With these steps completed, I was able to see a frozen picture on the Live Screen but could access the Setup Menu and see that my video was being recorded. An audio device must be connected to the audio output or you will receive. Hardware Acceleration but be turned on or you will receive &. Screen resolution must be set for 1280 x 1024 or you will get grey/blue/green screens. The 8 Channel DVR MUST have the specific driver issued by Netrome or you will receive. Now, I started tweaking the system slightly to find out what difference would cause what results. I then installed the 8 channel DVR card using the Netrome driver that I found online (which I can provide to anyone via email, if requested).

I then updated all the drivers for my machine and the newly installed motherboard which came with a driver disk.

I did a fresh install of XP, set up a 50GB and 100GB Parition. I chose to revert to XP since I felt it was closer to the preinstalled Vista that came with Blackbox. So now I was at a crossroads and had the choice to update the system to Windows 7 or revert to XP, since these were two operating systems I actually owned. I explained Netrome has gone out of business, but in the end they offered no support and pretty much told me I had no options. It repeatedly said that the key 'was already in use.' I called Microsoft which explained to me that the product key was blocked and that I had to contact the manufacturer (Netrome). I tried repeatedly to enter the product key that is mounted on the machine, but not luck.

After looking into this phenomenon, I found that the Windows Vista Home Basic Authentication had failed. Recently, I found that the computer would automatically shut itself down after about 3 hours. I've finally been able to workshop the program and my Netrome BlackBox NS840 system and find some operating protocols that must be active for the system to work. We are at a stable state now with our system and are able to record video. So I wanted to give a SitRep for anyone that is still using this system.

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