MCE 2005 Rollup problem

Posted At : October 26, 2005 4:15 PM | Posted By : Christopher Wigginton
Related Categories: Windows Media Center Edition (MCE)

My system at home is a Windows Media Center Edition XP Pro (MCE) which is probably the best I've seen for an integrated multi-media system with PVR capability. Unfortunately, It's the same system I use for everything else. I've got loads installed on the system, including the Microsoft SQL engine (MSDE), MySQL, and ColdFusion, just to name a few. Normally, I set the various services to manual startup to conserve memory. And then the latest MCE and then the rollup to the rollup released just days after the first rollup.

UGH! Suddenly the tv tuner wasn't working. Seems the components didn't register properly. At the time I performed the install, both rollups were available, so I had put both of them in. I tinkered with it for a couple of days without resolution, and then I found Aaron Stebner's blog. He was very helpful in getting the system up and running. For some reason the .NET framework that the rollup installed was corrupted. After a reinstall of the framework, everything ran great.