Vista - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II (26xxx)

I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked perfectly.
Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results. I'm
fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a way
to roll back Media Center?

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:04:03 -0800, Mouse in California <Mouse in
California@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked perfectly.
> Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
> tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results. I'm
> fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a way
> to roll back Media Center?

So you installed Vista yourself, it didn't come pre-installed?

OK, chances are it's a driver issue as Hauppauge had a few problems
with Vista compatibility at first. Get the latest driver from
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html (don't
worry about the WinTV2000 app unless you really want to run it) and
follow the instructions for using HCWCLEAR.EXE to remove the old
version first.

That should sort you out.
Simon.

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html

If you get their Wintv2000 application (check around in above Url ) it
should tide you over till there is answer to Mce. Might be source for fix to
your problem as well.
You might find Wintv2000 better than Mce, I do, though it doesn't show
guide.

"Mouse in California" wrote:

> I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked perfectly.
> Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
> tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results. I'm
> fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a way
> to roll back Media Center?

Unfortunately I use MC as a Tivo-type solution for programs that run while
I'm working. WinTV doesn't appear to allow this since you can't use a guide
with it. Thank you for the post though.

"Will" wrote:

> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html
>
> If you get their Wintv2000 application (check around in above Url ) it
> should tide you over till there is answer to Mce. Might be source for fix to
> your problem as well.
> You might find Wintv2000 better than Mce, I do, though it doesn't show
> guide.
>
> "Mouse in California" wrote:
>
> > I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked perfectly.
> > Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
> > tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results. I'm
> > fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a way
> > to roll back Media Center?

"Simon Patten" wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:04:03 -0800, Mouse in California <Mouse in
> California@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked perfectly.
> > Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
> > tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results. I'm
> > fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a way
> > to roll back Media Center?
>
> So you installed Vista yourself, it didn't come pre-installed?
>
> OK, chances are it's a driver issue as Hauppauge had a few problems
> with Vista compatibility at first. Get the latest driver from
> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html (don't
> worry about the WinTV2000 app unless you really want to run it) and
> follow the instructions for using HCWCLEAR.EXE to remove the old
> version first.
>
> That should sort you out.
> Simon.

I have already gone through this proceedure. This is a problem with MC not
the drivers. I've attempted two different tuners and the same issue shows up
in MC. Vista sees the hardware properly but MC does not see it.

Thanks for the post in any case.

Use GB-PVR if you need a TV Guide. I could never get WinTV to work with my
Satellite setup, but GB-PVR worked flawlessly on Vista X64.

"Mouse in California" <MouseinCalifornia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A98E34AE-61E4-4693-B1D3-3A854504A6AD@microsoft.com...
> Unfortunately I use MC as a Tivo-type solution for programs that run while
> I'm working. WinTV doesn't appear to allow this since you can't use a
> guide
> with it. Thank you for the post though.
>
> "Will" wrote:
>
>> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html
>>
>> If you get their Wintv2000 application (check around in above Url ) it
>> should tide you over till there is answer to Mce. Might be source for fix
>> to
>> your problem as well.
>> You might find Wintv2000 better than Mce, I do, though it doesn't show
>> guide.
>>
>> "Mouse in California" wrote:
>>
>> > I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked
>> > perfectly.
>> > Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see
>> > the
>> > tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same
>> > results. I'm
>> > fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there
>> > a way
>> > to roll back Media Center?

Thanks Keith! This appears to work perfectly. WinTV was problematic at best
(not to mention not having the guide for future recording). GB-PVR was a bit
more extensive to setup, but works almost exactly like WMC.

Mouse

"Keith" wrote:

> Use GB-PVR if you need a TV Guide. I could never get WinTV to work with my
> Satellite setup, but GB-PVR worked flawlessly on Vista X64.
>
> "Mouse in California" <MouseinCalifornia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:A98E34AE-61E4-4693-B1D3-3A854504A6AD@microsoft.com...
> > Unfortunately I use MC as a Tivo-type solution for programs that run while
> > I'm working. WinTV doesn't appear to allow this since you can't use a
> > guide
> > with it. Thank you for the post though.
> >
> > "Will" wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo...rt_pvr150.html
> >>
> >> If you get their Wintv2000 application (check around in above Url ) it
> >> should tide you over till there is answer to Mce. Might be source for fix
> >> to
> >> your problem as well.
> >> You might find Wintv2000 better than Mce, I do, though it doesn't show
> >> guide.
> >>
> >> "Mouse in California" wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked
> >> > perfectly.
> >> > Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see
> >> > the
> >> > tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same
> >> > results. I'm
> >> > fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there
> >> > a way
> >> > to roll back Media Center?
>

Do you have Nero 7 installed? I installed Nero 7 and it hosed my relation
between Vista MCE and my haupagge card. Eneded up doing a clean install of
vista, and not it happily co-operates with my Win TV PVR 150.


"Mouse in California" <Mouse in California@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:A1C0D86E-DD48-4599-BD0A-8F3E0E6AD1AC@microsoft.com...
>I have this Tuner Card in a Gateway 832GM. Under XP MCE it worked
>perfectly.
> Vista sees the card and installs drivers for it, but MC does not see the
> tuner. I've even plugged my Angel USB Tuner in and have the same results.
> I'm
> fairly positive that this is a MC issue and not a Vista issue. Is there a
> way
> to roll back Media Center?


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I Just bought one of these PVR150 Media Centre kits, Works perfectly in xp but not in Vista. I downloaded the latest drivers but when I try to use it I get strange results.

The software scans, finds the stations then when you try to watch, where the picture would be is just black. ( no sound either ) sometimes we have a variation where the picture is see through ( IE you can see the desktop )

Media centre just crashes !

Hardware is

Itel DP965LT
Intel Core 2 6400
2 GB Ram
4 x 400 GB Sata
Geforce 7600GT ( Latest drivers )
Creative soundblaster live 5.1

Vista 64 Ultimate


UPDATE

Just Installed the GB-PVR software and I have a picture !

I would still like to get it working as it should.

Thanks Keith, nice tip