder USB: 12in1card reader, USER INPUT: BTC 9019 URF KB/stick mouse, MCE Remote OPTICAL: Sony DL DVDRW, AUDIO: SPDIF to Pioneer A/V receiver to 5 spks + Active Wintal sub.DISPLAY: 40" Hyundai LCD TV, DVI - HDMI @ 1920 x 1080
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you're a legend.. thank you. Guide data now working. I don't kjnow what caused this as clearly nobody else seems to,but it just stopped working one day. The only thing that iI can connect to this is installing an AV product. But who knows, and thanks again.
