Re: MCE TV and FM radio suddenly not working

If you can play DVD and previously recorded TV then there is nothing wrong
with your Decoder. The problem is with TV Tuner/Video Capture card driver.
You need to get the latest vesion of the MCE driver for this card from the
card vendors Website and install it.

"Valerie" <Valerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can view DVD's and previously recorded TV fine in MCE. It's just Live TV
and FM radio that are not working (but as I said previously I can view TV
through Windows Movie Maker, but no sound)

I am not as "techie" as most on this board. I don't know which decoder
I'm
using, how can I find out.

"Eric Baines" wrote:

When I had problems, I was told not to bother with a repair install as it
doesn't work. So I backed everything up, formatted the hard drive and
rebuilt
from scratch.

I took the opportunity to partition the hard disk and now keep periodic
disk
images of my system disk. It seems OK for the moment but MCE does seem
remarkably flaky.

As for the original problem, it sounds like WinDVD is having problems
too.
Which decoder are you using? Is it WinDVD? Can you watch DVDs in MCE? Or
any
old recorded TV from before the problem? Is it worth reinstalling your
DVD
decoder?

"SteRanCo" wrote:

I'm having much the same problem as Valerie. Had a weird meltdown a
couple
of months ago and while burning a cd. Computer totally froze up in
Nero and
I had to do a manual restart. Disk check ran when windows started up
and
deleted several dll files, one of which prevented explorer from even
running,
hence no windows. Did a repair install from my mce2005 disks and got
windows
running again without losing all my settings. But media center stopped
playing tv, giving me error messages about the tuner being in use by
some
other application, even though I have no other applications that use
the
tuner. Then tonight after finally getting the media center rollup 2 to
install, I tried the tv again. Got a couple of error messages when
media
center started up, then when I attempted to turn on the tuner, got the
dreaded black screen. Any ideas on fixes would be greatly appreciated.

"Valerie" wrote:

Gary, Thanks for your prompt response.

I had gone through "Settings", "TV", "Set Up TV Signal" several times
and
would get to the point to "Choose a working TV signal", which I set
correctly
at Channel 3 and just have the black screen and no sound.

Also, my remote does work correctly ... I can tell the channels
change on
the cable box.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

"Gary Tsang" wrote:

Try running the TV Signal Setup again through Media Center

Within MCE, goto Settings, TV, Set Up TV signal.

--
Gary Tsang
http://www.gtsang.com

Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Valerie" <Valerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an HP Media Center PC m1070n with the original Conexant
23880 tuner
card which had worked fine for 2 years. Suddenly, overnight,
about 2
weeks
ago, I now have only a black screen for Live TV and the FM radio
does not
work.

I hooked up the TV cable connection to a TV and it worked fine,
so it is
not
that. I also get a black screen with no audio when I attempt to
view on
InterVideo WinDVD creator; but I DO get TV video, but no audio
when
attempting to view in Windows movie maker, so it appears the TV
tuner is
functioning but not with Media Center.

I checked device manager and everything seems OK. I attempted to
update
the
drivers, but no update was available.

I did a System Restore for a month earlier, but that did not
solve the
problem. I also contacted HP customer service and they had
nothing to
suggest to help.

I checked the Conexant website and could find any updates or
downloads for
drivers.

Any suggestions. Thanks in advance for any help given.





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