Error 0x80040707 installing MovieFactory 7 SE

[coolspud]

Hi everybody,

I finally registered X3 and patched it up to patch 3 but now that I want to install MovieFactory 7 SE I get an "Internal Failure" popup which looks like this:

Internal Failure
Error Number: 0x80040707
Description: [blank - nothing here]
[ OK ] <--- click OK button

Has anyone else seen this?
It happens just before firing up the AVControlSDK bit of the DMF7SE installation.

I've checked previous threads:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25869
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=24693&highlight=avcontrol
...but they haven't been helpful. My paths according to the link on the first post are fine. However, I can't find the extracted files mentioned in the second post because when I double click DMF7SEforVSX3.exe it immediately launches the installer and I can't trace where the extracted files should be. I think it runs the whole installation straight off the EXE.

If it makes any difference I ran all the X3 patches first, then tried to install DMF7SE.

So... is this an error message I should be worried about?

My PC is running XP Pro SP3 without any U-lead software that I'm aware of.
It's a reformatted hard drive, 4 Gb RAM, Core i5 cpu.
It's got Office and Adobe CS4 on it, but that's about it apart from Quicktime player, Real player, and Corel's Video Studio X3.

[coolspud]

Ok... I spent a few hours on this but it seems that the problem will go away if you install DMF7SE without changing any of the country/video settings on the installation wizard.

After a few attempts involving flushing out my system with C'Cleaner after uninstalling and reinstalling DMF7SE a few times and almost giving up, I tried one last time and left the standard (default) settings to USA / NTSC and it installed quietly. Grrrr! (I live in the UK which is PAL).

Haven't tried it yet but I suppose you can change these settings when you switch over to DMF7SE from X3 at burn time?!?!?!

Anyhow, hope this helps anyone in the same boat.

[Ken Berry]

It shouldn't be happening at all, and that solution is not really a satisfactory one. Most of us had no trouble installing MF 7 SE to our own country/TV system. But that being said, I have to confess I have no idea what that specific error message indicates.

[coolspud]

I agree, it sounds odd. If it's anything to go by this is an error from InstallShield which, on their customer service/debugging site, asks customers to confirm their registry paths:

http://consumerdocs.installshield.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=Q108167&sliceId=1

If it all looks fine (which on my system it does - plus it's a fresh clean XP Pro installation with SP3) it asks you to contact the software manufacturer and report the problem.

Just to dig a bit deeper, I checked that all my Regional settings were set to United Kingdom: Keyboard, Language and the Unicode settings: Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Regional Options / Languages / Advanced (tabs)

If it helps to diagnose the problem I have a low-end (but works fine) ATI 4350 graphics card with the Catalyst Control Centre installed (it's the software which ATI installs as part of the drivers). It's the most recent one I downloaded from ATI's (AMD now) website, so all drivers are up to date as far as I know.

Just one final bit: seems it did install fine this last time around because X3 doesn't report any further updates available, while before, DMF7SE kept appearing there. I suppose if X3's happy then all's ok...?!

FWIW: Just heard about the earthquake in NZ Ken.