I've probably missed out on the discount upgrade because of this same thing, but I still want to step up to the latest and greatest. I tried to upgrade last month and ran into the "Failed to initiate Media Center Purchase" roadblock. I jumped through a few hoops then decided to just stick with the previous version and deal with upgrading later because of hectic holiday madness and people coming over who would need entertaining with music and movies.
I'm just now getting back to trying v10 and, though several builds have come and gone, I still hit the wall with the 'failed to initiate' error. How can I get past this barrier I have to upgrading? From above it looks like not having IE as default browser may have been the problem for the OP, but IE6 is my default and only browser so that isn't what's affecting my situation. Advice?
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Sys info:
Media Center 10.0.32 -- D:\_Multimedia\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1522 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 272 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)
Ripping / Drive I: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive I: SONY CD-RW CRX175A1 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None