2011-01-09, 12:43 PM
Caught wind that the fine tinkerers at gbpvr were hashing out a new project and thought after a 6 year hiatus in Windows Media Center Land, I'd try out the new, good stuff. Unfortunately, that is (after 5 hours of staring at a computer screen, blankly) where I am still at: in thought.
Here is my problem: My MVP is stuck at the loading screen saying "Connecting to Boot Server" with minor flashes ever 30 seconds or so to "Connecting to DHCP".
Here is my situation: 3 MVP D3 Revision boxes trying to get NPVR to load. I only hook up one at a time, since I am looking to troubleshoot here. Each one registers on my router with the correct MAC address and a good assigned by the router DHCP ip address. Pinging works good.
Here is my issue: I am pretty sure I am missing some kind of server application that is not installed with the NPVR program. Something along the lines a boot server. Unfortunately, since my aforementioned hiatus, I have forgotten what I need to get this guy running, and I am pretty sure that I can't use the old methods even if I do remember them because that was more than 2 OS's ago. Since I now have Windows 7 64-bit (for the ram), I am not getting anywhere with the MediaMVP software package from their support website. So even using these MVPs as stock is out of the question. I have found johnsonx42's sticky for newbs and I have downloaded in preparation mvallevand's dongle (which the MVP gets its OS from, I gather) but I just can't seem to find that last piece of the puzzle.
Here is what I would like: Tell me what I need to download to get this to work like I see others in forums talking about, so that I can get stuck on their more advanced issues as well.
PS
I should say that I have got the program to work on my actual PC/Media Server in windowed and full screen mode. It looks fantastic! I am just hoping to get the same results for the MVP.
Here is my problem: My MVP is stuck at the loading screen saying "Connecting to Boot Server" with minor flashes ever 30 seconds or so to "Connecting to DHCP".
Here is my situation: 3 MVP D3 Revision boxes trying to get NPVR to load. I only hook up one at a time, since I am looking to troubleshoot here. Each one registers on my router with the correct MAC address and a good assigned by the router DHCP ip address. Pinging works good.
Here is my issue: I am pretty sure I am missing some kind of server application that is not installed with the NPVR program. Something along the lines a boot server. Unfortunately, since my aforementioned hiatus, I have forgotten what I need to get this guy running, and I am pretty sure that I can't use the old methods even if I do remember them because that was more than 2 OS's ago. Since I now have Windows 7 64-bit (for the ram), I am not getting anywhere with the MediaMVP software package from their support website. So even using these MVPs as stock is out of the question. I have found johnsonx42's sticky for newbs and I have downloaded in preparation mvallevand's dongle (which the MVP gets its OS from, I gather) but I just can't seem to find that last piece of the puzzle.
Here is what I would like: Tell me what I need to download to get this to work like I see others in forums talking about, so that I can get stuck on their more advanced issues as well.
PS
I should say that I have got the program to work on my actual PC/Media Server in windowed and full screen mode. It looks fantastic! I am just hoping to get the same results for the MVP.