Really confused with my Hauppauge 500

[elite]

Disable anything that you don't use that might hog an IRQ in your bios (e.g. on board sound, video, LTP, etc)

[steveklein]

how do i get to bios? is that where i hit f2 (setup) when the computer is booting up?

i did that and checked things out. i didn't see any real issues. i use onboard sound so can't disable that... and i disabled what i don't use ( a couple of usb ports, etc... but it wasn't much).

still didn't work when i did all of that.

i don't have much confidence that a clean install of windows will resolve anything because my install is already fairly new and clean (6 weeks old, no junk i don't need).

what hardware is limiting me? is it the processor? the motherboard? the RAM? the operating system (win xp pro)? i'm really clueless. it doesn't seem like this should really be causing a problem.



EDIT: i also checked IRQ assignments. it seemed like most stuff was on IRQ11 and when I went to IRQ reservations it showed them all being available except for IRQ5 which was reserved. I tried the card with IRQ5 both available and reserved with no luck... but I didn't know if I should mess with the IRQ assignments. Is this what I need to change? For what it's worth, I didn't see the Hauppauge card even listed under all the IRQ assignments, but I did see my video card (among other things) and it was assigned to IRQ11.

[stefan]

how do i get to bios? is that where i hit f2 (setup) when the computer is booting up?

That depends on your motherboard. But some sort of keyboard press combination during bootup is the normal way of getting there.

[elite]

also if none of that works, try taking all cards out, add ppvr500 back first and get drivers working, then re-install remaining cards, and let them fight over what's left...
[they can probably do better job moving themselves around individually]

Did you try this?

[steveklein]

sort of. i only have 2 pci cards... the pvr-500 in question and a card that has maxtor ata133 written on it and has ribbons connected to i believe one or two of my hard drives. i took both of those out and then added the pvr-500 back with no luck, even without the maxtor ata133 card in.

the only other card i have is an ati radeon 9700 pro video card... and that's in an agp slot. didn't know if that would make a difference taking it out...

[elite]

Hmmm odd

What motherboard do you have?

[steveklein]

Hmmm odd

What motherboard do you have?

i don't know. how do i tell? it's whatever came in my dell dimension when i bought it 3-4 years ago.

it was top of the line when i got it. the whole system... P4 2.66 GHz, ATI 9700 Pro, 160GB hard drives, 512mb DDR SDRAM, dvd burner.... the whole 9 yards. the only thing i went basic with was my sound card (integrated) and speakers (creative... garbage).

now why would some tv tuner card not work!?!?!?

[elite]

i don't know. how do i tell? it's whatever came in my dell dimension when i bought it 3-4 years ago.

it was top of the line when i got it. the whole system... P4 2.66 GHz, ATI 9700 Pro, 160GB hard drives, 512mb DDR SDRAM, dvd burner.... the whole 9 yards. the only thing i went basic with was my sound card (integrated) and speakers (creative... garbage).

now why would some tv tuner card not work!?!?!?

I think there is a tweak for some motherboards that requires you to change the AGP aperture size from 128Mb to 256Mb in BIOS - Couldn't find much else but worth a try...

[steveklein]

I think there is a tweak for some motherboards that requires you to change the AGP aperture size from 128Mb to 256Mb in BIOS - Couldn't find much else but worth a try...

still a no go :mad:

this has got to be the most frusturating thing i've ever dealt with... i'm absolutely clueless :confused:

[sub]

Its not usually this difficult. It may be a dud PVR500.