No System information when in system menu

[reefboy]

I have been battling this for quite some time and am now really wanting to get this taken care of as I believe it is also part of the reason I have problems with other plugins.

Running straight GBPVR Blue with minimal to no plugins I get the following error in GBPVR.exe.log

4/1/2006 1:42:51 PM.109 ERROR [2] Unabled to determine disk usage: System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidComObjectException: COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW can not be used.
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetIUnknownForObject(Object o)
at System.Management.ManagementScope.GetIWbemServices()
at System.Management.ManagementObject.Get()
at xae10db17d26ba033.xaff7107ea01e1347.Activate()

Basicaly, when I go to the System menu within GBPVR I just get a blank screen and get the messages above in the gbpvr.exe.log

I have tried it while zonealarm and other programs are off with no luck. I have tried to verify that all of the main services are started for the computer with the problem . When I check the same services are active on another computer of mine which works great for the "system status" as well as video archive plugin panels I see nothing that jumps out at me.

How does the system status work? Is there a way to invoke the same commands from outside of GBPVR in order to pinpoint what is causing the problem? Any help would be appreciated!

For what ever reason I have never been able to get the vidoe archive plugins working either. Not sure if there is a common thread to both problems but I wouldn't doubt it.

[sub]

Have you tried googling on "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW can not be used"? It sounds like some setting on you machine is stopping GB-PVR from using WMI to determine the disk usage. Maybe video archive is also checking the disk space?

[reefboy]

Thanks Sub. That will give me a start. What is WMI? I figure the more information on what is being invoked will maybe help me determine what is going on. (Unlikely to help me since this seems to be more involved than I am used to, but hopeful I will somehow determine what is the problem)

I have googled the RCW problem in the past but get lost as this seems to be more development oriented and is way over my head.

I googled it again and came to this site which describes an issue similar to mine.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...-US;818612
However, for the life of me I can't find a dowload for the fix. And it appears as though it wants to install .NET Framework Service Pack 2. (Not sure where to get this andcan I install this w/o interfering with GBPVR?

I also have MS .Net Framework 1.1
and .Net Framework 1.1 hotfix (Kb886903) installed.

So I will continue snooping around although I have a feeling I will have to accept not using the System Status or Video archive.

If anyone has encountered this before please share your experience.