MVP failure to boot

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Hi,

hopefully this may be of use to some people.

I was running an age old dongle on my two MVPs, having not upgraded it for years (!?) as it worked perfectly well and MVP use was secondary to the main GBPVR PC use.

Upgraded main system to the latest version and thought I would use the GBPVR included dongle.bin which I had never done before (used the hauppauge on in the past).

Result:, neither the MVP which I had hard re-booted (disconnected from mains), or the other one, could find the server. Furthermore the hard boot one would not get past the "five blocks loading screen - it would get to two then start again"

Solution: windows firewall on the server was not allowing GBPVR pass through. Im sure i had enabled this in the past, but maybe multiple GBPVR uninstall, re-installs had removed this. Nevertheless, an easy thing to forget.

As an aside, the MVP was requesting a new IP address every 60s when nothing happened, causing my DHCP server to crash after using up all of the available Dynamic IP addresses (50 at the time!).

Anyway , new dongle seems much better - wasy faster response than ever had before!

[jksmurf]

Good post. I had this problem when I was using Norton, although I am not sure if it works with Wondows Firewall too.

The weird thing is it "appears" to remember the VERSION of GBPVR.exe or whatever you previously allowed access through the firewall for. i.e. you can't just think that is not the problem firewall is already set.

If you install a new version of GBPVR, I found (at least in Norton's Worm Protection) you HAD to RE-allow it through by pointing at the new GBPVR.exe and/or GBPVRRecordingService.exe builds.

k.