tuner reconized as IPTV Device unknown how to scan for channels?

[Steve123X]

Steve123x
Personally I build my PCs from individual pieces so tend to buy newer components.
It's not really possible to recommend a PC that will guarantee to run Gen 1 PCIe cards without actually trying one.
HP, Dell, Lenovo etc are generally good machines (especially in a work environment) but they do tend to run very manufacturer biased BIOS's.
The BIOS should detect it's a Gen 1 PCIe card and adjust accordingly but that doesn't seem to be happening in your case.
Given the age of the components, neither Dell nor Hauppage are going to be able to offer much help.
I fully appreciate the financial constraints of buying a modern PC but in some respects you are trying to fit a Cartwheel on a Ford Mustang :-)
Ray
I have a DELL OPTIPLEX 7010 SFF PC i5-3570 3.4Ghz 8GB RAM
When I purchased it 3 years ago I had a choice of windows7 or 10.
I wanted to use this PC for just windows media center which seller claimed worked however media center didn’t work had issues w/ playready.
Since it’s hardware can handle windows10 maybe I can clone the win10 OS on current PC an use in the Dell7010 in hope it’s older PCI ports will recognize my haugpage tuners?
When these Ebay sellers install there copy of windows do they assign the MOBO serial# so the SW will only work w/ the assigned MOBO?

edit: I don't mind purchasing newer PC but don't want to spend more than I need to for just a DVR to record TV programs. please recommend newer that I can get by w/.
Thanks for advising

[mvallevand]

Even though it it only I5 Gen 3 it should be OK for PVR you just need to sort out your PCIe issues. I am not sure how the even added an NVMe drive to something that old, maybe have a look with HWINFO64 to see what it says about the bare ports.

Martin

[Bobins]

I'd try one of your cards in the Dell 7010 and see if it's recognised by the BIOS/Windows 7.
The 7010 has 1 PCIe Gen3 slot and 1 Gen2 slot.

If it is recognised, I'd look to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 (licences can be obtained quite cheaply). You should check if there are any specific drivers you need to download from Dell before committing to installing Windows 10. Trying to transfer a cloned OS from a different Dell model is likely to lead you into other problems.

Ray