Update Rollup for Media PC Failing

When attempting to install rollup KB900325, it fails every time. Have been in
contact with Microsoft Tech Support, but not resolve as of yet. Have removed
one past update that was to have worked. Still nothing working. I am trying
to get this rollup because it is required to run the new WMP. Any help
appreciated.

Try downloading the update directly, then install:

April 2006 Update Rollup for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB914548)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

This update supersedes all updates since Update Rollup 2 (KB900325) for
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"BRH" wrote:

| When attempting to install rollup KB900325, it fails every time. Have been in
| contact with Microsoft Tech Support, but not resolve as of yet. Have removed
| one past update that was to have worked. Still nothing working. I am trying
| to get this rollup because it is required to run the new WMP. Any help
| appreciated.

OK. Tried that. An error message stated that one of the prerequisites failed.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Try downloading the update directly, then install:
>
> April 2006 Update Rollup for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB914548)
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> This update supersedes all updates since Update Rollup 2 (KB900325) for
> Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
> Microsoft Community Newsgroups
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*----------------
>
> "BRH" wrote:
>
> | When attempting to install rollup KB900325, it fails every time. Have been in
> | contact with Microsoft Tech Support, but not resolve as of yet. Have removed
> | one past update that was to have worked. Still nothing working. I am trying
> | to get this rollup because it is required to run the new WMP. Any help
> | appreciated.
>
>

I have the same problem as BRH and when i tried to manually download and
install the rollup failed with the same error too. "Setup cannot continue
because one or more prerequistites required to install KB914548 failed. For
more details check the log file c:\windows\KB914548"

The log says:
[KB914548.log]
0.110:
================================================== ==============================
0.110: 2006/05/27 19:47:15.593 (local)
0.110: c:\e5469131e6a35dbd5570a8e9bfe5\update\update.exe (version 6.2.29.0)
0.125: Hotfix started with following command line:
0.328: Return Value From IsMediaCenterPC = 1
0.328: IsMediaCenterPC returned value( 0x1 ) which is Equal To 0x1
0.328: Condition succeeded for section PreReq.SingleOp.MediaCenter in Line 1
of PreRequisite
0.328: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Ident is Not
Equal To Specified Value
0.344: Condition Check for Line 2 of PreRequisite returned FALSE
0.344: ReadStringFromInf: UpdSpGetLineText failed: 0xe0000102
0.344: KB914548 Setup encountered an error: Setup cannot continue because
one or more prerequisites required to install KB914548 failed. For More
details check the Log File c:\windows\KB914548.log
0.344: ReadStringFromInf: UpdSpGetLineText failed: 0xe0000102
0.344: Setup cannot continue because one or more prerequisites required to
install KB914548 failed. For More details check the Log File
c:\windows\KB914548.log
13.657: Message displayed to the user: Setup cannot continue because one or
more prerequisites required to install KB914548 failed. For More details
check the Log File c:\windows\KB914548.log
13.657: User Input: OK
13.657: Update.exe extended error code = 0xf0f4
13.657: Update.exe return code was masked to 0x643 for MSI custom action
compliance.
0.047:
================================================== ==============================
0.063: 2006/05/27 22:38:01.306 (local)
0.063: c:\9cb11b6eb9e36470a878a26625\update\update.exe (version 6.2.29.0)
0.063: Hotfix started with following command line:
0.141: Return Value From IsMediaCenterPC = 1
0.141: IsMediaCenterPC returned value( 0x1 ) which is Equal To 0x1
0.141: Condition succeeded for section PreReq.SingleOp.MediaCenter in Line 1
of PreRequisite
0.141: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Ident is Not
Equal To Specified Value
0.141: Condition Check for Line 2 of PreRequisite returned FALSE
0.141: ReadStringFromInf: UpdSpGetLineText failed: 0xe0000102
0.141: KB914548 Setup encountered an error: Setup cannot continue because
one or more prerequisites required to install KB914548 failed. For More
details check the Log File c:\windows\KB914548.log
0.172: ReadStringFromInf: UpdSpGetLineText failed: 0xe0000102
0.188: Setup cannot continue because one or more prerequisites required to
install KB914548 failed. For More details check the Log File
c:\windows\KB914548.log

I tried a lot of ways, that many people describe here, to overcome this
problem but unfortunatelly nothing happened.
Please help!!!

Thanks in advance, --Stelios--


"BRH" wrote:

> OK. Tried that. An error message stated that one of the prerequisites failed.
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Try downloading the update directly, then install:
> >
> > April 2006 Update Rollup for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB914548)
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
> >
> > This update supersedes all updates since Update Rollup 2 (KB900325) for
> > Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
> >
> > --
> > Carey Frisch
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows - Shell/User
> > Microsoft Community Newsgroups
> > news://msnews.microsoft.com/
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*----------------
> >
> > "BRH" wrote:
> >
> > | When attempting to install rollup KB900325, it fails every time. Have been in
> > | contact with Microsoft Tech Support, but not resolve as of yet. Have removed
> > | one past update that was to have worked. Still nothing working. I am trying
> > | to get this rollup because it is required to run the new WMP. Any help
> > | appreciated.
> >
> >

"Stelios" <> wrote in message
newsBB44B75-922D-431D-9148-
....
> The log says:
....
> 0.328: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Ident is Not
> Equal To Specified Value
> 0.344: Condition Check for Line 2 of PreRequisite returned FALSE
> 0.344: ReadStringFromInf: UpdSpGetLineText failed: 0xe0000102
> 0.344: KB914548 Setup encountered an error: Setup cannot continue because
> one or more prerequisites required to install KB914548 failed.


So what are the pre-req's for KB914548?

<title>April 2006 Update Rollup for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914548

<extract>
Prerequisites
To install this update rollup, you must be running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
You must install the update that is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
900325 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900325/) Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
</extract>


So, do you have 900325 installed?

<title>Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900325


FWIW I find the word Rollup in the title of KB914548 contradictory
and confusing. It appears to me that the Rollup (the prereq) is 900325
and 914548 is just a patch of some kind on it.


Are you trying deliberately to install only one update at a time?
Usually patches which have prereq's will be selected and installed
by WU or AU as a package in the correct order.


If you do have 900325 installed already we had better look at
that registry value which is being checked.

SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Ident

I will assume that it is supposed to be under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
but since I don't have that product I have no way of knowing if the last term
(Ident) is a subkey or a value. Try looking for either. To be absolutely certain
about what is being checked you could run RegMon (e.g. filtering on
at most the name of the update and highlighting Ident.)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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