You're missing most of your specs:MotherboardVideocardDisplay make/model (as well as connection type)Tuner(s)Set-top box(es) yes/no?Also helpful would be: what drivers you've installed for the hardware, how up-to-date the OS is, what BIOS version you're running on the board, and so on - you know, the 'fine' details.FWIW, an issue such as this is typically caused by:- crappy drivers (might be videocard, might be tuner(s)- crappy hardware (read: crappy tuner)- poor signal quality (read: crappy cabling in the house, introduces noise that mimics a 'copy-never' flag)- for STB users, poor-quality cabling between STB and tuner (see previous point.)Also, FWIW, I've never seen this issue on either my desktop (been running Win7 since the Beta was released in January), nor on my server box (Win7 since September.)
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Have you overclocked the cpu or unlocked a core in the bios? I unlocked the 4th core on my Phenom x3 720 and I started getting the error even though I didn't physically change the cpu. I disabled the 4th core and the error went away. It's a long shot but just trying to help
Why does Microsoft put stuff like CGMS-A support into MCE? It's annoying and horribly implemented with respect to determining whether a recording was copied. I've seen this message many times in the past, and the content was NEVER a copy, Nor should it have been prohibited. There is little more frustrating than being blocked from playing a legitimate recording. I suspect that the vast majority of the time, people see this message when the copy is legitimate. What better way to irritate your customers, violate their fair-use rights, and block legitimate uses (because of a pathetic implementation). What is the motivation? I find that Microsoft usually falls short with products because they forget who the customer is... us, not the content providers. Microsoft should either fix this, or remove it -- this should never happen to people.
-Valkyrie-MT
So it appears you're going from the cable co digital signal to analog to your tuner card and re-encoding to digital and then recording. Once your signal hits analog the cable box can insert a CGMS flag which would prevent recording.
Does this happen on everything or just some channels? If just some what are they? Premium content or VOD or PPV?
It's more likely that your cable company might be doing something or your tuner card is has a problem with the incoming signal. Is it hi-def or SD?
If you're doing SD, you could go to S-video and put a signal cleaner in the line or
Solve the whole problem with cablecard tuners.
John
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Yep, to get the premium channels, you'll need a cable card tuner.
Mike
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socrossOK, so I've bypassed the STB and reconfigured the TV signal. The problem doesn't happen. SOOO...do I need a cablecard tuner? Bypassing the STB means I only get 33 channels, so it's not a solution.
You can either purchase ATI Digital Cable Tuners from www.cannonpc.com in internal or external format, or you can wait until CES starts next week, and see what Ceton has to say about the release of there quad cable card tuner. It's one card that fits in a pci-e slot, and takes one M-Card which is a multi-stream cable card that you get from you cable provider. You can record up to four channels at the same time while you're watching something that has already been recorded to your hard drive. They have stated that the card will be available Q1 2010 with a price range of $300.00-$600.00 bucks. The ATI DCTs are single tuners, so you would need at least two of them along with two cable cards. You can get them from the CannonPC or from Dell which runs a little cheaper. Cannon has them for $249.00 internal, $269.00 external. Gregg at Cannon is a nice guy and easy to deal with. Dell has them for $210 for an internal. I'll try to dig up the Dell link.
Ceton will be at CES in various partner booths, so hopefully they will announce a release date and a price at that time. There is a whole thread dedicated to the Ceton card.
Just a few things for you to think about...
socross*facepalm* Bought the cablecard tuner, got it set up yesterday and it was working fine. Wake up this morning and turn on the TV, and I see "ER could not be recorded because no tuner was found" or something like that. I look on the back of the computer and sure enough the green light was blinking yellow. Restarted the computer and this took care of the issue, but now I don't know why the computer somehow lost the connection to the tuner. I went into windows firewall and the tuner was on the list of programs it was letting through. Media center extenders wasn't, so I checked that. I guess I'll see if it happens again. Weak.
Is this an internal or external tuner? If it's an internal tuner, I would try to move the usb connection to a different header on the motherboard. I had to do that with one of my internal tuners because it just would not come up. Swapping it out to another port might do the trick, and stabilize it.