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Yet Another Windows MCE 2005 Install Problem...

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Hey everyone.. I've been trying to get this new card to work and it looks like Windows Media Center is going to play hard to get. ;oP

My Setup:
AMD Athlon XP 1400+
512 Mb PC2700
WD 40Gb
eVGA NVIDIA NVTV Dual-Tuner MCE Edition
AGP GeForce 2 MX-440
Intel PRO/100 M

Installation Order
Installed MCE
Installed LAN Drivers
Installed NVTV Drivers
Installed NVIDIA nForce Drivers
Reboot
Installed NVDVD MPEG2 Decoder
Reboot
Run

My Problem
The problem I'm having is that when I get into Windows, it acts kinda quirky. Internet Explorer closes on some websites and what not. When I get into Media Center, the background is kinda garbled and looks really weird. It's not the nice an smooth animation you'd expect to see. I'm pretty sure this is because the GeForce 2 that I have doesn't support DirectX 9.

So I figured that I would borrow the Radeon 9800 Pro from my desktop and try to install that. I went to ATI and downloaded their new catalyst drivers. But I think now they may have not been the MCE drivers from their site. But I get into windows and now the graphics are REALLY messed up bad. Icons look like jibberish and ther rest of the screens look all messed up. And I havn't even gotten into MCE yet. I try to run MCE and it seg. faults. The only thing I can think of is that I've got somthing broken on my computer and I need to try and narrow it down. Problem is that I don't have too many spare parts laying around to try and swap it out with.

Once I get into Media Center is says that it cannot find my adapter and that I should try reinstalling the drivers. I think this is a generic Microsoft message saying somthing is broken, go fix it.

This is so frustrating becuase I tried to do all my homework and end up getting smacked in the face my Microsoft. LOL. Can anyone shed some light of their experience or troubles with MCE?
 
Make sure the nvidia drivers are fully removed, remove the ati drivers, and go download the mce catalyst drivers.

The IE issue leads me to believe there is another problem as well though...
 
That's what I thought, but I'm not quite sure where to start looking.. 😱/
 
I'm going to try some hardware testing with memTest x86 and run the mersemme Prime number torture test to see if I can find some hardware instalabillity.
 
it's very possibly your somewhat dated proc. Shiney transition effects take some cpu cycles probably, and your CPU might be the culprit.
 
Well. I've stripped everything out of the system except the video card, mobo, cpu and the power supply..

I got another video card and another power supply and the problem still exists. It appears that there is a Floating Point error that is occuring when windows is trying to install and when Prime95 is running. This definitally sets off red flags to me if the floating point unit is screweing up. I want to grab another processor and see if it's definitly that that's causing the problem. Prime95 was saying there was some rounding error that was greater than .4 Most of the time it ended up being some humongous number.

So it's either the MoBo or the CPU. Any bet's on which one it is? I'm voting for the MoBo since it's an ASUS A7V333. But you never know 😉
 
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