Re: IR Blaster Problem

From: GOMCE (Chris_Feduniw_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:48:27 -0800

Barb,

My power settings are currently set to "energy star" with
Turn Monitor off = 20 min
Turn H/D off = 25 min
Standyb = 1 hr

I'll try setting it to "always on" and see what happens.

As for your other question ...I'm running Symantec Internet Security 6.04.35
and Norton Antivirus 9.05.15

HP Support suggested I try applying the following patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6563dea6-fac0-4604-9418-f20640cc7a20&displaylang=en

which I applied last Sunday. Since then I have not recieved the "tuner not
found" error but I'm now getting this error:

"Video Error: Files needed to display video are not installed or not working
correctly. Please restart Media Center and/or restart the computer"

or this error:

the IR Blaster will not change the channel on my set-top box .. see 2/17/05
post/thread "recording wrong channel" from "media man" in the newgroup
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&query=IR&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter&p=1&tid=00621326-d608-48d9-829d-71bb8aeb1bc2

Like always a restart of the computer solves the problem but this constant
issue of having the IR USB remote fail is making using the Media Center PC
as a PVR un-reliable

I've also experienced the same problems after I upgraded to MCE 2005 as
listed in this post

Media Center 2005 - IR blasters are totaly unhelpful! in Windows Media
Center Discussion posted 11/27/04
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&query=IR&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter&p=1&tid=2ed656ec-c2e7-4e74-92bd-791b95692cb9&mid=2ed656ec-c2e7-4e74-92bd-791b95692cb9

Bottom line is the IR Blaster appears to have all the same issues that it
had when I first got my HP 864 with MCE 2002. When I upgraded to MCE 2004
the IR Blaster reliability got signficantly better with less than 10% of my
programs not recording correctly. Since going to MCE 2005 some IR Blaster
problem occurs at least every few days requiring me to unplug/replug the IR
USB cable or reboot the PC.

I really don't think I'm alone in reporting IR Blaster problems .. just do
a search for "IR" in the MS Media Center and TheGreenButton.com newsgroup
and you will see lot's of examples of problems users are experiencing since
MCE 2005.

I look forward to your suggestions for how to "prevent" these errors from
occuring at least when they do occur it is really easy to fix :) Again,
I'll try the "always on" power mode and let you now how it goes.

Thanks,
Chris

"Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]" <barb@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:orfb119830b2822vilcrve6jp4f9tvo97o@4ax.com...
> What are your power management settings? Can you set up your machine
> to use NO power management (always on ) to see if this issue goes
> away?
>
> Also, what anti virus are you using? I've seen scattered reports of
> issues with McAfee and S3 standby.
>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:20:29 -0800, "GOMCE" <Chris_Feduniw@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Since going on MCE 2005 last week I'm having several programs not record
>>due
>>to a
>>
>>"A tuner failure occured and no other tuners were available at the time of
>>recording"
>>
>>A simple unplug/replug of the IR Blaster USB cable or a reboot of the PC
>>solves the problem but that doesn't do me any good
>>if I'm away from my PC and MCE is scheduled to record a show.
>>
>>Anyone else having this problem and/or have suggestions how to prevent it.
>>
>>I'm running on an HP 864 with 1 GB of RAM
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris
>>
>>
>
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