Nova-T-500 blue screens

[stustunz]

if you do a search just on the second part it says its to do with usb
do you have anything usb on your system

[Obsidian]

Yeah, the reason it's USB is because the Nova-T-500 is basically two USB tuners and a USB controller all on a PCI card. That's how I know it's what's causing the problem. I also have a wireless USB keyboard/mouse.

[stustunz]

holly shit i just read some not all the posts at hauppauge
strange how everyone says they go fine for a year or so then shit themselves
i think its hardware fault like bad capacitors or dry joints on the board
another trick is to get contact cleaner and spray that on all joints and on the back of the board then if it goes fine for longer then thats the fault

[stustunz]

if it was driver or irq conflict why has it only done it now thats the big question

[gEd]

you could take a system restore checkpoint or image your drive and then try the HAL trick mention on the hauppauge forum. It appeared to work for the user Distorted Vision

[Obsidian]

Yeah, I was going to try that, but I believe that it will stop my power management from working, and that is a vital part of my PVR setup

[herbs]

I spoke to soon my pc rebooted after 3 weeks without issues, now I have put all my usb tuners on my hub to see if this helps. 3 usb hauppauge tuners and I was sure it was the nova-t usb2 that was causing the issues.

[Obsidian]

That's worrying herbs. What type is the third USB tuner? The thing that really concerns me about this is that Hauppauge haven't even acknowledged that there is a problem.

[herbs]

The other is a nova-t stick. It maybe just a case of re-installing the OS but i rather not go down that route mainly as i work on pc's all day and can't be bothered to mess with my own ones when i get home.

[Obsidian]

Well, I'm returning my board to Hauppauge to see if there's a hardware problem, although I'm doubtful that they'll find anything.

Bought a Nova-T USB stick to see me through in the mean-time, hopefully that will be problem free for me (unlike herbs!).