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Hi,
As some of you might know, I've got a media center going. It's XP Media Center 2005 with SP3 integrated. It installs fine, and drivers go in, but in Media Center it won't recognise the TV Tuners (It's a Hauppage Nova T 500).
Each time I try and setup the TV signal it gives an error of:
"TUNER NOT FOUND
The tuner hardware is either malfunctioning or not installed. Please ensure that both the tuner hardware and a valid tuner hardware driver are installed."
This is the reason I've started thinking about a PS3 instead, but does anyone know what I can try? The Hauppage forum isn't much use so far (no answers after a few days). Any tips you guys might have?
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update drivers? from here some ware and update windows?
and does it show up ok in device manager ?
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All is upto date. Device Manager shows no problems.
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is there other software you could try (did any come with it?) just to make sure it works?
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I've got to confess that my experience with Hauppage drivers is not good. In fact they can be a real pain in the a*rse! They seem to be extremely picky about the order of driver installation, and you often get reboot notices which you should ignore and proceed to the next step. I can only suggest two things:-
a) Go through your Windows system driver tabs and look for the yellow exclamation marks and try to do manual installs-give it the Hauppage directory as the location of the driver(s), This works on Vista 64, but is really irritating.
b) Say the h*ll with it, uninstall the lot and start again, but ignore the reboots. Often this works with XP - why I don't know!
EDIT: Make sure you use the Hauppage uninstall utility if you do b) as this ensures a clean start.
Good Luck!
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I had the same problem with an old Hauppage card and a Pinnacle card. Both support MCE but the MCE interface wouldn't recognise them. Using their own software, they work great, but that defeats the object.
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I had a similar problem with a Hauppage, different model though, it worked fine if I installed the OS first and the card later, but not if the card was already in when I installed the OS.
Windows had to find the new hardware, and insert the Hauppage disk when it asked for it.
Every reinstallation I had to remove the card, otherwise it would only work with Hauppage's software.
I have no idea what the cause was or if you got the same problem.
Worth a shot though if you haven't done that already.
Phil.
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Hi Freakshow ! 
I have got the same model twin-tuner card, with a 'Rev D885' label (there are subtly different versions). Hoping to make use of wyliecoyoteuk advice, I had been hoping to use it in XP and Ubuntu on my [B] rig. I already know that all such cards are a pain to install, with the worst needing more than one driver correctly installed and set up in XP before other software can correctly recognize and use the cards.
Hauuppauge are particularly bad in my experience, with down load drivers being incomplete or different from supplied CD drivers. In the past, I had to use a mix of such software to get DEC-2000Ts to work properly ! It's not helped by Hauppauge technical staff being US-based and not having actual access to UK transmissions.
When I had a quick play with the 500-T a couple of months ago, I had antenna problems. I'll have another go and let you know I get on.
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