Device failed to start..

[forzaKGB]

Hi

I've been using GB-PVR for quite a few years and it has been working well. But I bave been longing to move to nPVR for some time now, it is nice and more modern. Also looking forward to the .ts comskip/skipping advantages.

BUT, and this is a big but. Something must be wrong with my setup since most of the time (yes, it was working yesterday) nPVR cannot acces my two tuners.
Setup:
Windows XP SP3
2xFloppyDTV DVB-C cards with CA-module
nPVR 1.5.31 (with patches installed with Martins installer)
One NMT server started

As I said I have had GB-PVR installed (and it is still installed but had the Recording Service set to manual) but I am running nPVR right now. GB-PVR has always been able to access my cards and yesterday nPVR also had access to them and successfully recorded a show we watched on our A-110. Then I had forgotten about a backup script that shuts down the Recordingservice, does a RAR-file of the entire devnz to another drive just in case and then starts the Recordingservice (have been doing this every sunday night for a year).
And after the GB-PVR Recordingservice started I could not access the TV-cards.

I have tried to reboot the PC, I de-actived and activated the cards in Computer Manager and also in nPVR. But no success.
I even shut the system down completely and powered it up but no success, I only get a Device failed to start...

Any guess to where I should look?
I attach the logs from my last try (just after i did a cold boot of the system with GB-PVR recording Service set to disable).

[sub]

I cant see an obvious cause in the log, but you could see if this patch helps.

[forzaKGB]

I stopped all npvr running (recordingservice, tray and application), removed the old dll and put the new in and then restarted.

Unfortunatly no success

Just to verify I started GB-PVR and no problem there...

Can this be decoder related?
Can I have chosen wrong decoders?

[sub]

Post the npvr.log/nrecord.log for an attempt with that new patch.

Also, try live tv in pvrx2.exe, and post the pvrx2.exe.log and pvrx2.exe-native.log. I might have some useful info for comparison.

[forzaKGB]

OK, sorry for not attaching the logs.

I have no monitor on the PVR PC so the logs are from live tv from NMT...

[sub]

Unfortunately I cant really see any obvious source of the problem in those logs.

[forzaKGB]

OK. Will try to shutdown the machine and unplug the power cord (in case that does an even harder reset of the hardware, I know that has helped us with our servers at work a few times when they have crashed really hard).

Thanks for the really fast help anyway
As soon as I get nPVR up and runnning you will have another donation coming from me

[forzaKGB]

Yes, it did actually fix the problem. Perhaps the firewire-device is not properly reset if the chassi still has power?

Strange yes but it is now working again
Thanks again for trying to fix the problem

[martint123]

Yes, it did actually fix the problem. Perhaps the firewire-device is not properly reset if the chassi still has power?)

Along with USB this is quite normal AFAIK - I have to unplug my server to totally reset an external USB tuner.

[forzaKGB]

The strange thing is that GB-PVR has no problem re-using the devices when nPVR has had control, but nPVR cannot gain control over the tuners when GB-PVR has "owned" them.
There must (well, of course it is not a rule that it must but there should...) be a way to reset the device in a way so another application can gain control over it.

Anyway it is working now and I know how to fix it if it happens again