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esizemore02

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February 6th, 2009 12:00

media center HELP!

I have a dell inspiron with windows media center with mediadirect. Ive had to reinstail everything and everything works besides media center and media direct. dont care to much about media direct but my media center with tv tuner is all i have for tv in my room. When i open up media center and go to tv it gives me a code 3. Ive loaded the drive for angel tv tuner drive. Still  nothing. I geuss i should also add that i deleated the partition for the media direct just befor i formated my main partion. PLEASE HELP

dgkpcon

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February 6th, 2009 13:00

Either your media center original drivers are not loaded(open media center and click on setting>update),or,The media center application for the tuner is not installed.Do you have a software disk for the tuner?...

EDIT:Code 3

The driver for this device might be corrupted, or your system may be running low on memory or other resources. (Code 3)

Recommended resolutions

Here are some things that you can try to resolve this problem.

Close some open applications

If the computer has insufficient memory to run the device, you can close some applications to make memory available. You can also check memory and system resources, and the virtual memory settings.

  • To check memory and system resources, open Task Manager. To open Task Manager, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, and then click Task Manager.
  • To check virtual memory settings, right-click My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings in the Performance area.

Uninstall and reinstall the driver

The device driver may have become corrupted. If the driver is corrupted, uninstall the driver from Device Manager and scan for new hardware to install the driver again.

You may be prompted to provide the path of the driver. Windows may have the driver built-in, or may still have the driver files installed from the last time that you set up the device. However, sometimes, it will open the New Hardware Wizard which may ask for the driver. If you are asked for the driver and you do not have it, you can try to download the latest driver from the hardware vendor’s Web site.

  1. On the device Properties dialog box, click the Driver tab, and then click Uninstall. Follow the instructions.
  2. Restart your computer.
  3. Open Device Manager, click Action, and then click Scan for hardware changes. Follow the instructions.

Install additional RAM

You may have to install additional random access memory (RAM). For more information about RAM, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/addmemory.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/addmemory.mspx)

esizemore02

11 Posts

February 6th, 2009 14:00

Im sorry to say none of that worked. It still says "a critical media center process unexpectivly failed"    then says  " some files needed to play radio or video are missing or corrupt media center component registration may have failed"  It wont conect to the internent eather. But my comp dose.

I couldnt find the driver for it in device manager

dgkpcon

3.6K Posts

February 6th, 2009 18:00

Try uninstalling .net framework 2.0,then re-install it(also all previous and later .net should be done too).

esizemore02

11 Posts

February 16th, 2009 20:00

Thanks so much for your help.. I did figere it out i needed a video decoder instailed to veiw tv

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