Comments on: Windows Media Center Edition with 3 tuners

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:20:22 +0000

Thanks. That might help some of the people ending up here in search for an answer.

By: Omar Malik

Omar Malik — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:28:07 +0000

For those of you with problems on intel desktop 915 and 925 boards, try going to an earlier bios. I had the same problem with the video card not working properly when i insert my nvtv-dual card in the machine. It wanted to use the same memory space as the x600 in the machine. I read about someone swapping his 915pbl out with another one and the problem disappeared. lucky for me he noted it was running on the initial bios release. I tried flashing from the newest one back to the original release bios and the problem went away. Now to find out which bios release caused these issues and maybe drop intel a line about it, though i doubt they’ll do much, if anything.

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:50:50 +0000

That’s really useful! Thanks.

By: Mark Baumgarten

Mark Baumgarten — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:27:31 +0000

Here is additional info for the UserSettings part you need to have correctly configured. It helped me to solve my problems.

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=5002

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:13:58 +0000

I have the same problem on a Intel 915PBL MB. Video drivers will not load on the MCE 500.

By: Eirik (Administrator)

Eirik (Administrator) — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:39:18 +0000

This sounds strange. I know a lot of people using the PVR500 on a lot of different MBs. Your story has now made me aware of an incompatibility issue but in general I would say “pick the MB that fits yur needs”.

After your story I would say “Check the forums and read what you can before choosing. Maybe make sure that you have the possibility of returning the card if it is not compatible with the PVR500…”

In other words, I have no idea what cards support the 500 and what cards that will cause trouble…

By: Tate Antrim

Tate Antrim — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:29:07 +0000

What is the best high-end motherboard for an MCE500? I’m using an Intel 925XECV2 and it won’t work with the 500. It can’t seem to load the video driver and various other system drivers when the 500 is in the system so I’m looking for a motherboard that will “work” with the 500.

By: Eirik (Administrator)

Eirik (Administrator) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:31:44 +0000

I have had other comments as well saying that this is difficult. It seems like people are solving it by simply playing around with the registry entries and all of a sudden ends up with something that works.

Not much to document as long as that is the approach…

Most of the people I have heard from have several cards from Hauppauge, and not combinations of vendors. Still, I don’t know if that’s the problem in your case.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:25:31 +0000

I cannot get the hack to work. I also wind up with about 7 registry entries for tuners and do not know what to do. I have a dual tuner Hauppague 500MCE and a single tuner Avermedia card. Any help would greatly be appreciated.