Clean Install Won't Fix My GBPVR!

[Satnav4]

Hello All

I have a P4, 2.8gig, 1gig ram, ATI AIW 9800 Pro machine running XP Home. I have a 150 Retail and a 150 MCE installed.
I had success running Release 2313 for about a month or so, doing many synchronous recordings. Then, about a week ago, I found one of the cards would create a recording folder, but put no mpeg in it. I uninstalled and reinstalled the apps, drivers, etc. several times, to no avail. I ran the HCW program to scrubb the drivers, still no go. At one point, I got both cards to work again, but one gave me huge 50gig, 1 hour recordings. More work got me back to only one card working.

I reformatted the hard drive and did a fresh install of XP, with SP2, Directx 9.0c, Microsoft .NET, SB Audigy drivers and ATI 9800 Pro Catalyst drivers. I loaded the 150 drivers and installed GBPVR. This time, I received some error message referencing some C++ issue. It is discussed in this thread: http://gbpvr.com/cgi-bin....sertion

I reinstalled XP again, but with service SP1a. I had the same problem with the error message on a clean machine. It stopped doing it for some reason, and the program would allow me to set it up. Now it starts and gives me the guide. I can see the listings. When I select a show on at the current time and hit "watch", it thinks for a second and it returns to the guide without displaying the show selected, i.e. no TV to watch. It also pretends to record, but does nothing other than create a dummy folder and a green light in the tray.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? It would be one thing if I had never gotten the program to work. However, I set it up before on a machine full of programs. You would think it would run better on a clean machine with no programs.

I have come to rely on GBPVR, and I want to again.

Please help.

Thanks

S.

[colin]

Hey Satnav4,

i'm assuming this is related to your other thread?
<a href="http://gbpvr.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=3317" target="_blank">Other
thread</a>

Did you trry Sub's suggestion?

Cheers,
Colin.

[Satnav4]

Thanks for the quick reply Colin. Yes I checked, and I had it set correctly to the 150 cards. For grins, I did it again, saved and rebooted. I had the same problem. That is why I scraped the hard drive and started from scratch. I was convinced I would get it to work again--but I cannot get it to work.

S.

[sub]

Try to use both tuners then send the log files to me at support@devnz.com

[ydekmekji]

i've had a similar problem (where a folder gets created, green light comes on, but no file). I was about to do an XP reinstall, but it sounds like that won't necessarily fix it. Post your solution if you find it.

[Satnav4]

sub promptly checked my logs and said everything should be working fine. It is still not working right. I would not expect a clean install of XP to fix it--I tried it twice without success.

Did you load any other pvr programs recently? Did you have it working properly before?

S.

[Satnav4]

Moral

Don't be a idiot. My new install is working. It appears I may have failed to load .Net correctly before installing my ATI Control panel. ATI requires this; so does GBPVR. This must have corrupted things.

I will report back on full configuration,

S.

[Satnav4]

It works great again. Make sure you load Microsoft.Net before GBPVR or you are in for trouble. I still don't know why it stopped working the first time. I had .Net installed and it worked for a good while.

S.