SageTV Service crashes after Windows XP autoupdate

[Goodspike]

Originally Posted by Oats

Your PVR could be crashing for any number of reasons, just because you have windows update disabled doesn't mean it is the issue. Have you done a virus and spyware scan? What makes you think not updating is the problem?.

Actually, the fact that autoupdates is disabled means that the autoupdates are not the problem.

A total guess would be that the machine has become infected because the updates were not installed. Somewhat a long shot, but about 100% more likely than the problem being that autoupdates is diabled.

[Red Barchetta]

What makes me wonder, is that many of us have started having almost the same problem, around the same time. Several of us have even re-formatted, and re-installed and have still not resolved the problem.

[mkanet]

The best way to identify where the problem is, is to find out what's common /unique in the configurations of the people that are experiencing this problem.

I had a problem with SageTVservce crashing when heavily used a few days in a row. It took me several months to find out what on my PC was crashing it. In my case, the ORB Networks software that I had installed was making universal plug and plug configuration requests while universal plug and play was disabled on my machine. For some odd reason that would eventually make SageTVservice crash if there were enough upnp requests made. I can't believe I was able to figure that one out!