2008-01-23, 02:46 PM
Hey all,
First of all, I want to thank you for your collective help with my previous issues. I just experienced a problem with my setup last night, and I need your expert advice...
I. Everything was working like a charm. I had installed 512mb of DDR ram the other day, and the computer was operating better than new (yes, it's the right type of ram and everything, I made sure). I got a little greedy and already my puny harddrive was full. So off to best buy for an additional one! I came home with a SATA 350gig Western Digital HDD. Luckily it came with a SATA cable, which found a home on the SATA port on my mobo. Then, I had to employ the use of a SATA power converter, which luckily I had lying around. So the harddrive was plugged in.
II. The problem was, my normal HD that windows is installed on had less than 40 megs of space free. Booting into windows was impossible, because there was no space to load my personal settings. This becomes important in a moment. So I had to boot in using safe mode. Opened the disk manager, initialized and formatted the new HD, and it works wonderfully. I copied one or two shows over, delete them from the primary HD, and i'm back in business. Still in safe mode, I open config to point GBPVR to E:\TV\ instead of C:\Temp\ for recording shows.
III. Here's where the fun began. I load into windows normally, and my username is the same ("Brian"), but ALL MY SETTINGS ARE GONE. Gone. My programs are naught to be found on the start menu, and "My Documents" is empty. After some sleuthing, I discovered that somehow, windows got it in its head to make a folder in Documents and Settings called "Brian.AUX". no amount of googling turned up a thing about this issue. So, I made a new user named GBPVR with admin, copied everything over from my old username except ntuser.ini and ntuser.dat (etc), and once that was done, booted into the newly-made GBPVR profile and deleted everything in there named "Brian". I was back in business! Some of my shortcuts didn't work, but I quickly replaced those.
IV. Here's where my troubles stand. I loaded GBPVR, and everything was okay, except that the Yapi2mxl (or whatever...heretofor referred to as simply "yapi") application wouldn't load, when I went to update the EPG after exited GBPVR. No biggie. I download the files from the wiki and replace them. Open up yapi, find my provider, download channels, download and parse listings. So far so good, yapi made the XMLTV file. Load up config, empty/update EPG. GBPVR only shows the home shopping network. No problem, this is exactly like what happened before, I think to myself. I obviously hit the wrong thing under provider in yapi or something. I close GBPVR, open up yapi, re-do all the steps above (download schedule, replace in config). The schedule shows up just fine in GBPVR, only when I open up live TV, all I get is purple snow. It's not the hookup to the computer, because I checked and nothing could have physically knocked it out anyway. It's not the TV signal, because I have it split going to both the computer and TV, and the TV itself displays the same signal perfectly. I downloaded and tried VLC player, and opening capture devices gets me the same result; purple snow. I didn't know it was possible to screw up this badly. please let me know what the best course of action would be to take. I'll post log files later on today. I really would prefer not to reinstall windows, because that literally takes all day.
Ps. I checked the hauppauge PVR-150MCE device in device manager and it says it's working fine with no conflicts.
- Brian
First of all, I want to thank you for your collective help with my previous issues. I just experienced a problem with my setup last night, and I need your expert advice...
I. Everything was working like a charm. I had installed 512mb of DDR ram the other day, and the computer was operating better than new (yes, it's the right type of ram and everything, I made sure). I got a little greedy and already my puny harddrive was full. So off to best buy for an additional one! I came home with a SATA 350gig Western Digital HDD. Luckily it came with a SATA cable, which found a home on the SATA port on my mobo. Then, I had to employ the use of a SATA power converter, which luckily I had lying around. So the harddrive was plugged in.
II. The problem was, my normal HD that windows is installed on had less than 40 megs of space free. Booting into windows was impossible, because there was no space to load my personal settings. This becomes important in a moment. So I had to boot in using safe mode. Opened the disk manager, initialized and formatted the new HD, and it works wonderfully. I copied one or two shows over, delete them from the primary HD, and i'm back in business. Still in safe mode, I open config to point GBPVR to E:\TV\ instead of C:\Temp\ for recording shows.
III. Here's where the fun began. I load into windows normally, and my username is the same ("Brian"), but ALL MY SETTINGS ARE GONE. Gone. My programs are naught to be found on the start menu, and "My Documents" is empty. After some sleuthing, I discovered that somehow, windows got it in its head to make a folder in Documents and Settings called "Brian.AUX". no amount of googling turned up a thing about this issue. So, I made a new user named GBPVR with admin, copied everything over from my old username except ntuser.ini and ntuser.dat (etc), and once that was done, booted into the newly-made GBPVR profile and deleted everything in there named "Brian". I was back in business! Some of my shortcuts didn't work, but I quickly replaced those.
IV. Here's where my troubles stand. I loaded GBPVR, and everything was okay, except that the Yapi2mxl (or whatever...heretofor referred to as simply "yapi") application wouldn't load, when I went to update the EPG after exited GBPVR. No biggie. I download the files from the wiki and replace them. Open up yapi, find my provider, download channels, download and parse listings. So far so good, yapi made the XMLTV file. Load up config, empty/update EPG. GBPVR only shows the home shopping network. No problem, this is exactly like what happened before, I think to myself. I obviously hit the wrong thing under provider in yapi or something. I close GBPVR, open up yapi, re-do all the steps above (download schedule, replace in config). The schedule shows up just fine in GBPVR, only when I open up live TV, all I get is purple snow. It's not the hookup to the computer, because I checked and nothing could have physically knocked it out anyway. It's not the TV signal, because I have it split going to both the computer and TV, and the TV itself displays the same signal perfectly. I downloaded and tried VLC player, and opening capture devices gets me the same result; purple snow. I didn't know it was possible to screw up this badly. please let me know what the best course of action would be to take. I'll post log files later on today. I really would prefer not to reinstall windows, because that literally takes all day.
Ps. I checked the hauppauge PVR-150MCE device in device manager and it says it's working fine with no conflicts.
- Brian
