The weekend has passed with - besides a lot of other activities - installing all the Specific Drivers (using the Gigabyte supplied DVD, which did it's job perfectly well), the Antec Fusion front display driver (from the Antec supplied CD), Windows XP updates, the ATI Catalyst 8.3 driver, Daemon tools, codecs and Media Portal. I currently don't have a keyboard/mouse/monitor connected to my HTPC so I'm using the Windows XP Remote Desktop facility to install the software. I have encountered one problem, that is the installing Mdeia Portal latest snap shot was complaying about Visual C++ redist SP1 not being installed, so I had to download/install it from the Microsoft site. I alos installed McAfee to keep me virus free (I hope). In the mean time I also created the data partition and formatted it as a NTFS partition, to enable me to store all the necessary data.
Unfortunately it seems like DirectX is not able to run over remote desktop, so up until now I did not see the real Media Portal....
I will probably connect a mouse/keyboard/monitor tomorrow to continue the installation and testing of the machine. I also still have to install the Club3D card and the wireless LAN facility. And I am watching the post man for the FloppyDTV card.....
