I've been having lots of problems with my server lately, and I narrowed my choices down to either a) rebuilding the entire machine from scratch, or b) getting a divorce. I chose option a).
For hardware - Asus p4b533-e motherboard, 2.4ghz p4, 1gig ram, 2 Hauppaugge 150 MCE capture cards. Trying to feed them with two Scientific Atlanta 4200HD boxes via S-Video, and control the boxes through USB-UIRT. This had all been working fine in the past - many, many releases ago.
I reformatted the hard drive, loaded up a WinXP Pro install, upgraded to SP2, did all the hotfixes. Installed motherboard drivers for LAN (obviously) and Audio. Installed latest Hauppauge drivers from their website, and latest USB-UIRT driver (v1.4). Device Manager says everything is working fine.
Trying to install Sage now. I'm having a problem getting passed the input sources. Note that I'm trying this in the latest beta (4.1.12), but I tried uninstalling and re-installing with the latest actual release build (4.1.3), same issue.
When running through the setup wizard, I go through all the steps about setting up library directories (pointing my video recording directory to partition with 64K clusters), etc. I then progress to setting up my input sources. I specify the first WinTV PVR PCI II, specify S-Video, wait for the test window to show that it's capturing properly, then continue to the part where I specify how to control the input source. I select USB-UIRT, and then it shows all the different remote codes in the USB-UIRT folder. I had saved my remote code files from my old installation, which I restored into the USB-UIRT folder in the new server. However, as soon as I click on 4200HD, which is the name of my remote file, everything blows up:
- If I'm trying to setup with Sage running in service mode, I get a message saying that Sage has lost connection to the SageTVService. If I go into the Service Control application, it shows that the service has stopped. If I restart it, Sage re-establishes the connection, and I'm back at the screen to select the remote code to use with the input. If I press 4200HD again, I get the same message that it's lost connection to the SageTVService. Go back into the Service Controller, Service has stopped again....
- If I'm trying to setup Sage with it not running in service mode, I get to the same point as above, but when I press 4200HD, the Sage application simply shuts down. No message, no nothing. Sage just disappears.
I'm really at a loss here. It's a completely new machine install of XPPro SP2, latest Java VM build, latest Hauppaugge drivers (which appear to be working fine - the preview that comes up when I specify S-Video does show video being captured), latest USB-UIRT drivers, and a fresh install of the latest Sage build. There's nothing else really on the machine other than Nero 6.
Help please????