What are the Challenges of Vista and GBPVR ?

[dshepherd]

I have recently upgraded to Vista and have had some "issues". However most are solved but I seem to have a really odd one where the software installs and seems to work except the following:

1) The recording service will not restart and gives a .net exception

2) When recording or using GBPVR to view live video the workstation can blue screen with a STOP 7E message.

Any thoughts or other issues that people have come accross with VISTA ?

The hardware is ASUS P5B mb, with a Core 2 Duo 6600, 2GB RAm and a Radeon 1950 XT video card.

Many thanks

David

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1) The recording service will not restart and gives a .net exception

How are you restarting it? It should restart fine when you click the 'ok' button in the config app (since the config app runs with elevated privileges). You probably cant restart it by right clicking on the GB-PVR tray app in Vista.

2) When recording or using GBPVR to view live video the workstation can blue screen with a STOP 7E message

This will be a driver issue with a piece of hardware you're using - most likely either video card or capture device drivers.

[dshepherd]

I actually have a Nova T USB2 TV Card, and the issue appears to be the following: Vista spots the device and loads some drivers without any third party cds. However this is when the issue seems to start. Using a reference from the Hauppauge web site to a wintvdrivers21.exe I was able to force the existing device drivers to be deleted and reloaded with the latest Nova T USB Drivers. As soon as these had been updated the stop messages have gone and I am back to a stable GBPVR and vista. The EPG loads correctly and no blue screens when recording or while using the GBPVR application to view live television.

Many thanks for your help

David