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Here's the background of an issue that arose back in 2012, when I was configuring my sig-rig to feed my AVR and HDTV with cable-TV fed by my HD HomeRun Prime (with cable-Card from the cable/internet provider):
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=37396687#post37396687
By the time I'm finished with all this, there should be a link in THAT thread to return to this one.
Just after I built this rig and connected a second vid-port to my AVR, I discovered that changing the Hyper-Threading configuration in BIOS would result on a borked Media Center configuration per HDCP and encrypted channels.
If the Media Center and HDHR' were configured, activated, "verified" etc. with HT enabled on my computer, disabling HT would result with Media center throwing up a "cannot display protected content" and total inability to access my cable/HDHR' channel-lineup. When this happened back then, my experience with the HDHR' was "young." In any case, I didn't want to fiddle with it anymore. I wanted the HDHR' and cableCard to work with Media Center, and I had to get rid of other issues without dealing with this discovery.
If you read the "CPUs and OC'ing" thread, you can understand why I visited this again. My sig-rig and another 2700K system are both configured to use tuners among two, perfectly-configured HDHR'-s on my network. At will and whim, I can connect the second system to my AVR-HDTV rig, using a different port on the AVR or TV easily switched with my remotes. No problem; already proved it all works beautifully.
But the same problem emerged once I started Media Center with the start-menu option "Play Live TV." That is, I'd disabled Hyper-Threading.
Since the Silly-Dust tuners -- both of them -- have been properly activated (more perfectly than the first one had been 3+ years ago) -- I'm wondering if :
a) This is only a problem that requires running a complete TV setup again with Media Center;
or
b) I will have to actually call the cable company to re-activate my cable-card (or cards) and go through the same telephone misery I've completely avoided now for good part of six months (since I learned how the cable company hadn't properly entered data at their end to properly set up my second tuner -- and therefore the first one. Got that fixed, and didn't they find out, too?!)
Which is it? Is this only a matter of re-running "Digital Cable Advisor?" Because -- if I have to go through hoops again with my cable-provider, it just won't be practical to fiddle with HyperThreading or the lack thereof.
See -- I can go ahead and fiddle with this; maybe -- since I can add any other computer in the house to HDHR' usage -- it is only a problem with (a). But if it's (b), then I can kiss off changing the HT setting on either of these machines -- without going through all that trouble again.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=37396687#post37396687
By the time I'm finished with all this, there should be a link in THAT thread to return to this one.
Just after I built this rig and connected a second vid-port to my AVR, I discovered that changing the Hyper-Threading configuration in BIOS would result on a borked Media Center configuration per HDCP and encrypted channels.
If the Media Center and HDHR' were configured, activated, "verified" etc. with HT enabled on my computer, disabling HT would result with Media center throwing up a "cannot display protected content" and total inability to access my cable/HDHR' channel-lineup. When this happened back then, my experience with the HDHR' was "young." In any case, I didn't want to fiddle with it anymore. I wanted the HDHR' and cableCard to work with Media Center, and I had to get rid of other issues without dealing with this discovery.
If you read the "CPUs and OC'ing" thread, you can understand why I visited this again. My sig-rig and another 2700K system are both configured to use tuners among two, perfectly-configured HDHR'-s on my network. At will and whim, I can connect the second system to my AVR-HDTV rig, using a different port on the AVR or TV easily switched with my remotes. No problem; already proved it all works beautifully.
But the same problem emerged once I started Media Center with the start-menu option "Play Live TV." That is, I'd disabled Hyper-Threading.
Since the Silly-Dust tuners -- both of them -- have been properly activated (more perfectly than the first one had been 3+ years ago) -- I'm wondering if :
a) This is only a problem that requires running a complete TV setup again with Media Center;
or
b) I will have to actually call the cable company to re-activate my cable-card (or cards) and go through the same telephone misery I've completely avoided now for good part of six months (since I learned how the cable company hadn't properly entered data at their end to properly set up my second tuner -- and therefore the first one. Got that fixed, and didn't they find out, too?!)
Which is it? Is this only a matter of re-running "Digital Cable Advisor?" Because -- if I have to go through hoops again with my cable-provider, it just won't be practical to fiddle with HyperThreading or the lack thereof.
See -- I can go ahead and fiddle with this; maybe -- since I can add any other computer in the house to HDHR' usage -- it is only a problem with (a). But if it's (b), then I can kiss off changing the HT setting on either of these machines -- without going through all that trouble again.
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