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Media Center:Unsupported Region on tuner

  • 10-12-2008 10:51pm
    #1
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    My Media Center PC has been reporting an "Unsupported Region" error with my tuner since last week (after I had to do a hard reboot following a lockup - not that that's anything unusual (gotta love Windows!)). Live TV says I've no tuner installed, so when I go to configure the TV signal, it tells me that my area is not supported by my hardware.

    Now I know the hardware fairies didn't break in and install an NTSC tuner card while I was asleep (and I can capture video just fine with Windows Movie Maker, so the hardware itself is fine) so I've come to the conclusion that MCE has gotten its knickers in a twist, registry wise. I've downloaded and run a few "Reset MCE to first time use" type programs, but I still get the same problem. Googling hasn't really helped (basically I get a bunch of threads about Canadians complaining they cant use MCE) so I was wondering if anyone here had come across the same issue (and a fix!). I've disabled, uninstalled the card etc and still nothing.

    I'm trying to avoid a complete re-install as I've installed a fair few games and apps and I'd really not want to have to do that all over again!

    Any thoughts, suggestions welcome!


Comments

  • #2
    mediacentre.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭mediacentre.ie


    you could try the newer version.

    http://digiex.net/guides-tutorials/699-windows-media-center-tv-pack-2008-download-installation-guide.html


  • #3
    dmck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭dmck


    have you tried doing a system restore to a point before the problem occurred? that should sort any registry probelms out.


  • #4
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Thanks for the responses, I've been banging my head with this the last few nights. I'm going to take the soft option and make the machine a dual-booter. I've just bought a 1.5TB SATA drive and I'm going to stick the version of Vista I got at the launch 2 years ago and see if I can get that to work (once I've patched it up to SP1). If so, I'll re-install my apps on the new drive one at a time and then just use vista from now on.

    This will ieave me the option of trying to fix it later (if I'm feeling particularly masochistic!).

    Cheers


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