Ricardo51 opened this issue on Mar 21, 2006 · 7 posts
Ricardo51 posted Tue, 21 March 2006 at 5:44 PM
I know I'm old fashioned but I've stuck with Poser 4. Unfortunately now I've got my smart new Packard Bell Media Center the damn thing won't intall from CD. Double-click on Setup - nothing. Anyone else had this problem?
barrowlass posted Tue, 21 March 2006 at 5:58 PM
Can't really help you specifically, but I have heard that XP Media Centre and Poser have "issues". Maybe someone with more knowledge of Media Centre can help more. Good luck.
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wheatpenny posted Tue, 21 March 2006 at 6:01 PM Site Admin
I run Pose 6 on an HP media center computer (with XP media center edition) with no problems. I don't know if there are issues with P4 or not tho.
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ockham posted Tue, 21 March 2006 at 6:20 PM
Have you turned off any firewall-type software? Poser's setup just sits there doing nothing when I try to use it while Zone Alarm is running.....
kathym posted Tue, 21 March 2006 at 10:01 PM
Try accessing the setup.exe file from your disc drive inside of the My Computer selection on the start menu. Make sure all fire walls are off (including any that come with XP) and give it a go. On another note - way back in 1995, my first computer was a Packard Bell - hopefully they've improved the quality of their products as well as their support. I had my motherboard go bad within a few months after buying it.
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svdl posted Wed, 22 March 2006 at 1:48 AM
Does your Media Center have 512 MB RAM or more? In that case, your total memory (RAM+virtual) will be over 1 GB. Poser 4 will crash on machines with more than 1 GB of total memory, unless the memory updater is applied. The installer has the same problem. Two possible solutions: 1: disable Virtual Memory (and possibly unplug some memory banks from your mainboard), install Poser 4, install the memory updater, put the memory banks back in your mainboard, and reenable virtual memory. Will not work if your machine has 1 GB memory modules. 2: Upgrade to Poser 6 (recommended)
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Nance posted Wed, 22 March 2006 at 6:25 AM
copy the Poser directory en masse from your old computer?