K-Lite Codec Pack and Pinnacle PCTV

[nessus85100]

I have Pinnacle PCTV 5.50 software installed on my windows xp pro sp2 system and recently installed K-Lite Codec Pack with media player classic
and suddenly i lost the option to chose the audio output in pinnacle audio settings. I can hear the sound from my pinnacle pctv but cannot control it
from pinnacle software.

When i uninstall the K-Lite Codec Pack and open the pinnacle software the option in audio settings is back, but when close the pinnacle software and
open again the option is gone again.

any help and ideas besides reinstalling windows ????

thanks in advance

nessus

[anonymez]

You could try a system restore

[nessus85100]

thanks anonymez, but no luck and with system restore.

anyone.....other ideas ???

[Chewy]

reinstall the pinnacle software and any updates

then try ffdshow as a codec if that doesn't work

[nessus85100]

i uninstall and reinstall the pinnacle software and K-Lite Codec Pack many times but no luck.

How can i use ffdshow as codec ???. Sorry i am not so familiar with codec "things"

Nessus

[anonymez]

suddenly i lost the option to chose the audio output in pinnacle audio settings

Do you mean the option is gone completely? Can you post a screenshot? Not sure whether the codec pack is the cause of this, especially if a system restore did not help.

[nessus85100]

ok
Now i am in the office. I will post a screenshot later tonight

nessus

[nessus85100]

D I S A S T E R.....!!!!!!

anonymez i did a system restore again in a previous date and cannot boot to windows xp. No logon screen just the first windows screen without the logon users screen. pressing F8 to boot in any safe mode no luck. boot in last good know.... i get BSOD with a 0000008E error.

I have two HDD. One with xp pro sp2 and one with vista. I try to repair the xp installation with xp setup cd with my two HDD connected and when is finish and booting for fist time to xp i get BSOD with with a 0000007E error.
I can boot only in safe mode in windows and my Windows XP HDD now is E:\. and my Vista HDD is C:\.
Before was C:\ for xp and D:\ for vista . The same letters where and in vista installation too. Also i lost the Boot Menu so i can boot to Vista installation.

I Think this :
The End....
Muerte.....
Dead........
Finito.......
Caput.....

If you have any ideas i am glad to hear you other wise.....my weekend is gone be full of.......installations.

Nessus

edit : i forgot to tell you that during the repair installation of xp i got an error about an error in msvcrt.dll

[Chewy]

you have some hardware issues to deal with, is my bet, could be a lot of things

[nessus85100]

PC CONFIGURATION
M/B SOLTEK P4 SL-915GPRO-FGR
CPU INTEL 540 LGA775 P4 3.2 GHz
CASE MIDI TOWER 400W PS / ATX
RAM 1024MB DDR 400Mhz (2x512MB)
HDD-1 WD 80GB SATA
HDD-2 SEAGATE 120GB SATA II
DVD±RW SONY DRU500A 4x
DVD-ROM SONY 16x/48x
LAN REALTEK 10/100/1000 ON BOARD
SOUND REALTEK AC'97 8 CHANNELS ON BOARD (Driver v638 from Realtek)
VGA Aopen 6600-DVI-256-PCI-Xpr (93.71 Forceware Driver)
PINNACLE PCTV PRO PCI

Any known issues or problems with the above hardware ???

Nessus

[Chewy]

I would check the voltage rails in bios and suspect PS first, something's probably corrupting the hard drive, is it a raptor?

but like I said it could be many things,

bad loads from old wornout optical drives?

[nessus85100]

My optical drives are old models but working fine in any use until now.
A few weeks a go i change my RAM and PSU with new ones. Someone told me that 350W for my config
is small and for the ram i took 2x512mb for the dual channel support.


nessus

[Chewy]

what was the new power supply? exactly?
same question for new ram

[nessus85100]

ok
it's done

I install a fresh copy of windows xp in a second partition that i create (shrink option in vista disk management) in vista hdd.
At the moment i can logon only in vista so i have to recreate the boot loader so i can boot in tow operating systems.

I think VistaBootPRO will do the job. Or it's another easy way to do it from vista interface ???

Nessus