Software installation...

My Home Theater PC Project

Software installation... Sun, Apr 6. 2008

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.....

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#1 - Justchill 2008-04-08 12:37 - (Reply)

Zo dat gaat goed, waarom XP en geen VISTA? Je weet toch dat drivers beter ondersteund worden in VISTA en dat hybrid-Xfire enkel in VISTA werkt?

Heb je al wat foto's van je volledige setup (inc TV enzo)?

grt

#2 - Geert-Jan 2008-04-08 13:03 - (Reply)

Voornamelijk XP omdat ik de indruk had dat dat stabieler loopt. Ik wist/weet niet dat hybrid-Xfire alleen in Vista werkt, misschien moet ik mijn keuze dan toch heroverwegen.

#3 - Justchill 2008-04-08 14:17 - (Reply)

denk ik toch, 'k heb gezien dat je nog een HD3450 erbij hebt gekocht; ik neem dat het speciaal is om hybrid Xfire te gaan draaien?

#4 - Justchill 2008-04-08 14:24 - (Reply)

Aha.. gevonden, je hebt een CRT en wil de S-video gebruiken daarop? Je kan je TV ook aansturen via VGA rechtstreeks; wist je dat? (zo ga ik het doen)

#5 - Geert-Jan 2008-04-08 14:26 - (Reply)

Die kaart zit er inderdaad in voor de S-video. Via VGA had ik gelezen, maar dan moet je een verloopkabel solderen, en daar ben ik niet zo goed in :-)


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