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Posted by: jes91504

I know this has been covered, but all the posts, as well as the article on the support web site, concern Windows XP. What if one gets the "tivo connect beacon not available" error on Windows 98 SE? No, I have no software firewall, though the router has a hardware firewall.

The PC is accessing the network fine, the Tivo is accessing the network fine, but no luck with Tivo Desktop.

Thanks.

Posted by: TiVoBill

quote:
Originally posted by jes91504
I know this has been covered, but all the posts, as well as the article on the support web site, concern Windows XP. What if one gets the "tivo connect beacon not available" error on Windows 98 SE? No, I have no software firewall, though the router has a hardware firewall.

The PC is accessing the network fine, the Tivo is accessing the network fine, but no luck with Tivo Desktop.

Thanks.

We are aware of an issue that can cause the symptoms you mention. If you have a lot of services starting up with Windows, the TiVo Server service may time out during startup. That will cause the "TiVo Beacon Unavailable" message to appear. The only current workaround is to start TiVo server manually from TiVo Desktop after startup has been completed. You might also try to reduce the number of services starting up to reduce the likelihood of that happening. The developers are aware of that issue and hope to be able to make it less likely in future versions of TiVo Desktop.

Posted by: jes91504

Thanks for the reply.

However, if I try and start the TiVo server manually from within the TiVo publisher, I get the same message. There is a pause, like something is timing out, but it fails this way as well.

Posted by: Webchump

Originally posted by TiVoBill

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[The developers are aware of that issue and hope to be able to make it less likely in future versions of TiVo Desktop.

I'm just surprised to hear that there are going to be future versions! Its been TOO long.

Posted by: TiVoBill

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Originally posted by jes91504
Thanks for the reply.

However, if I try and start the TiVo server manually from within the TiVo publisher, I get the same message. There is a pause, like something is timing out, but it fails this way as well.

If you get it when you try to start the server from TiVo Publisher as well, the service may not be able to start for some other reason. I'm not familiar with how services are managed in Windows 98 so I'm afraid I can't be of further help in that area.

Posted by: jes91504

After reading some similar threads in other forums here, the topic of ports seemed to be a possibility. So I disabled CookieCop, which serves as a proxy to block cookies and pop-ups, and then the TiVo server worked fine.

Now I just need to replace the Netgear MA111 adapter with one that doesn't drop the connection every few minutes...