One USB type A port for the Angel USB TV Tuner (must be USB 2.0)
To get the specs, I found a tuner for sale on ebay.ĥ400 RPM or faster Disk Drive (Note: Disk DMA must be enabled for proper operation.)
Please ensure that both the tuner hardware and a valid tuner hardware driver are installed. The tuner hardware is either malfunctioning or not installed. If the problem persists, contact your hardware manufacturer for assistance. Please restart the computer and try again. If problems persist, please restart your machine and try again, or contact technical support.Ī critical media center process has failed. Over the course of a couple of weeks or months this started working less and less well, and then not at all.Ī critical media center process has unexpectedly failed. One suggestion that I got from a board/forum that worked EXTREMELY well for a short period of time was to power down, unplug your power cord, and I think also unhook your internet.īecause I have a laptop, at the same time I also removed my batter. Then I get the “Media Center crash r….” “Generating crash report. Used task manager and “end now” to end the hung up window. I tried to “X” out of the window, but unresponsive. None of the clickable/selectable options were responding to the arrow cursor when it was hovered over them. It had a navy blue background and “Video Error” While a mini window of what the TV/video screen would be opened up in the lower left hand corner of the MediaCenter window. I clicked Retry, and the “working on it” twirling “clock” (I don’t know what it's called) kept rotating without ever stopping.
An attempt to launch a JIT debugger with the following command resulted in an error code of 0x2 (2).Ĭlick on Retry to have the process wait while attaching a debugger manually.Ĭlick on Cancel to abort the JIT debug request. Registered JIT debugger is not available. (I think the exact numbers change each time) I can hit OK and get back to the “menu” of the MediaCenter window.Įhshell.exe – Common Language Runtime Debugging….Īpplication has generated an exception that could not be handled.
Media Center component registration may have failed. Some of the files needed to play radio or video are missing or corrupt. To see if it was just a bad piece of equipment, I purchased a brand new tuner: WinTV-HVRĪnyway, I tested it today to see what the latest messages were. I wonder if it would have started giving me problems earlier if I had been doing my updates, as I was receiving the messages.
Things degraded to the point that it just never worked. It initially seemed like a bad tuner because, after a while I notice that I could lose my TV signal if I bumped the tuner, and later on, from the vibration of me putting a mug down on the same table it sat on.Įventually, or right away, the picture would go away and I would lose sound and get a dark blue screen (instead of TV) with, I think, “Loss of Signal Error”. I was always having the video get stalled on a frame and stay there for anywhere from a second to minutes, while the audio seemed to go on uninterrupted.
The clarity was disappointing compared to the clarity of large sized image files viewed on the same screen.Ībout a year or so ago, I started having problems.
I started using it a couple of years ago and, at first, it worked fine. When I first got my laptop, I never used the Angel tuner that I ordered with it from Dell. Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)