Win 10 + WMC = Crashing during config

[FatRakoon]

Ok, well since you lot helped me get Windows Media Center running on Windows 10, and thanks guys, it mostly runs a peach.

Now, I have an Intel NUC that I bought a while back for no other reason that I thought it was a novelty and for the most part, its been dumped in a cupboard cos I have zero use for it.

But then I thought.. Bugger it, I will set it up properly for a laugh.

Now, I have got a choice of 7, 8 or 10 to put onto it, but I dont have 8.1 spares, and so I have gone with 10, btu I have NOT yet activated just in case...

Now I have given it a fresh install on a nice SSD 120, Im usin EFI mode for a giggle, and the drivers are all fully up to date and are fresh off the internoodles this morning ( very late last night ), it has installed just great, and everything has gone as it should have done, I have assigned my Servers Folders for it as network drives ... Movies, TV, Music, Por, erm documentaries and so on, but when I try to setup the TV signal, I kind of start doing it, and then I get a BSOD. Every time.

It pops up just a few moments after it actually starts to search the channels...

KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE

The TV Card I am using is a USB one and it works brilliantly in Win10 on another PC.

I am about to format and reinstall to be honest as I have been at it since late last night and I am very tired and fed up that I have got nowhere?

Anyone offer me any clues as to what I am missing?

 

[jpaul]

Have you obtained a detailed trace of BSOD (Nirsofts blue screen is what I used in win7, after configuring OS to save log ) and googled that to try and track down root cause ?

Did you install Intel HD gpu driver and not the MS generic one (have no specific problem with MS's one but I loaded what had been working for me in win7 in win 10)

 

[FatRakoon]

Sorry for not getting back earlier... I did think I haddone, btu obviously not.

Ok, BSOD trace? No, I have not.

What I have done however, is because I went through a stage of trying out a whole load of various TV Cards and devices, I have bought myself a handful of USB TV Dongles, and none of them are the same... I did this also partly because I wanted to know how many TV Channels I could watch/record at any one time... turns out that even if I had a ton of them in the PC, I a, stuck on 4.

But anyway, I have a semi-solution right now, and I do mean a SEMI solution.

I have come to the realisation, that this little tiny PC, is by far the most useless PC that I have bought in a long long long time.

Even though I have put in a generous 8GB stick of ram and its running off a very nippy SSD, albeit a small 120GB ( why would I need more if the Media is on NAS? ) - It is extremely unresponsive, in many ways, even when I am just opening up one window, the number of times it does not get a mouse clock is disgusting. and the times I have seen "This program is unresponsive" crop up on it, is quite frankly pathetic.

The apps dont crash, well WindowsMedia Center does, but nothing else has "YET?" but still, they all moan about me clicking too early instead of me waiting for a few extra seconds while it tried to figure out what to do next... Its ridiculous!

I tried Windows 7 and it installed fine, but would not start up properly, and I recon this is because I wasa doing everything EFI mode and thats probably it, but Im back on Windows 10 and like an idiot, I have activated it now, so there is no going back.

Anyway enough of the moaning, ( although I want to go on for hours because I hate this pile of nasty junk ), the TV USB Dongles...

I had had varying levels of success and failuires with them, and right now, I have one in there, and I have managed to watch TV on it... I was able to watch some of the olympics on it, but, when I was installing the TV Channels, it got to 100% and crashed.

It did this several times, and crashed at 100% every time, and as you may well know, finding the channels take a long time to do, so for it to crash right as its about to finished got on my nerves, btu the last time I did it, instead of killing the app, I click on close and after waiting for it, I got to the desktop.

I shutdown the PC and when I went back to it, I looked through the guise and it was half there like it often is and I clicked on a Program ( Olympics 2016 ) and after a load of spitting and hanging and farting about, it tried to display some kind of tv picture and then after more juggling about, there was a screen that was jerky, but there, and then after a few more moments, I got a fairly watchable picture.

I plugged in my headphones and watched it for abotu 10 minutes and I had no issues at all.


I have gone through 4 different dongles and it seems to me, that thee dongles are fine under Windows 10, as they have worked just fine on other PCs, but they are all being a problem with this little Intel NUC PC. They also work great on Laptops too!

Considering thee little NUCs are really designed with MediaCentre in mind, I find it most ironic, that they are the worst machines that I have, for turning into a Media PC.

I have got 3 Media Centre PCs now.

My main one is a Hex Core AMD with 16GB in a Zalman 503 case and thats got a pair of seriously top end cards in, one is a dual and the other a single, but they are gorgeous pictures, and a Xonar D2X Audio. another is based on the AMD APU in a tacky desktop flat case but again, 2 TV Cards in and the final one is an I5 ITX setup and all 3 of these are flawless in every way but the one that is supposed to be a MEdia Center, is the one that I am just going to throw away through the sheer hatred for it.

Im only using a single HD and so what I am going to do, is swap the HD out tonight, and give it anothershot with a purely KODI setup and see how well I fare on that... I also have DVB-Viewer that I bought a short while back and Ishould make use of it now I have paid for it, so...

Thanks for the replies though. Much appreciated.