I built this shuttle system 2 years ago and have been really impressed with it, with an AMD athlon 2500 and 1Gb ram its a powerful machine. a little noisy but reliable and very effective with two monitors!
I recently decided to upgrade to OEM Windows XP MCE 2005, the XP part runs great runs fine, Media player 10 can play music and videos fine. When I load the Media Center app (I have the remote... v.useful) an error pops up "Your video card or drivers are not compatible with media center." But media center continues to load and will play music, but refuses to play any videos. This even prevents the setup completing fully.
I have no desire in buying a graphics card as the one onboard is great for everything else i do.
I saw on another forum, that users of the SN41G2 range had solved this problem on MCE 2004 by updating the bios shared RAM to 64Mb, but this has had no effect, neither has 128Mb.
I have not installed a TV tuner but I can't see why that should be a problem... I have an avermedia TV PCI card but its not great quality and i doubt it works!
After hours of settings changing I discovered the windows own driver for Graphics card works no errors but disables some of the more useful features of the card. I can't find an nvidia update that works with MCE 2005 however.
MCE 2005 seems very useful, the ability to play all my x-vids and music is great, but it isn't built for compatibility...
has anyone had the same problem and sorted it?
Any ideas on the best ways to get the most out of MCE 2005?
which TV tuner are worth getting (esp. on a budget?) my old avermedia was pretty naff quality and slowed my pc right down. does having Mpeg II onboard slow the computer down as much? how about tv recording in the background. am i better with an all-in-one digibox with 40Gb disk?
i am open to any ideas or thoughts my spec are below:
Shuttle SN41G2 V1
AMD 2500 athlon barton core (at 1.83mhz)
2x crucial 512Mb RAM
Maxor 200Gb HHD
2x 19" monitors using NVIDIA geforce4 MX Integrated GPU on 6.6.9.3 drivers
Onboard Nvidia 5.1 SPDIF Optical sound output. via SONY 5.1 home cinema.