Possible to re-try my trial?

[flipz]

Ok so for anyone who hasn't seen my other post here, I have a server with windows home server running sagetv for WHS, and I have a htpc running sagetv. Both of these are trials as previously I was using Vista Media Center. I didn't have any problems with it, I just wanted to purchased a sage hd media extender, so I'm trying out sage.

Anyways, I have had a couple of issues that I haven't worked out yet, but they are definitely preventing me from wanting to buy sage. I had a couple tricks I was going to try tonight to resolve my problems but have found that they will require me to restart my server. This is a problem considering my trial expired yesterday. Currently it's still letting me use it because I haven't rebooted (and could go months without rebooting) however I am forced to reboot to see if it fixes some of the issues I'm having with sage!

So the question is, is there a way for me to redo my trial without completely reformatting the comp? I'm not trying to find a way to cheat the system as I really want this to work right, and I really want their media extender. But there is no way I am sinking a few hundred in to it when right now I have studdering that I haven't been able to resolve yet.

Thanks.

[matt91]

I don't know if it's worked, but when this has come up before, it has always recommended that folks contact Sage directly with this request.

Matt

[flipz]

Ok, I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Love the weim btw.

[davephan]

If you took an image of your computer before installing the trial software, you could 'completely' remove the software, then the trial software would probably install again.

I take an image of my computer before installing 'trial' software, because a lot of 'trial' software on the Internet is really lousy. I then completely remove the trial software by recovering with the image file set.

The SageTV trial time limit is very short, and the lack of of a trial for the Linux version probably reduces potential sales, especially with people who already own the Windows version.

The Windows version of SageTV is well worth the purchase price. I cannot say that about the Linux version. I might be willing to purchase the Linux version if there was a trial Linux trial available, and the Linux version proved to be superior to the Windows version, even after already purchasing the Windows version.

Due to the complexity of a HTPC, everything does not work immediately, tweaking is usually required, which takes time. The short trial time limit for the Windows version just isn't long enough for many people.


Dave

[flipz]

Well I ended up restoring both of my computers to get this problem worked out (I created an image this time before installing sage). But I just thought I'd point out that both of the trials I just downloaded are for 21 days now.

Thanks Sage!

Now off to post in my other thread because I'm still having the problem.