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Mr ChriZ

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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #50 on: October 09, 2009, 02:28:40 pm »
The same transceiver on my laptop works flawlessly.
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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2009, 02:42:43 pm »
Ive tried the jriver reciever and also without it. Both ways give me the message. The jriver receiver is a hp reciever and probably does the same thing as my built in one on my hp laptop.
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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #52 on: October 09, 2009, 03:15:18 pm »
I tried it on my work laptop which is a dell running xp 32 and it runs perfectly.
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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #53 on: October 09, 2009, 03:38:36 pm »
Chriz is using a Dell:

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on October 05, 2009, 02:22:16 pm
This is a Dell Dimension Machine Vista x64.  I can try it on an XPS laptop tomorrow.

Kingstyles has an HP laptop:
Quote from: KingStyles on October 09, 2009, 12:14:57 am
I have windows vista on a hp laptop that has its own remote window ...

Both are Vista 64.  Both are laptops.
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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #54 on: October 09, 2009, 04:35:57 pm »
If you look at windows task manager on the "Services" tab while Media Center is running under Vista or Win 7, you should see a service called "Media Center 14 Service.exe" and it's status should be "Running". If this isn't running the transceiver won't work in Media Center.

The other thought I had was to go into Theater View options under the behavior section and checkmark the "Disable windows media center" option.
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John Thompson, JRiver Media Center

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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #55 on: October 09, 2009, 04:49:16 pm »
Hmm that service isn't showing up here at all?
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Mr ChriZ

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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #56 on: October 10, 2009, 05:02:27 am »
I uninstalled and reinstalled MC, which caused the service to show up.
The wizard then started working!  :)
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Mr ChriZ

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Re: You don't appear to have a Media Center receiver connected to your computer
« Reply #57 on: October 10, 2009, 07:25:20 am »
This works with standard install but not portable.
The service runs ok with portable, but the plugins do not show up under devices and options.
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Re: No Media Center receiver connected [solved]
« Reply #58 on: October 28, 2009, 11:26:44 am »
I had the same issue on Windows XP SP3.

Issue is I had it installed to a network drive - Z:\.  This is because my local C: drive is on a very slow SSD, so writing stuff there takes a while.  So I install apps on a network drive.

It appears that this broke the Media Center 14 Service, which wouldn't start - I tried to start it manually and it said it couldn't find the file.  I could see the path was pointing to Z:\.. so I figured it wouldnt start a service from a network path.

I uninstalled MC and re-installed to C:\, and now the Remote Wizard works.
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Re: No Media Center receiver connected [solved]
« Reply #59 on: October 29, 2009, 07:32:44 am »
Great information tjobbins, thanks for reporting the solution.
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Re: No Media Center receiver connected [solved]
« Reply #60 on: October 29, 2009, 08:59:45 am »
I'm progressing here also.  I've done the opposite.  I uninstalled the C:\ copy of MC14 and reinstalled onto my portable drive as a regular install to K:\
This allowed me to have the services running and a working copy of the remote on my main system, while at the same time using the same library as my portable install, as now (Install Drive) is working.  This also means my portable install continues to work.  This means I needn't have purchased Intellimote, although it is a nifty little program.

 have to keep both copies of Media Center up to date but other wise it's working well  :)
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Re: No Media Center receiver connected [solved]
« Reply #61 on: October 29, 2009, 10:50:30 am »
Glad to hear it's working Mr Chriz.  Thanks also for posting your solution.
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Re: No Media Center receiver connected [solved]
« Reply #62 on: October 31, 2009, 05:14:19 am »
This has left me with one problem...
When the regular install performs an auto import it's reimporting files already in the library.
The files in the library have filenames starting with (Install Drive).

As a result everything is duplicating.
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