tony spencer

I had to select different country than I live in (I didn’t have example postal code listed) and don’t forget to enter postal code in XXX XX format with space!!!

HERE IS THE RESOLUTION FOR THIS ISSUE

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905945

That’s the solution for Error Code 14 but has anyone got any ideas for Error Code 4 that I’m getting

I’ve already checked time-sync and that doesn’t resolve

Thanks

I had the issue of being off by an hour, and found this blog. However, none of the suggests seemed to work for me though. For my case, when I turn off DST and the time sync, my time would revert back when I restarted the computer. Then I thought, “Could Media center be looking at some other clock, like the BIOS, instead of the time display on the task bar?” So, testing it out, I rebooted and went into the BIOS, and sure enough, the time there was wrong. I changed that, and my media center works now w/ the right time. I even have DST turned on.

Here are my steps, in case anyone is interested.

1. turn off the time sync (you can leave DST if you want)
2. reboot the computer and go into the BIOS (could be F2, F5, F8 or whatever it is. Mine’s was F2)
3. modify BIOS date, save and exit
4. restart Windows and verify by turning on Media Center

Hope that helps!

Hi everyone, finally found a great website, I have Guide Isuue in MCE and guide is off, I have one question that even i am living in baltimore GMT -5 Eastern Time, My Computer Clock Shows the Time 9:14 instead of 6:14, Please help me with the issue.

Hi – ref my problem below
I’m wondering if Media Center has lost the URL of where it’s supposed to be downloading EPG from does anyone know where this info is held (Registry Loc or File Loc) and the URL it should be trying. I’ve tried putting the EPG URL in the Browser and it gives the correct response.

I’m having a nightmare trying to download the MCE2005 TV Guide in both Guide Setup and Guide Refresh I get an Internet Connection Failure message with (Code 4). This used to work fine until 2 weeks ago, I havn’t changed anything on my PC, I’ve tried disabling Firewalls, Spybot and AVG Anti Virus – still comes up with same error. I’m using Netgear Wireless Router and have no other connectivity problems with any other software. The time and date are synched correctly. Any Help would be really really appreciated as I’ve been two weeks without my guide and thinking about scrapping all together and getting a PVR instead !

System or BIOS clock are not the culprits?
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\EPG\discSVC” is showing the correct address?

Check the default shares. Eg. In IE address, \\pc_name\c$ or \\pc_name\admin$

Replace pc_name with the name of your pc. (Not sure what’s the name of your pc? Use run “hostname” in a DOS window)

If you cannot access the shares, check with “net share”. C$, ADMIN$, IPC$ are all listed?

Then this might be the solution:

Check Systems log in Event Viewer. See if you get event 2011.
“The server’s configuration parameter “irpstacksize” is too small for the server to use a local device. Please increase the value of this parameter.”

I search MS KBase articles for “IRPStackSize” and created a key with value 15 (hex) in my MCE2005.

My MCE TV Guide is working now.

k here is a manual fix that i came up with. no need to d/l anything.

in ur windows “date and time settings” – “time zones” you will change ur timezone to match ur mce guide time.

for example, my guide was displaying shows 1 hour too early. i changed my time zone from GMT-08:00 to GMT-07:00 to match. now uncheck “automatically adjust clock for daylight savings” and uncheck “automatcically synchronize with an internet time server” in the “internet time” tab.

the key is to now manual change the time back to the correct one, even tho ur timezone may be off. click ok.

now open up media center and look at ur guide, all the shows and times are correct again.

Thank you very much! This solved my problems.

I’m having a different problem. The guide will download and all is good, as long as I’m hard wired into my network. As soon as I go wireless, I can’t get the guide anymore. All of my other software works over the wireless, Web, IM, Windows Updates… I’m running a Linksys WUSB54AG with the latest drivers from the vendor. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a ton! This solved my problem.

I have Windows Vista Media Center and I am getting the code 14 error as well. Clocks are fine, time zone is correct. Worked fine for 10 months then stopped. Any connections to Linksys Wireless routers? I have one and will take it out of the mix to see if it has any effect, otherwise no changes in past year.

Ok, I’m Central Time zone (US) Windows Media Center showed correct time same as Desktop Clock. Guide was incorrect (2 hours ahead) Crazy, I know. I changed the time zone on the desktop to Pacific thinking it would be a long shot. Behold, the Guide displayed correctly with what was playing on each channel; However, the time on the Desktop and Windows Media Center was now 2 hours early. For you people who didn’t follow… My correct time lets say is 5:00pm the the time on the Desktop and Windows Media Center now shows 3:00pm. I then went back and changed the time zone on the Desktop back to Central (done). Now the Desktop shows the correct time (5:00pm) but, Windows Media Center shows 3:00pm. Shut down Windows Media Center and re-open. Worked. Windows Media Center showed the correct time (5:00pm) same as the Desktop (5:00pm).

Try it it, it might just work for you…
Adam

*** BIG HUG TO YOU *** Just wasted an hour online with a technician who recommended I reset everything Windows Media Center related (original error message was Code:34). During the reset process, got Code 14, googled it and came up with your response. Don’t know how, but when changing the time Sunday afternoon, I’d reset the month, too! Reset the date and ta-da – my Guide has returned. ***BIG HUGE HUGS***

Hi this is in response to what raj said to fernan on 2007.
well puerto rico does have support on the guide.
fernan the zip code to use is 00901 there you will be given a list of providers for the area of san juan which i believe is the only area supported. they support dish and the local cable providers which are onelink and whtv

Thank You thank you…..helped me so much. That time sync is a dosey. They don’t have anything like this on MS website.

thanks so much for this post. i never would have figured this out.

Thanks thats all i have to say.

I just turned off the autosync for the time/date and it started working…. weird…

WOW! A very simple fix for a problem that I thought was more complicated! VERY HELPFUL– thanks!!!

Brised,

I entered your listed sites into Internet explorer security as Trusted Sites and now the Guide downloads properly (mine was a Vista 64 problem) – I needed the sites to be able to get around that one.

Thanks,
LJ.

I was having the same problem, guide off by two hours. I swear to God I set the time zone when I first got the computer, but THAT was the problem.

Go to your bottom-right-hand corner, on Vista, click, click on change time and settings, click on change time zone, then change your time zone, apply changes…then open your media center, and re-run your guide setup to import the new guide.

Enjoy the recording of the correct shows.

Found the time issue to be the core problem reset the time manually but the internet time settings are returning an error.. Guess i better search for this related issue elsewhere.

Wow and thank you. Wish I would have found your resolution 3 weeks ago.

For Puerto Rico, which I’ve had the problem of being unable to download listings for Media Center, FINALLY, after checking this blog twice in one year, I understand how it works.
Fernan, in the MC options chose USA not PR, and use 00901.
Then will it work.

I used to be able to download the guide, then I switched from wired to wireless/WEP. I keep getting the message that I cannot connect to the internet to download the guide, although my browsers work. I am able to download the guide when connecting wireless with no encryption. Any ideas?

It was Norton!!! Now if I could only get it to synch up and turn off the firewall for the five minutes every two weeks that I need to get the guide, I’d be perfect!

For anyone that has the 1 hour off media center guide problem download the microsoft daylight savings patch and it should fix your problem. I just did it and it worked. So happy

I’m on central time and change it to mountain time. Everything works good now. LOL ericy had the fix a year ago.

Hey,Brett ~~ which patch?? Is there one for 2009??

Thanks!

time.windows.com havent updated there clocks yet we are an hour in front of theres at the moment

I kept on having the same code 14 and I finally just turned off my firewall for long enough to download the guideand setup the tv