Yeah, that's usually the first thing I check right after doing a fresh install of Windows. The time and date is correct on EVERY pc in my house.barnabas1969 wrote:@seangrimes: Check your timezone settings to make sure it's correct. If not, fix it and then set the time to the correct time.
This is REALLY a bummer. I've recently installed Windows 8 on a PC twice in the past 3 days and am still having the Playready issue. There have been absolutely NO hardware changes on this PC! It's a Zotac ZBOXHD-ID34BR.
About 2 weeks ago, I had Playready issues on 3 of the 5 PC's in my house that run WMC. I was able to fix the Playready on those PC's by uninstalling the Digital Cable Advisor, uninstalling Playready and then uninstalling the Ceton drivers and rebooting. I then re installed the Digital Cable Advisor, re installed the Ceton drivers and rebooted. I then went through the live TV setup and everything worked fine. Well, at least everything went fine for a week on all except for 2 PC's.
I also have another PC that is having a Playready issue. It's a beefy server PC that I built. It's sits in my basement isolated in my networking center room. It had NEVER had Playready issues prior to me disconnecting my VGA monitor and connecting it to a Vizio Tv via an HDMI cable. I'm using an onboard HDMI connection on the motherboard. Is that considered a hardware change? If so, Playready isn't very forgiving. I haven't had much time to fool around with it lately.
Is it possible that my Zotac ZBOXHD-ID34BR just isn't cut out for my TV setup? I've asked the guys at Ceton about this and told them that it's actually not within specs., but they've never given me an answer to that question.
Is is possible that Microsoft flags certain PC's for some strange reason which prevents them from updating Playready?
I'm not sure what to think anymore because everyone keeps telling me that's it's either a hardware change or an incorrect time/date setting. My times are correct on ALL of my PC's. I've only had one slight hardware change on my basement PC (monitor) and no changes on any other PC's in my house. Uninstalling and reinstalling Windows does not seem to help. Windows update also does not seem to be the culprit.
What else could be causing this?
Here is something else that I've noticed. Ceton's instructions says to install their drivers first, reboot, install the Digital Cable Advisor and then go through Live TV setup. This never works for me. When I perform the steps in this order, WMC usually only gives me access to 2-5 of my 6 tuners. What usually happens is that WMC will say that it detected 6 tuners, but I'm only allowed to use 4 in WMC. It seems as if I always have to install the Digital Cable Advisor first and then install the Ceton drivers for WMC to give me access to all 6 tuners. Could something flaky be going on with the Ceton drivers for Windows 8?