Captain Gadget
11th Feb 2009, 19:22
Hi all
I'm having some fun and games setting up Vista (Home Premium) Media Center on my daughter's new PC, and I wonder if any of you ladies and gentlemen could assist.
(I can hear the laughter from here...!)
Basically, the machine is connected to a home wireless network via a Belkin N ADSL modem router. The only other PC permanently connected to the network -via Ethernet - is my own PC which runs Vista Ultimate and on which Media Center works just fine. All network shares are available on the second PC and internet access via IE7 is fine.
That is, up to the point where I run the setup routine for Media Center. The internet connection test reports a working connection, but when I move on to the next step - downloading TV settings - I get a 'download failure' message.
Scanning for Freeview channels then takes an age. On my main PC (which is plugged in to the same aerial) I got 66 channels; on my daughter's PC only 25 (I rescanned this evening and got 6!). None of these channels provides a workable picture - stuttering still frames at best, sometimes none at all.
The TV Guide also fails to download, reporting 'Unknown Media Discovery Error 14'.
Further down the setup menu is an option 'Connect to Wireless Network'. I tried this out of desperation, since I knew that I was already connected to the network: however it reported that it was unable to connect due to my having entered an incorrect passkey. Repeated attempts to connect all produced the same result.
Now I'm beginning to sense a conspiracy here; no TV settings, no guide, no network even, within Media Center, but all fine and dandy on the same machine outside of it. Has anyone out there encountered this problem?
Don't have much hair left these days, but if I did I'd be tearing it out...any ideas/suggestions more than welcome.
Gadget :ok:
I'm having some fun and games setting up Vista (Home Premium) Media Center on my daughter's new PC, and I wonder if any of you ladies and gentlemen could assist.
(I can hear the laughter from here...!)
Basically, the machine is connected to a home wireless network via a Belkin N ADSL modem router. The only other PC permanently connected to the network -via Ethernet - is my own PC which runs Vista Ultimate and on which Media Center works just fine. All network shares are available on the second PC and internet access via IE7 is fine.
That is, up to the point where I run the setup routine for Media Center. The internet connection test reports a working connection, but when I move on to the next step - downloading TV settings - I get a 'download failure' message.
Scanning for Freeview channels then takes an age. On my main PC (which is plugged in to the same aerial) I got 66 channels; on my daughter's PC only 25 (I rescanned this evening and got 6!). None of these channels provides a workable picture - stuttering still frames at best, sometimes none at all.
The TV Guide also fails to download, reporting 'Unknown Media Discovery Error 14'.
Further down the setup menu is an option 'Connect to Wireless Network'. I tried this out of desperation, since I knew that I was already connected to the network: however it reported that it was unable to connect due to my having entered an incorrect passkey. Repeated attempts to connect all produced the same result.
Now I'm beginning to sense a conspiracy here; no TV settings, no guide, no network even, within Media Center, but all fine and dandy on the same machine outside of it. Has anyone out there encountered this problem?
Don't have much hair left these days, but if I did I'd be tearing it out...any ideas/suggestions more than welcome.
Gadget :ok: