Hvr 1600 qam help!

[blacks1093]

I got a new 1600 card and i have been painstakingly trying to set up the digital (QAM) side of the card. After hours of having issues with GBPVR not being able to find a BDA Device I finally got that to work. (at one point ch. mapping was crashing the config interface).

Now I am able to scan channels but the return comes up emptyhanded. No channels. I replaced the PsiParser, and i have scanned using the qam.ini manager. I scanned on center frequencies and got som interesting results such as the image below. - signal at good quality, hmmm....

I am sure that my cable provider sends clear QAM chanels over because my TV internal tuner picks them up and a friend was able to pick them up on a hvr1800 from the same provider (and we are both running the same copy of windows xp pro, all current updates, sp3) . I know that my signal is good meter on the tv is steady around 90%, all high bandwidth splitters and d/a. installed in the house.

However I am NOT able to find any channels on the Hauppauge win tv setup either. i know that this is the first thing that i should probally get working...

Analog side works as expected.

All logs attached.

Thoughts, insight?:confused:

[whurlston]

PM me your zip code so I can see what channels you should be receiving. You may be on a cable system that uses HRC frequencies.

[donschjr]

I have 2 1600's with comcast cable. I have to use the drivers from the the 3.4d1 download to make qam work. I can't get any qam channels with any of the newer drivers.

[blacks1093]

I have 2 1600's with comcast cable. I have to use the drivers from the the 3.4d1 download to make qam work. I can't get any qam channels with any of the newer drivers.

3.4d1 drivers from hauppauge? sorry just a little unclear. if so, where exacly is this download available? I can not find any archived drivers on their site.

Thanks!

[blacks1093]

Well I jut googled the 3.4d1 and found it. I will dl it and give it a shot and let you know!

[blacks1093]

Well I jut googled the 3.4d1 and found it. I will dl it and give it a shot and let you know!

Got the 3.4 version of the drivers to work. I did a quick scan in GBPVR and it was pulling up all kinds of channels. but it was still a -4000 signal and a 88 or so quality. it was giving me a black picture, no audio and it was listing all of the channels as (unknown) with some numbers and some had (AC3) in the brackets as if it was locking on to a 5.1 signal.

I will look at it more in detail tomorrow. if anyone has more insight by all means...

Thanks!

[whurlston]

If the channels don't have an *, it means they are encrypted and you can't tune them. You should be able to view the ones with an asterix. If that fails and you have any splitters on the line, try removing them.

[blacks1093]

Made some progress. win tv finds and plays alot of qam channels. the earlier drivers did the trick.

Now GBPVR cannot find the channels and crashes upon searching them. just closes out the config. I believe that it may be a bad filter. from what it looks like GB calls on the filter when it locks on to a QAM channel and cant find a filter to process the signal.

Not quite sure, ran out of time. I will look into it later tonight.

Has anyone run into this issue? Maybe i am missing something...

Logs and decoder check attached.

[sub]

Do you have the patches from the survival guide thread?

[blacks1093]

Do you have the patches from the survival guide thread?

I believe i do. i replaced many of them yesterday. I will have to doublecheck one by one later this evening.