I had the 1600 before i went to the 1800 and had the same problem no HD or Qam but have had good luck with the 1800 and the 2250. I tried everything under the sun to get the 1600 to work until I finally e-bayed it and upgraded to what i am using today.
with the 4.6 and 4.8 drivers, mediaportal would show the atsc/qam portion. but the scan is a joke. it scanned in like 6 seconds. when i've scanned successfully in the past on vista 32-bit, it took a few minutes to scan. and after the 6-second scan, there was nothing.
right now, i'll stick to the windows 7 driver because media center 7 is perfect with it. the 4.6 and 4.8 drivers break media center 7 and don't work quite right in mediaportal or wintv.
who knows, maybe win 7 32-bit would solve my problems but my machine has 8 GB of RAM and i'm not going to install 32-bit on this machine. maybe i can put the hauppauge card in another computer that will be 32-bit.
as always, it's the drivers that need tweaking. hauppauge needs to get in gear.
for those chiming in an saying their setup works, you have to state your setup. are you using 64-bit windows 7 or 32-bit? because it makes a difference. hauppauge themselves would prefer you use 32-bit. they even needed to tweak the driver to work with 4+ GB. they recommended people go back down to 2GB. no way am i going back down to 32-bit windows with 2 GB RAM.
Thats funny, I am running the 1600 with W7 64bit, and couldnt get it to work straight up. I uninstalled the WinTV progs and went with W7MC instead, but cannot get the MC Remote to work with the STB, tried many times.no way am i going back down to 32-bit windows with 2 GB RAM.
Am thinking about pulling it out and trying it out on an XP 32bit box, but not sure, cuz its all working fine in W7
what i noticed is that after installing the 4.6 or 4.8 hauppauge driver, it obliterates the microsoft hauppauge 3/19/2009 driver. so now I can't go back to the MS driver so now Media Center is broken. and unfortunately, I didn't make a backup image and the system restore point I made can't be found.
I'm not going back to Windows XP. I think people forgot how installation of devices can be a nightmare with XP. but since this product was born in the XP days, maybe it's better with XP.
Yeah thats what happened to me, though I first installed the Huappauge 4.6 driver from the cd and it gave me an error, then I saw that W7 was trying to install an update for the 1600, and when I tried installing it failed, twice. so I then tried installing the beta 4.8 driver, and after that it looked better.
But digging more into the forums, and WMC I saw that I dont really need the WinTV software, so I deleted all of it.
Now I can get it to work fine, but using a Mexican Satellite and only thing I cant get to sync is the MC remote with the STB.
I might just buy another kit and install it on another box I can build, then try using XP.....maybe
arite i have the 1800 also, i had all the tuners fm analog clear qam working on the windows update drivers working, then a few days ago brighthouse updated the clear qam channels and it wouldnt work. so i updated to 7201 and magically i got all my channels back lol
edit: not to hijack but if anyone has any tips on getting the clear qam on this card to work with adobe flash media encoder live or on 2 flix live drop me a pm
second edit: can someone post the driver version and date for the beta driver
i need WinTV or MediaPortal or some other alternative to work simply for the fact that I have a Hauppauge remote that is not a Media Center remote and won't work in Windows Media Center. plus WinTV is useful for recording off VCR and it has a back button for switching between tv stations.
what do you mean when you said it looked better after installing 4.8?
Well, when I first installed the 1600, I used the Drivers/Apps from the CD and recieved a bunch of errors, the app (WinTV) wouldnt open, I forget what error it gave me. So I checked the website and found the beta 4.8a drivers, downloaded, installed and didnt get any errors.
This is supposed to be a MCE remote, but the darn thing wont sync, not sure what to do, I posted a reply in another thread, and still waiting for an answer.
Hi everyone.
I'm in canada and have cogeco, with a hauppauge 1800.
I can get analog working ok.
I have installed the hauppauge 4.6 drivers.
When i setup the tv in mce 7 it see's my qam cable and I'm able to scan.
When it's done scanning no channels are there it's just fuz.
Do you think this is an issue in canada only?
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