Did the latest Windows Updates break WMC tuners?

[dnabsuh]

I have a Ceten 4 Channel PCIe InfiniTV, and WMC has been having tuner problems for the past 3 days, In 3/11,I see there was a series of patches that were loaded, and I was wondering if anyone knows if any of them broke Tuning - when I go to each channel, it says the tuner can't get a signal. Ceton diagnostics says signal strength is -14db

[dnabsuh]

I did restore the PC back to a restore point set on 3/9, and the tuners work, so it is one of the patches that came out this week.

[adam1991]

Good catch.

This reinforces my stand that one should never let updates automatically come down to a working WMC system. If it's working, don't fix it.

[Billyray520]

There was a WMC patch that came out this month?? It didn't show up on my HTPC or Desktop that uses my Ceton InfiniTV 6ETH Do you have a KB number?

[mcewinter]

My machines are updated...no problems.

[mdavej]

Same here. Lots of updates on 3/11, no issues.

[STC]

If you have a dual boot setup there was a KB that borked things. My laptop had two failed updates, blue screened once unattended and downloaded a fix patch the following day. Not sure of KB number am out right now.

[STC]

Back home. Here's more info.
May or may not be related to your woes.
FWIW my HTPC (Single OS boot) has not had problems.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13 ... s_7_patch/

[dppierson]

I've recently been having issues where Media Center (ehshell) would inexplicably hang. As with dnabsuh, I went back to a restore point of 3/9, and the issues went away, so it's almost definitely one of the 3/11 patches that broke my Media Center. FWIW, I run Win7Pro, 64bit.

[LuckyDay]

My tuners broke around the time you posted this and I don't even have updates turned on in Windows 8.

I do have WMC set to automatically download data, so that may be what did it. I fixed it pretty quickly by changing some permissions in the EHRCVR service.

[OwenW]

I fixed it pretty quickly by changing some permissions in the EHRCVR service.

Care to share what you did? I started having intermittent problems with tuners (HDHomerun Prime); perhaps your changes will help fix that.

[dppierson]

I have to amend my post of 3/16. Ehshell now hangs regularly, plus I have intermittent events where scheduled programs aren't recorded. There's nothing in the Event Viewer that indicates that WMC even attempted to record these missed shows. The only thing I can see in the Event Viewer that might be remotely related are intermittent failures when WMC attempts to update the program guide.