Windows Media Center does not pick up my TV Tuner

I recntly bought my computer like 2 months ago and it came with a tv tuner.
it was working fine intill windows vista did some kind of update and now
Window Media center says that there is no Tv tuner installed when i try to
watch tv. I have taken out the tv tuner card, restarted my computer and then
pug it back in. the device manager says that the device is working properly.
i also updated the driver for the turner. I think there is something wrong
with Windows Media Center. Can anyone help me? the tv tuner is a Hauppauge
WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC Combo

Ron\(Tx\)
Sun Nov 04 20:33:00 PST 2007


"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC252492-290F-4459-AF23-65C9635614D0@microsoft.com...
>I recntly bought my computer like 2 months ago and it came with a tv tuner.
> it was working fine intill windows vista did some kind of update and now
> Window Media center says that there is no Tv tuner installed when i try to
> watch tv. I have taken out the tv tuner card, restarted my computer and
> then
> pug it back in. the device manager says that the device is working
> properly.
> i also updated the driver for the turner. I think there is something wrong
> with Windows Media Center. Can anyone help me? the tv tuner is a Hauppauge
> WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC Combo

HP desktop, same tuner, same problem. WMC recorded a program on Tues, but
not on Wed. I checked and there had been an update Tues night, and I had
earlier upgraded AIM. I uninstalled AIM and also reinstalled the driver.
No luck. Also System Restore to a date before the update didn't help. I
went to Hauppauge's site and download their driver and software. I am using
that now because HP's solution is to use their restore disks, and until WMC
is more stable I wont restore my computer using HP's restore disks.

Ron

Fake
Sun Nov 04 22:00:00 PST 2007

Im not sure what's going on but i am having the same problem, this happened
to be today, yesterday i saw a Windows Update icon in my tray and but i dont
think it upgraded, but any how my media center isn't working as well.

At first i wasn't getting anything from the channels, then i thought i would
have to set it up again, so i went to Setup TV Signal, and try to set it up,
but it said Tuner Not Found. So everytime i go there now i see Tuner
Unavailable. I tried two restore points, and upgraded the driver for the
Tuner but still nothing.

Can anyone help?

"Ron(Tx)" wrote:

>
> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC252492-290F-4459-AF23-65C9635614D0@microsoft.com...
> >I recntly bought my computer like 2 months ago and it came with a tv tuner.
> > it was working fine intill windows vista did some kind of update and now
> > Window Media center says that there is no Tv tuner installed when i try to
> > watch tv. I have taken out the tv tuner card, restarted my computer and
> > then
> > pug it back in. the device manager says that the device is working
> > properly.
> > i also updated the driver for the turner. I think there is something wrong
> > with Windows Media Center. Can anyone help me? the tv tuner is a Hauppauge
> > WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC Combo
>
> HP desktop, same tuner, same problem. WMC recorded a program on Tues, but
> not on Wed. I checked and there had been an update Tues night, and I had
> earlier upgraded AIM. I uninstalled AIM and also reinstalled the driver.
> No luck. Also System Restore to a date before the update didn't help. I
> went to Hauppauge's site and download their driver and software. I am using
> that now because HP's solution is to use their restore disks, and until WMC
> is more stable I wont restore my computer using HP's restore disks.
>
> Ron
>
>

Fake
Mon Nov 05 10:34:01 PST 2007

Mine has been fixed, i just shut down my computer for the night, usually i
leave my computer on for weeks, but this time i shut it down for few hours
and when i started media center again it let me set it up again.

Ron\(Tx\)
Tue Nov 06 09:47:12 PST 2007


"Ron(Tx)" <arkay_HPremove@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC252492-290F-4459-AF23-65C9635614D0@microsoft.com...
>>I recntly bought my computer like 2 months ago and it came with a tv
>>tuner.
>> it was working fine intill windows vista did some kind of update and now
>> Window Media center says that there is no Tv tuner installed when i try
>> to
>> watch tv. I have taken out the tv tuner card, restarted my computer and
>> then
>> pug it back in. the device manager says that the device is working
>> properly.
>> i also updated the driver for the turner. I think there is something
>> wrong
>> with Windows Media Center. Can anyone help me? the tv tuner is a
>> Hauppauge
>> WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC Combo
>
> HP desktop, same tuner, same problem. WMC recorded a program on Tues, but
> not on Wed. I checked and there had been an update Tues night, and I had
> earlier upgraded AIM. I uninstalled AIM and also reinstalled the driver.
> No luck. Also System Restore to a date before the update didn't help. I
> went to Hauppauge's site and download their driver and software. I am
> using that now because HP's solution is to use their restore disks, and
> until WMC is more stable I wont restore my computer using HP's restore
> disks.
>
> Ron

While researching this problem for my HP, I found this site:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c01187871&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

The "services" step fixed my problem. Also, the video is sharper with the
drivers I installed from Hauppauge's site for my WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC
Combo.

Ron

Mike
Tue Nov 06 19:01:00 PST 2007

this fixed my problem! thanks alot!

"Ron(Tx)" wrote:

>
> "Ron(Tx)" <arkay_HPremove@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uc9G%23T2HIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:AC252492-290F-4459-AF23-65C9635614D0@microsoft.com...
> >>I recntly bought my computer like 2 months ago and it came with a tv
> >>tuner.
> >> it was working fine intill windows vista did some kind of update and now
> >> Window Media center says that there is no Tv tuner installed when i try
> >> to
> >> watch tv. I have taken out the tv tuner card, restarted my computer and
> >> then
> >> pug it back in. the device manager says that the device is working
> >> properly.
> >> i also updated the driver for the turner. I think there is something
> >> wrong
> >> with Windows Media Center. Can anyone help me? the tv tuner is a
> >> Hauppauge
> >> WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC Combo
> >
> > HP desktop, same tuner, same problem. WMC recorded a program on Tues, but
> > not on Wed. I checked and there had been an update Tues night, and I had
> > earlier upgraded AIM. I uninstalled AIM and also reinstalled the driver.
> > No luck. Also System Restore to a date before the update didn't help. I
> > went to Hauppauge's site and download their driver and software. I am
> > using that now because HP's solution is to use their restore disks, and
> > until WMC is more stable I wont restore my computer using HP's restore
> > disks.
> >
> > Ron
>
> While researching this problem for my HP, I found this site:
>
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c01187871&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
>
> The "services" step fixed my problem. Also, the video is sharper with the
> drivers I installed from Hauppauge's site for my WinTV HVR - 1600 NTSC/ATSC
> Combo.
>
> Ron
>
>