The company will not send recovery discs, as not only Acer, but HP and Compaq no longer provide discs anymore, just image on HDD which means the tower needs to be returned to factory for re-imaging and will cost a bit, especially freight, and there time as there won't be warranty.Įdited by Izzy, 22 February 2008 - 04:17 PM. This build keeps the quirk of using the Arial font on Media Center.
well i'm guessing there isn't such thing as free but i suppose if i could get something cheap it wouldn't be so bad. Windows XP Media Center Edition build 2600.2094 (private/xpspmce(wmbla).040315-0957) is a beta build of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, which was shared by BetaArchive user marcoguy on 19 December 2016. The current Windows Media Center SDK is designed for Windows Media Center version 9.0 in Windows 7.
Each release also has a corresponding software development kit (SDK).
Then i could post on eBay wanting restore discs for my PC. Each release of Windows Media Center builds upon features introduced in previous versions. Wouldn't be in the BIOS, but then Vista probably destroyed it too. becaue my old acer system i upgraded the HDD to a larger one, which is blank as can be and it worked. BUt another question to that, the acer guy i spoked to if i were to have restore disc it wouldn't work anyway i can't see why as it will al be on disc.
If i could find someone with the same PC Aspire E700 with MCE and could get restore discs, would that work to install? meaning i change the product key because i would guess it would install there product key. Would it be illegal if i downloaded a copy of MCE but installing with my Product Key? I suppose it still comes under Pirate.
The COA stick on the system is Acer Incorporated, so i do not know if i purchased a disc from eBay (which i have looked but there aren't any there) would allow me to use it as each disc has its own COA and i don't know if you could install it without a produck key or edit the registry to put in my product key. So although you can install XP-MCE, don't expect the Media Center portion to work, unless you're installing this in Boot Camp and you have 256MB physical video RAM.I did have my HDD imaged before i installed Vista incase the installation went stupid, but the computer store person said that the image annot be burned to Discs, either didn't want me to know that its possible, which i do know it is, or they didn't want to do it, but my old system has restore discs which seem to be Norton Ghost made ones. The max video ram for a VMWare virtual machine is is 128MB. Anything less gives stange problems, if the Media Center app even starts at all. The latest version, and the first to become available via the Retail Channels for System Builders. Second, Meda Center requires 256MB of video ram. Either convert the disks to ISOs or Google on installing XP-MCE to Boot camp for workarounds. The Mac CD eject button may not work during the initial install. You need to switch the CDs during install. First, the whitebox XP-MCE comes on 2 CDs. You need a "whitebox" version of XP-MCE, rather than a "branded" version of Windows.Īssuming you still obtain a copy of XP-MCE, since it's not being sold anymore, a couple of caveats. Dont have recovery media and hard drive has unformatted 245Gb partition & 5Gb. PC is Desktop, Advent T9206 with OEM Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 DSG Retail Limited sticker on it. 'Simple' job, install Windows XPMCE2005 on blank partition. That's what's probably causing the reboots. Ive had this problem a few times but cant seem to get round this one.
Since you have a Gateway branded copy of XP-MCE, the installation is probably installing drivers specific to that model of Gateway that the disks were intended for.
That said, XP-MCE is normally only available as an OEM install. It will work in a virtual machine, Fusion or otherwise. It has the Media Center stuff added and the ability to join domains disabled.