XP SP3 Killed my ASUS D22 - BEWARE

[barnsey_00]

Hi Folks,

I thought i'd share my disaster....

After installing the gremlin, and the reboot, starting up mce again, I get the following message....

Critical Process Failure - A critical media centre process has unexpectedly failed. if problems persist please restart your machine and try again or contact technical support. Code 3. OK.

followed by

Component registration failure - Some of the files needed to play radio or video are missing or corrupt. Media centre component registration may have failed. OK.

I also get the following on a external dialog outside MCE.

EHShell.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Service and have submitted it to MS.

I have had time to do two system rebuilds to confirm that this wasn't a once off. I think I might be left with doing a another rebuild and leaving SP3 off.... until it is forced by MS.

Has anyone else heard or seen this before.

[Nobes]

So I'm not the only one

I was stupid enough to touch my rock solid XPMCE install in the bedroom and install SP3.

Had the exact same problem and I had to restore to a previous time, however don't think it rolled back completly clean. I have tried it twice now.

I used the free Microsoft on line support. An e-mail was sent to me giving me a number and that someone will come back to me. They were nice enough to have a survey company send me an e-mail a few days later, asking if I was satisfied with their response now that my problem had been resolved. Naturally I didn't get a response so my survey remarks were rather negative

I've resigned to the fact that I will stay with SP2.

My Mobo is a DG956OT, see my second rig below.

[Nobes]

Good news is that I found a resolution........

Bad news is that it was a complete new install of Windows

Bit the bullet and did a fresh install last night. These are the steps I took:
Did the fresh install XPSP2 from Disk.

Installed Power DVD

Then went to the windows update and installed sp3 straight up (this was a mistake, but I'll expand later)

Then installed tuner card and graphics drivers.

MCE works perfectly now however......any updates that were not included in SP3 would not install on subsequent visits to windows update. After a bit of searching I found out that you should install all other updates prior to SP3 otherwise you may get this problem.

I did find a solution to it, it involves going into the command prompt window.

Hope this helps

[sweeper]

Hi, I had the same issues with SP3 breaking my MCE2005 but you don't need to do a fresh install. There are a couple of articles on the web about what you need to do - one of them is http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&p=188111.

Apparently SP3 breaks some .NET modules, and somehow the basic MCE 2005 processes handling live TV/Guide no longer register and hence give you the above errors. The basic process is
1 - download and reinstall .NET
2 - re-register the MCE 2005 by running medctrro.exe
3 - download and reinstall any updated graphics card drivers as SP3 breaks a few existing ones such as my ATI
4 - get Terminal Services working again

Step 2 didn't quite work perfectly for me but I managed to get the key process ehrecvr and ehsched by going into c:\windows\ehome and clicking on a "register" exe. I can't rememer exactly which one it was though and you may not need to do it. Anyway there are more detailed instructions and explanation around - such as Aaron Stebner's log.

Step 4 - I also had to redo the Terminal Services patch to enable multiple users on the HTPC. Google "mce 2005 terminal services" to find the appropriate DLL and the instructions to replace this on your machine. You will need to boot in safe mode to replace the DLL and then reboot back into normal mode.