wintv hvr 1600 no qam signal?

[igloo]

I have a qam capable wintv 1600 (with 74041 tuner). Win7 recognize it and install driver without problem. SD cable TV is very good in media center. However I couldn't get any qam channels. My cable tv is comcast classic. Anyone has better luck?

 

[ARGuck]

I, too, am running into trouble like that. I JUST got the TV Pack 08 working in VMC with the regkey put out by hauppauge. And I thought for SURE that I wouldn't have to do that with Win 7 but MAYBE. Have you tried running the Registry Key? As in, the one below if you are unfamilier with it.

The Green Button - Clear QAM and the 1600

I'm a smart but not smart enough to know if that key will screw up something in the Win 7 registry forcing yet ANOTHER full install. (I've had about 7 full Reinstalls in the past week and not sure I have the patience for another right now) Anyway, let me know if you hear anything? Later!

 

[ARGuck]

DUDE! It will work! Install that registry key and you too will get to enjoy wonderful HD in Win 7!
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I recommend doing it like this, (please note that I haven't done this yet but will do it tonight):

1. Download latest 4.6A+ Drivers from Hauppauge:
Support for WinTV-HVR-1600

2. Delete previous drivers, and then run the "hcwclear" thing from the NEW Hauppauge drivers folder to get rid of all remnants.

3. Restart

4. Ignore any "New hardware found messages"

5. Install Hauppauge 4.6A+ Driver

6. Run Registry Key (The Green Button - Clear QAM and the 1600)

7. Restart

8. Have W7MC search for tv signals again!

Enjoy HD!

Again, I haven't tried it but that is EXACTLY what I'll be doing and I'll post results later once I've tried it. Good Luck!

 

[igloo]

Thank you. After adding the reg key, I can select QAM from signal source now. Now the only problem is guide doesn't work. I have to manually add every channels. Anyway, it's working and I am enjoy hd tv now.
I am still using the win7 default driver at the moment. Tried to install the latest wintv driver but win7 claimed it's up to date.

 

[igloo]

Let win7 did the scan and found 11 qam channels with guide. I am all set now.

 

[ARGuck]

Awesome Igloo! I got mine working on lunch as well. The big test is tonight when it needs to record, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, House, 24 and Worst Week. Some at the same time. We'll see how it does!

 

[robshah2]

I have the similar problem. I tried everything that is ARGuck has indicated, and now MCE does find the QAM tuner, but it can't find any channel when it does scan. My TV with QAM Tuner finds all the Broadcast Channels fine, so I know it is available.

Anyone can think of anything that I am doing wrong? I have manually edit the reg file to put the entry, and it seems that everything is working, but just can't find any channel.

 

[ARGuck]

Sorry some of this may sound condescending but is not meant to.

Did you make sure to fully uninstall the previous driver for your Hauppauge 1600? AND run the hcwclear program/script? and then restart before installing the new downloaded hauppauge 4.6A+ driver?

Did you restart after running the reg key?

Did you let the computer fully complete the search for digital signals? Mine didn't find any until the last like 25% of it's search.

Sorry that's about the best I can do without just saying, try reinstalling the drivers. I'm not sure about reinstalling the regkey, I don't know what that would do BUT if W7MC is seeing the QAM in the first place you probably have the reg key installed correctly.

Actually, do the QAM channels show up when you have your TV (direct cable connection, bypassing PC) search for digital channels?

 

[robshah2]

Well, yes, I did everything like removing the old drivers twice, and let the Window7 scan the channels several times without any success. One thing I have not done is to remove the PC, and take it to the leaving room where the TV has found QAM Channels.

 

[robshah2]

Sorry some of this may sound condescending but is not meant to.

Did you make sure to fully uninstall the previous driver for your Hauppauge 1600? AND run the hcwclear program/script? and then restart before installing the new downloaded hauppauge 4.6A+ driver?

Did you restart after running the reg key?

Did you let the computer fully complete the search for digital signals? Mine didn't find any until the last like 25% of it's search.

Sorry that's about the best I can do without just saying, try reinstalling the drivers. I'm not sure about reinstalling the regkey, I don't know what that would do BUT if W7MC is seeing the QAM in the first place you probably have the reg key installed correctly.

