PVR500 & PVR150 Installation feedback please

[nurowolf]

Hi

I currently have a PVR500 installed in my Rig, and it is performing fairly well. The only issue I have is the card is being used for 3 sources on 2 tuners. This means that 1 tuner is getting 2 sources. So when I record on tuner X - I can no longer get access to the second source.

Hence I am about to install my back-up PVR150 from my test rig into production.

But before I do - any advice from the forum. Things to watch out for

Complications that others may have encountered using thse 2 cards together.

I want to have my production rig down for as short a period as possible, so advice is sought on tricks and traps to be aware of.

Thanks
Nuro

[twiggins]

I have both those cards and a powercolor 550 card. I can only tell you what problems I had. None. They work well in my system. Best I have been able to find out, the 500 is basically 2 150's on one card. So for quality sake I figure I have 3 150's and a powercolor. I have forced all 4 cards to record at once, and had no problems. That is my take, but others might have worse storys

[nurowolf]

OK - I put my PVR150 card into my production machine with the PVR500.

But it was not without problems.

The PVR150 drivers detect the PVR500 tuners as 2 PVR150s and install drivers accorindly - well this caused all sorts of problems.

I lost my images all together at one point.

All I can say is thank goodness for Norton Ghost - it saved my bacon on at least 3 occassions during this exercise.

Anyway - after 6 hours of trial and error - I finally got it all working. It is really nice to finally have a tuner for each source of TV, rather than having to share tuners.

And SUB - GBPVR worked flawlessly once I got the drivers problem sorted out. Shows that this is a nice robust piece of software.

Cheers