ATI 650 Combo Tuner

[whobu23]

I have an ATI PCIe combo tuner card. I have seen previous posts in this forum regarding the issue of Clear QAM not displaying. I also have this issue.

I have tried a number of things from installing and re-installing GB-PVR to updating the drivers on the ATI card (which is a pain since all drivers over 7.XX cause vista to crash when trying to uninstall the drivers so you need to rollback the system everytime). I have tried a number of the Vista drives as well as a few XP drivers and still no QAM.

I set up up the tuner cards in config with one being an Analog Recorder and the other a Digital. I try to map the digital channels to EPG and I see nothing during the scan and when complete the message displayed says no channels have been found.

I know my cable company supports QAM since I can get both the digital and analog tuners working in the Media Center that came with the tuner card.

I have Vista Sp1 but I still can not get the Clear QAM in Windows media center either I can only get the Analog channels. This goes the same for GB-PVR, I can get the analog channels but I can not get the Clear QAM

Can someone fill me in on the drivers I should be using for the 650 card or on any solution, I have put some hours in now and I am at a loss.

[sub]

Unfortunately there is no confirmed QAM support for the 650. I think one user indicated they had it going, but others have tried and failed. Unfortunately QAM support wasnt covered by the Microsoft BDA standard and each manufacturer has implemented things slightly differently. I think this situation will start to improve in the near future as the next version of MCE draws nearer.

Sorry, I know this doesnt help you because you've already got your device, but for future users thinking about buying a device for QAM in the future, stick to one of the common devices like the Hauppauge HVR1600 or HVR1800 etc, HDHomeRun or the VistaView QAM devices.

[whobu23]

I thought that a few people had GB-PVR up and running using this card. I do not care so much about MCE I am more concerned with GB-PVR. What do I need to do to get GB_PVR up and running.

It sees both tuners and I have set them both up however when I go to map the digital channels I do not get any channels found. Then when I go to close the mapping screen it locks up the application to the point I have to restart my computer.

Thanks for any help

[5l4k3r]

Hi, I got this card to work in windows XP... I tried to upgrade to Vista, and it would not tune QAM. (It was a lite version, that might have something to do with it?) I gave up after messing around with it for a few hours and re-installed XP. I'm not sure if anyone else got it to work in Vista or not yet...