Pinnacle 801e SE USB Stick + MCE does... nothing.

Webadict said:

Download the appropriate driver for your Pinnacle Stick / Card here

PCTV Systems > Support > Downloads > Windows 7 BETA driver

Unzip, note location

Open Device Manager ( Start -> type Device Manager hit enter

Navigate to Sound, Video, and Game Controllers

Right Click on your tuner select Update Driver Software

Select Browse My Computer for Software

Select Browse

Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the driver files and select the .inf file

Follow onscreen prompts

Restart W7

Run tv signal setup in Media Center and you will have your Qam

Hope this helps

Scott

I had the 880e beta drivers already. Tried what you said here, seems to have worked perfectly.

Thanks Much

I have the Pinnacle HD Pro Stick (801e) -- NOT SE and I can't seem to get this to work on 7100 (RC). With the Windows Update drivers, I get analog cable and digital ATSC.
I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta drivers from the PCTV site above and unzipped the files. However, when I tried to update from the device manager, even after pointing it to the new driver's folder, it told me that the best drivers were already installed. So I clicked update drivers again, but this time told it I will select from a list, and clicked the "Have Disk" button, pointing it to the inf file directly. Now I got a message warning me that the driver was unsigned. I accepted anyway and restarted the machine. At this point, WMC won't even detect a tuner. I can easily revert to the old driver just by telling it to automatically update the driver, but this doesn't solve my QAM problems. This is the absolute last thing I need to get working before I can trash Vista. The worst part is that TVCenterPro (the fabulously buggy and resource-hogging Pinnacle software) that does work with QAM keeps catching unhandled exceptions in 7. Any ideas? By the way, this is 64-bit Windows (yes, I'm using PCTV's 64-bit beta driver).

niharG said:

I have the Pinnacle HD Pro Stick (801e) -- NOT SE and I can't seem to get this to work on 7100 (RC). With the Windows Update drivers, I get analog cable and digital ATSC.
I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta drivers from the PCTV site above and unzipped the files. However, when I tried to update from the device manager, even after pointing it to the new driver's folder, it told me that the best drivers were already installed. So I clicked update drivers again, but this time told it I will select from a list, and clicked the "Have Disk" button, pointing it to the inf file directly. Now I got a message warning me that the driver was unsigned. I accepted anyway and restarted the machine. At this point, WMC won't even detect a tuner. I can easily revert to the old driver just by telling it to automatically update the driver, but this doesn't solve my QAM problems. This is the absolute last thing I need to get working before I can trash Vista. The worst part is that TVCenterPro (the fabulously buggy and resource-hogging Pinnacle software) that does work with QAM keeps catching unhandled exceptions in 7. Any ideas? By the way, this is 64-bit Windows (yes, I'm using PCTV's 64-bit beta driver).

I'm having exactly this same problem, only I have the PCI 800i card.

Any solutions yet?

Webadict said:

Goto Device Manager and Uninstall the driver, making sure to delete any driver files, restart, then follow the instructions I posted earlier in this thread.

I am using the exact same card, no issues.

With this driver, Windows 7 even lets you use the Hybrid card as it was meant to be used. Meanng, you can add both digital and analog to your Media Center.

Hope this helps

Scott

I had done that, and gotten a warning about the driver being unsigned, but installed anyway. However, there was a yellow flag over the device after installation, details were about it being unsigned. When I tried to use media center though it said no tuner was found.

Webadict said:

Hmm. If you could, please provide a little more detail about your system. Make / Model, What flavor of 7 are you running (x86 or x64), video card, etc. Please be as detailed as you can.

Scott

7100 Ultimate RC x64


Custom built PC

C2D 6600
2 gigs corsair xms2 ram
8800gt

Yeah same here. I'm running build 7100 x64 on an AMD ZM-86 Turion X2 Ultra, 3GB of DDR2. Maybe the beta 64-bit drivers are not fully developed yet...

Any new developments?