Actually, do the QAM channels show up when you have your TV (direct cable connection, bypassing PC) search for digital channels?

No, dude, I am not worried about you sounding condesending at all. I am glad that you were able to respond.

Yes, I had trouble importing the regfile, so I had to manually add, and after successfully editing the regfile, Windows 7 did see my tuner as one Analog and one QAM/ATSC Tuner.

Yes, I did reload after the registry editor. Yes, I did let Window fully search 100%time like 6 to 7 times without any success. It takes a long time I might add to do the scanning.

I have Comcast Cable Connections, and most of my QAM channels are coming as like 82-x to 87-9, and it works great on my 65 in Olevia thanks to woot.com

 

[ARGuck]

yeah I wouldn't THINK that moving it to the living room would make much of a difference. But I guess you could try it. I'm not quite sure how comcast works as I have Charter, but all of my CLEAR QAM (emphasis on clear) are below 30 and all HD above 30 requires a cable card connection (which Charter just freakin broke). Currently I can't think of what else could be happening, but I'll keep thinking about it. Good Luck!

 

[kcfandjc]

robshah2 - if it makes you feel any better, I am having the same problem as you. It sees the QAM tuner and does the scan, but it doesn't find any channels. At this point I have reinstalled Windows 7 four times and tried all that I can think of with no luck.

ARGuck - are you running 32-bit or 64-bit? I am on 32-bit so I was wondering if maybe the 1600 only works on 64-bit for some reason. I have been doing my testing on an old P4 system that I had lying around so I can't put 64-bit on it, but I may try it on my 64-bit AMD based HTPC if I have time this weekend.

If anyone has any other ideas I would be glad to try them and report back the results.

Thanks!

 

[robshah2]

I heard somewhere that there is possibility of adding those channel manually, and I am going to explore that options..

 

[kcfandjc]

Manually adding the channels worked for me, thanks for the tip!

 

[robshah2]

robshah2 - if it makes you feel any better, I am having the same problem as you. It sees the QAM tuner and does the scan, but it doesn't find any channels. At this point I have reinstalled Windows 7 four times and tried all that I can think of with no luck.

ARGuck - are you running 32-bit or 64-bit? I am on 32-bit so I was wondering if maybe the 1600 only works on 64-bit for some reason. I have been doing my testing on an old P4 system that I had lying around so I can't put 64-bit on it, but I may try it on my 64-bit AMD based HTPC if I have time this weekend.

If anyone has any other ideas I would be glad to try them and report back the results.

Thanks!

I got it my working yesterday. It was scanning without any channels being added, but I went to the Windows 7/Media Center/Setup/Guide/ and either modify channels, and all of them were there.

I had to name then to appropriate, and now I have PBS,FOX,CBS,NBC and CBS in HD.

I now have to worry about how to get the Guide being updated for those channels, and I am in business.

Thanks for everyone's help here.

 

[ARGuck]

Sounds like you guys got it working! Good to hear!

KCFandCJ, I'll answer your question for the benefit of others who might visit this forum. I've tried all of the initial instructions from the beginning of this forum on both 64-bit and 32-bit. Works on both.

Now if I could just make my blu-ray drive work on 64-bit

 

[sandman]

Hello new to the Forum so I figured I would add my little issue to this forum since my tuner card is a HVR1800 and the problem I am having is the Media center works great and then all of a sudden I start to get a sound issue and then the sound and picture seam to go out of sync. I change the station and go back to the one i was watching and it perfect and this some time happens every 10 minutes and others it lasts for hours before i have an issue any ideas with what the problem could be, plus i have did all the newest drives and troubleshooting for the tuner card and sound card. Thanks in advance

 

[robshah2]

I have noticed that on HD Live Streaming I think, but I am going to check again to see if it is still issue. No, I have not paid much attention as it was only happened once.

 

[ARGuck]

Hmm I haven't encountered that but I was having any A sound issue.

I have 7.1 surround connected to the computer so I told W7MC that I had 7.1 and the sound got all garbled so I set it to 5.1 and it went back to normal. Did you try switching surround settings at all?

 

[igloo]

Anyone got the remote to work with MC?