Greetings from Czech Republic

[Arris]

Hello MichaelL,

Welcome at the Windows 2008 Workstation Forums!

I heard your problem about installing Windows XP on a Windows Vista laptop very often; it’s just the lack of good Windows XP drivers for the hardware. I’m glad you now found this good alternative for you!
The drivers aren’t a big problem for anyone I think: I haven’t heard much people complaining about non-working drivers. In almost all cases just installing the Vista drivers worked fine. I can only confirm the rest of your findings! 😉

I really hope a solution to the Windows Media Center/tv card problem will be found soon; for several people this is a reason to not install Windows Server 2008.

See you around at the Forums! 🙂

[MichaelL]

Thank you for the warm welcome,

I also really hope this problem can be solved with media centre, I won’t even blame the operating system in my case, actually I don’t know what the problem is, but I know I have tried all the good TV apps, and in Native Vista, apps like Sage TV, Beyond, AverTV, Nero Home, MediaPortal, DScalar and the only app that seems to work with the card, is Media Center for Vista. Actually DScalar did manage to render a black and white TV picture for one channel without sound. I have also spent hours/days trying to configure and tune the channels manually, redone all codecs etc.

I have decided that because I am so impressed with Win2008Workstation, I am going to go out and buy an affordable USB 2 TV Tuner, and get around the problem this way. A TV Tuner that is not bound to MCE.

But, and a HUGE but, if any of you guys find a way to get MCE fully operational on Win2008Server, this would be most awesome, and our great OS would really be complete with it.

[michal]

Hi,
From now on there are at least three of us. I have just installed WS 2008 R2 Enterprise and I have to say it’s the best OS from Microsoft.

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