****** UPDATE – June 3rd. Well prior to previous reports about Windows 7 missing its release this year, it seems that it’s now scheduled for a full public release on October 22nd, and a 50% offer is in the pipeline. So hopefully this bug list will stay as short as possible! ******
Thought that as I have both my Media Center systems running the Windows 7 RC I should keep a tab of bugs that are annoying the f**k out of me.
So far we have:
Hauppauge DVB-T ‘missing’ in the lounge PC and no DVB-T tuners workable meaning scheduled programs didn’t record. Solution: re-runnning the hauppauge driver install .exe file, so far that seems to have done the trick. UPDATE: Another install of the bedroom PC resulted in the Hauppauge drivers being automatically installed, so I think a failed automatic-driver-update was the reason for me losing the card temporarily. I doubt this issue will happen again.
Audio/video sync out of alignment; sometimes lip-sync on TV looks perfect, other times it looks so out that it’s as if I’m watching another program. Solution: None yet, maybe I’m just imagining it all and there’s no difference in quality from Vista, but I do swear that DVB-S reception has no sync fix on it. DVB-T can look ok 90% of the time. I think I’m over-analysing it… UPDATE 29 June:A definate bug, albeit a small one; if the audio & video are out of sync, skipping back a few seconds fixes it. It seems to happen most often when skipping through TV quickly – I frequently use the skip forward 30 secs button to jump ad breaks etc and notice the delay most after this. Otherwise the audio & video are in perfect sync all the time. This may actually be a bug as some TV looks perfectly in sync, while other channels can look horribly out. I think restarting some programs has the effect of fixing it.
Bedroom/bathroom PC barely working; the new Intel build worked perfectly for about 2 weeks but the last few days it has been incredibly unstable; hanging while watching live TV, automatically restarting and not being able to reboot at all etc. Solution: Er, chuck it out the window? Maybe not, I need to work out if it’s a hardware or software issue first, but this is definitely the most annoying system I’ve worked on in the last 5 years. My gut reaction is of either a hard disk failure or motherboard issue as there’s very little other hardware in the PC. UPDATE:The problem was a knackered hard disk. A re-install on a fresh drive with the 64bit version now has the system working perfectly, at last!
Overall I’m still very pleased with Windows 7, but if I keep getting issues coming at me over the next few weeks I may start to think otherwise…
I guess that for all the Pros there are with networked PC systems running your entertainment, this week I’m starting to experience some of the Cons.
UPDATE 29June: Both systems are flawless in operation and I rarely (if ever) have any problems. Sometimes I manage to get Media Center to restart itself but this is always when I’m minimising it and quickly trying to do something else at the same time, so a little patience from me would stop this from happening.
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