Hi, I have one of the original Elonex Artisan's - with dual digital tuners.
Machine packed in at Christmas (missed all the Xmas movies) and it turned out to be the hard disk that had died - which to be fair had put up with with SERIOUS amounts of hard work in its 4-5 year life.
I put a new ESATA drive in which seemed to work OK, and installed XP Media Centre onto it (from a disk I had which didn't come with the Artisan).
From that point, I have never made much progress and the wife is starting to put her footdown and insist on a new PVR of some sort. Since the new HD went in, I have never been able to record or watch TV on the elonex, only play DIVX stuff.
Thing is, the Artisan was fantastic, and I don't think I will find anything as good - not to mention, it cost £1,000 and I don't want to bin it as I know the hardware is good (and I don't have £200-£300 for a new PVR either as I am not working at the moment).
The problems I have had all relate to drivers I think, have trawled the net and meddled for hours/days with it, it seems I just can't get the tuners to work, the rest of the system is also unstable, power management isn't as it was before (won't wake up from sleep) and it crashes when watching DIVX stuff occasionally which it never did before and sometimes just crashes when apparently doing nothing.
Question is, is there any kind soul out there who would be able to burn me an image of their dual tuner system somehow ? I would happily pay somebody for their trouble as it would be worth it to get it running again.
Or for that matter, is there a magic bullet to sorting the drivers? I have tried SO many drivers, combinations of removing drivers, removing card, adding cards etc etc etc etc it has never worked. MCE just says there either are no cards, or if it seems the cards, it can't find any channels.
A disk image or backup of just the std config would be an absolute life saver, can anyone help out before the wife puts her foot fully down?
Thanks in advance
John
PS. I have an XP MCE licence so that should be no issue.
Machine packed in at Christmas (missed all the Xmas movies) and it turned out to be the hard disk that had died - which to be fair had put up with with SERIOUS amounts of hard work in its 4-5 year life.
I put a new ESATA drive in which seemed to work OK, and installed XP Media Centre onto it (from a disk I had which didn't come with the Artisan).
From that point, I have never made much progress and the wife is starting to put her footdown and insist on a new PVR of some sort. Since the new HD went in, I have never been able to record or watch TV on the elonex, only play DIVX stuff.
Thing is, the Artisan was fantastic, and I don't think I will find anything as good - not to mention, it cost £1,000 and I don't want to bin it as I know the hardware is good (and I don't have £200-£300 for a new PVR either as I am not working at the moment).
The problems I have had all relate to drivers I think, have trawled the net and meddled for hours/days with it, it seems I just can't get the tuners to work, the rest of the system is also unstable, power management isn't as it was before (won't wake up from sleep) and it crashes when watching DIVX stuff occasionally which it never did before and sometimes just crashes when apparently doing nothing.
Question is, is there any kind soul out there who would be able to burn me an image of their dual tuner system somehow ? I would happily pay somebody for their trouble as it would be worth it to get it running again.
Or for that matter, is there a magic bullet to sorting the drivers? I have tried SO many drivers, combinations of removing drivers, removing card, adding cards etc etc etc etc it has never worked. MCE just says there either are no cards, or if it seems the cards, it can't find any channels.
A disk image or backup of just the std config would be an absolute life saver, can anyone help out before the wife puts her foot fully down?
Thanks in advance
John
PS. I have an XP MCE licence so that should be no issue.