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Installed 7MC RTM 32bit on 24/10/09 (was waiting for ICE TV) installed as per instructions and all went well. It configured the 4 Nova T500 tuners out of the box and Ice TV was working reasonably well. (2 Minutes padding aside ???) Anyway the Nova T500's dropped 2 tuners for some reason and the "usual fix for Vista" reboot didn't fix this, after a week of only 2 tuners and the need to add Channel 72, I figured on a forum read and an re-install of the latest drivers from the new Magic site. Used HwClear to remove the old Nova T500 drivers and then installed the new ones after a reboot. Had Ice TV Beta 1 installed so I updated to Beta 2 while I was at it.

Rebooted just to be sure, opened MC seems like this worked well, opened the guide with Ice TV and My Channel logo's still there. It then tells me it found 2 new tuners, Bewt. Ok lets go and install the tuner, which it finds and states 4 tuners are there. Agree to the guide data. Enter the post code 4000 for Brisbane, it then tells me that its unable to find guide data. When I work through the scan of channels etc Ice TV is no longer showing. It does find all channels just nothing with the suffix Ice TV.

I Have
1          Re-installed Beta 2 and had a look
2          Un-installed Beta 2 rebooted and re-installed
3          Un-installed Beta 2 cleaned out the Channels, Rebooted and re-installed
4          Cleaned out the channels rebooted and rescanned
5          Did a system restore to yesterday, came back with a fail code of 0000034 from memory. System same as before doing restore.
6          Did a WHS restore which got things back up and recording. still only has 2 tuners working.
7          Reformatted the sucker, took 2 hours to get it all back to where it should be.

Any suggestions before the sledgehammer comes out? the problem seems to be in the ICE TV side of things in that it is unable to find ICE TV.
Going to try a WHS restore and if necessary a format of the C drive.

Cheers
Robert

7MC = Core2 duo, 2 Gig Ram, 2x Nova T 500's, 4xHDD's, exactly the same machine that been running as a Media Centre only using Vista and IceTV for two years. software installed, Windows 7 Ultimate, Kaspersky KIS 2010, Acronis True image, my channel logo's, and ICE TV of course.  :)

Loaded RC1 on my media centre did the Astro black mod and changed the channel colours. installed the ice TV beta, all installed without a hitch. it recognised my 2x nova T500's etc, I never had to find and load any drivers. all up and running in a couple of hours. its running as sweet as.... WAF is 9/10.

in the interests of keeping the WAF high, the Question I have given that ice tv wiped out the coloured TV channel icons upon install, will reinstalling them bugger up the ice TV settings? 

About to reformat the VMC again and wish to backup the ICE TV EPG settings on the Vista Media Centre. Am I to assume that it is located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome folder. And is there a way of relocating this folder to say "D:\Documents\eHOME folder on my data drive and pointing ICE TV to it in the new location. So if things go pair shaped, I don't loose all the recorded TV settings, hence saving me having to spend time going through the EPG and setting it back up.


Cheers
Robert