Bye everyone

[onestar]

Just to say bye from me in GBPVR land. Due to unforseen circumstances (like machine refusing to boot up ) my use of GBPVR has come to an abrupt end and migration forced.

Hope GBPVR continues to enjoy its success and functionality. Good luck.

[kayleigh]

Gee, no one replied after all the views?

What prompted you to quit GBPVR after your "machine refusing to boot up?" What are you migrating to that's forcing you from this software?

I've dealt with a lot of Windows systems going to the dogs (servers & workstations, hardware- & software-caused problems). I'm sure a lot of others on these forums have, too. There's gotta some help for you here somewhere?

[onestar]

Hi, you see I am a turncoat.

My windows system has been playing up for a while (year+). First noticed recordings would have a single period of recording 1 frame a second for a minute, so it appears to jump during the best bits (never the adverts though). That was annoying enough to consider a fresh install. I mean what causes that, to know exactly when to skip!! I couldn't find anything in logs, or services, or timings.

Then recently I had random reboots (I think either power supply or hard disk errors) which just wouldn't reboot unless actually powered off. I replaced the drive with a seagate 1TB - only to find they were faulty too and needed that replaced. (Annoying when the bad drive is the system drive - nothing migrates a system all that smoothly). (And the skipping was not related to the drive).

Anyway I finally - after the reboots got worse - setup a completely new system, using another OS and another PVR, firstly starting as a "let me try this again to see if it has changed" curiosity - rather than a let me really migrate.

Anyhow once it was up, I had planned on running the two in parallel to see how it went. However the windows one just gave up booting the same day - and I gave up forcing it. Luckily for me, the other one has proved to be okay (phew)!

So nothing moved me away from GBPVR itself. I would have happily continued being a paying patron. The system had been my last windows system for over a year now, and not been looked at being migrated until now.

Also in my "transference", you naturally start to explore things - that you wouldn't normally touch.
I found a dusky sky controller - uses the tvlink rf2 (works under windows too - GBPVR), that is just brilliant.
And a sky grabber that grabs listings from the sky website - quite good to overwrite inaccurate radio times xmltv listings (not sure if that runs under windows though - requires perl).

Gee, no one replied after all the views?

What prompted you to quit GBPVR after your "machine refusing to boot up?" What are you migrating to that's forcing you from this software?

I've dealt with a lot of Windows systems going to the dogs (servers & workstations, hardware- & software-caused problems). I'm sure a lot of others on these forums have, too. There's gotta some help for you here somewhere?