No thanks for the memory!

Well after much faffing about because of memory problems, I've managed to install MediaPortal and got some Freeview channels going...

As you can recall, I am just trying to get my old P4 PC setup for a quick and dirty test... I went out and stupidly bought a 2Gb memory upgrade from eBay which caused all the trouble. Read this post (and thread) I made on the computer section of the DS forums to see what I had to cope with!

So after downloading MemTest, and running it with one stick at a time in place, it identified that one of the 2Gb was faulty! This has taught me a lesson not to get RAM second hand off eBay, for sure! Well, I suppose the good thing is that 1Gb was OK and with that added to my existing 1Gb, the PC was in a better shape to run MediaPortal.

Another piece of good news was that I found my NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE GPU had not decided to give up the ghost on me after all - the faulty memory must have screwed up its function - as at one stage it died on me, and I thought it had gone for good!

So tonight, I managed to get the memory, GPU and a re-installed MediaPortal to work with the Pinnacle 7010iX tuner card, but only with Freeview channels. I could not get my newly cabled satellite feed to work (I could not perform a scan - no channels detected) and I suspect that the feed is borked (as it sits on the end of a DiSEqC switch). I will have to try the card on my currently working Freesat feeds tomorrow...