Summary: I'm reinstalling Windows XP Media Center 2005 on this HP laptop. I don't have the original disc, but found what appears to be the legit HP OEM disc an...
Summary: I installed SP3 on my son's Compaq media center PC. First, it refused to boot up except in Safe Mode, then we loaded a back-up version from before our...
Summary: Hi, Have a Dell Dimension 9100, that came with XP MCE 2005. Main boot\HD dying, trying to ghost\copy before it's gone all together. Found a great, fre...
Summary: Park, Go to this site. It has lots of good information on the use of Media Center 2005. I used it when I set up a clients new Dell with Media C...
Summary: Hi, thanks for your reply, I am using XP pro and i do not want to by a copy of MCE just for the media centre functionality. The computer is a HTPC wih...
Summary: Hi, I want to install media center on my pc that's running xp but i dont want to lose my current programs and files, is this possible? Thanks. ...
Summary: I'm installing Win XP media center for the first time on a brand new notebook. I was told to partition the HD and install OS on separate partition. D...
Summary: So I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500 tv tuner currently in my PC. I am running Windows XP Media Center 2005. Hauppauge is not very user-friendly (espec...
Summary: I installed OEM MCE on a friend's computer - she is disabled and had a need to be able to use a TV card rather than a regular TV, and later, a MCE com...
Summary: Hi, Does anyone know how to install XP Media Center Edition from scratch. It will not let me boot from CD as it says Cannot boot from CD ROM for this ...
Summary: I already have the klite codec installed but just for fun I updated to the latest verson. Still not working.. Now it's even worse as MC crashes when ...
Summary: i need a boot.ini rebuild for my windows media center system and how to rebuild it. i found many for xp pro and so but not for media center can some o...
Summary: A friends HP Media Center PC m7077c crashed. Had no recover disk, etc. Installed XP Pro SP2 and I need drivers (according to Device Manager). No sound...
Summary: Formatting is rarely a 'solution' - Media Center is basically a dressed up (and updated) version of XP Pro, and should not require anything special in...
Summary: hi all , need some advice , just ordered a new pc with windows media center 2005 , i have a skystar dvb card installed in my old pc that i use t...
Summary: I installed OEM XP Home from a regular Microsoft CD on a HP Pavilion that had developed an inaccessible hard drive using the XP Home key on the case a...
Summary: My Compaq SR2050NX needs a new Hard Drive. I have a new Hard Drive and a new Version of XP Pro. Can I install that, or does it have to have MS Media C...
Summary: I have perchased 5 workstations loaded with WinXP MCE, two are showing the follow error periodically and during startup: Media Center Host Module Has ...
Summary: My Alienware system came installed with XP Home. I am trying to upgrade my Home Edition version of Windows to the Media Center Edition 2005, but afte...
Summary: the folks at microsoft do not care for their customers as they care for themselves. to avoid paying royalties, microsoft does not offer a dvd codec. h...
Summary: I want to thank everyone that replied to my ? on the preloaded bloatware you get when you buy a OEM PC. I also asked Dell not to install all this bl...
Summary: I for the first time in my computing history had to perform a fresh re-install of my O/S .I had lost the ability to perform a factory restore becaus...
Summary: I found this forum that has information and questions about the Media Center Edition here. Hope this helps. http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index...
Summary: I have had no luck getting my Media Center laptop (Toshiba's P25-S607) to "speak with" my cable box via the infrared extender. It's a cable box (the M...
Summary: Hi all, I have a Compaq Tablet TC1100 laptop/PC with Win XP Tablet edition and 256 MB RAM. I want to install Win Media Center 2005 but i want to ensur...