Missed Recordings and Task Scheduler
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:07 pm
Hi all. I used to be a registered member at the old forums. Just recently I have had a need to post here.
My HTPC is running on a Win7 Ultimate, 1 Tb HDD, with two Hauppauge 2250 tuners. For years there have been nothing wrong; series would record, shows would record. Recently I was installing another piece of software that I set a nightly Task to update itself.
However when I went into the Task Scheduler I was prompted with a series of error messages: "The selected task "{0}" no longer exists. To see the current task, click refresh". When researching this, I came across several people with this problem, many of them with just one corrupted task, I had 20+ corrupted tasks. I ended up following this solution to fix all of them: [http://answers.microsoft.com] http://goo.gl/uQRco.
After this, I noticed that if my PC was in sleep mode, the PC would not wake up to record anything. I spent alot of time looking at my Power Management configurations, Wake timers being allowed or not, Devices being set to wake PC or not, yadda yadda yadda. I ended up realizing that perhaps something in my Task Scheduler is not right with whatever Media Center does.
I followed another post from this forum where a lot of people tried to help someone with a similar issue. I am not sure but I tried some of what was suggested in that post. Primarily it was making sure that two tasks were set to "Wake PC" These are MCUPDATE and MCUPDATE_Schedule (I think).
Mine were already set like that. There is also another task named "ScheduleRecording" which was setup to wake PC. However the time set had past.
Yesterday evening I manually went into that task and reset it from 7 days ago to last night. I also took another suggestion from the OP of that thread and I decided to set those three tasks to "Highest Privileges".
This morning my PC was in Sleep mode, and when I woke it my shows had recorded. I don't know if it will continue to record or not. Worse case scenario I have to reinstall everything. However I will try and run the "Media Center Recovery Task", but I am unsure if that will reset my media center "tasks" if other ones are out of sync
My HTPC is running on a Win7 Ultimate, 1 Tb HDD, with two Hauppauge 2250 tuners. For years there have been nothing wrong; series would record, shows would record. Recently I was installing another piece of software that I set a nightly Task to update itself.
However when I went into the Task Scheduler I was prompted with a series of error messages: "The selected task "{0}" no longer exists. To see the current task, click refresh". When researching this, I came across several people with this problem, many of them with just one corrupted task, I had 20+ corrupted tasks. I ended up following this solution to fix all of them: [http://answers.microsoft.com] http://goo.gl/uQRco.
After this, I noticed that if my PC was in sleep mode, the PC would not wake up to record anything. I spent alot of time looking at my Power Management configurations, Wake timers being allowed or not, Devices being set to wake PC or not, yadda yadda yadda. I ended up realizing that perhaps something in my Task Scheduler is not right with whatever Media Center does.
I followed another post from this forum where a lot of people tried to help someone with a similar issue. I am not sure but I tried some of what was suggested in that post. Primarily it was making sure that two tasks were set to "Wake PC" These are MCUPDATE and MCUPDATE_Schedule (I think).
Mine were already set like that. There is also another task named "ScheduleRecording" which was setup to wake PC. However the time set had past.
Yesterday evening I manually went into that task and reset it from 7 days ago to last night. I also took another suggestion from the OP of that thread and I decided to set those three tasks to "Highest Privileges".
This morning my PC was in Sleep mode, and when I woke it my shows had recorded. I don't know if it will continue to record or not. Worse case scenario I have to reinstall everything. However I will try and run the "Media Center Recovery Task", but I am unsure if that will reset my media center "tasks" if other ones are out of sync