Where would I find that setting?
When I access a library sitting on a local hard drive Media Center is rock solid. As soon as I access my NAS - which is obviously where I'm going to keep 5 terrabytes of music - the program becomes functionally useless.That is probably not an MC problem. A virus checker checking every media file every time it opens could cause it. A NAS bug could also cause it. Try updating the firmware for the NAS drive. Uninstall the virus checker.
Server = a second computer that stores all my media.That could be a file server, a Library Server, a DLNA server, etc. Please provide more details.
sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
I upgraded to .149 and since then MC18 has been simply shutting down intermittently. There is no rhyme or reason for it. I have logs but not sure where to post them.I just re-read this, and there are two interesting possibilities.
I do not use theatre mode, rather I use it to stream video media to my WDTV hubs around my home.
Only change to computer (that I know of) over last week has been upgrading my antivirus software (Avast) to newest version.
I cannot add a lot of details on this right now- but I thought I might mention it.
On my MC machine at work I have had random crashing issues ever since the upgrade from 17 to 18. I rarely had to restart 17, it went for weeks on end without any attention, 18 seems to crash every 2-4 days. Nothing else changed on that machine since the upgrade, there is no antivirus installed as its a dedicated MC Server for our showroom and no one uses it (or has access to it) for any other reason. No other software was installed, no windows updates were done (Win7 64 Home Premium). We do have quite a few AV devices on the network that show up in the device list, not sure if there is a limit on that or not, but again 17 never had an issue. IE is the default browser.
I think it's still on .158, I will have to upgrade it to .166 on Monday, but I thought I would mention it. I have not had a ton of time the last few weeks to look closer at it, but it crashed again yesterday when a salesman was trying to demo a system so I really need to figure it out.
Since I posted this I have updated to the latest build .171. It crashed Saturday morning. I re-started and enabled logs saturday afternoon, it just crashed again a few minutes ago.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Media Center 18.exe
Application Version: 18.0.171.0
Application Timestamp: 5171c263
Fault Module Name: Media Center 18.exe
Fault Module Version: 18.0.171.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 5171c263
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0013ce25
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
I will be emailing the log capture shortly.
I continue to have crashing problems. It is very annoying and I remain unsure as to what is causing the problem.
It is too the point that I am considering reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows 7 to start fresh..
dave
Thanks for the log. Fixed next build:
Fixed: If a DLNA device requested metadata for a file that's no longer in the library (or never was in the library), it could crash.
(p.s. in the future, it would be best to start a new thread if you have a problem since I believe this is unrelated to daveman's problem)
I continue to have crashing problems. It is very annoying and I remain unsure as to what is causing the problem.
It is too the point that I am considering reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows 7 to start fresh..
dave
Matt
I am now experiencing crashes with 171.
I have reported them on the 171 thread.
Are you inferring that you would prefer to have specific threads started for reporting crashes?
I have logs captured for both instances.