PVR-150 REFUSES to run on WHS

[AtariJeff]

I'm at my wits end and the WAF is totally blown away. 2 days ago it worked fine, last night it's NO SIGNAL city. No matter what I try Sage will not get video from any input an any one of my 3 PVR-150's. I've:

Pulled and tested the cards in another machine. OK
Pulled all cards and swapped PCI slots. NG
Ran HWClear and reinstalled original plus latest driver about 10 times. NG
Reinstalled Sage about 10 times. NG
Turned on debug logging. From what I can see it says everything is fine.
Swapped out the video drive with a freshly formatted one. NG
Verified video coming in to the card. OK

HELP!

[Motofreak75]

How much ram does the "deathstar" have ?

[AtariJeff]

Originally Posted by Motofreak75

How much ram does the "deathstar" have ?

It's an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ with 4GB ram

Also, to add to the list I've tried disabling windows firewall with no luck. A zero byte recording shows up on the recording drive but never grows. I've verified read/write access to the drive.

[gplasky]

I thought there was a known issue with Hauppague drivers and 4 GB RAM. Reduce the ram and try that.

Gerry

[Taddeusz]

Yea, the Hauppauge drivers won't run properly when 4GB or more RAM is installed.

[rdefino]

Is this for all Hauppauge drivers? Like the HD-PVR?

Thanks

[Taddeusz]

Not certain but I believe they've fixed the problem for their newer products. But they have no plans to fix all their older legacy stuff such as the PVR150.

[Motofreak75]

yeah 4gb its way to much for those old cards. But I have a new PVR-1800 now running just fine with 16gig of ram

[SHS]

This has nothing to do with the PVR/HVR drivers
Part has to do with all 32bit OS as well
Do any of you recall original old school PC that also had a carve on the 8086 and 80186 and 1MB addressing range into memory 640k base and other 384k Upper Memory Area (UMA) and then was 80286 640k base and other 384k Extended Memory Specification (XMS) it was only able to address up to 16 MB of RAM, The same problem exists with 80386 up today lates production 32bit processors if you want to fit major GB of memory and devices into a 32-bit address range not all of the available 4GB of address space can be given out over to memory due to memory map for the IO.
Read the part I'm on a 32-bit Operating system
http://www.guru3d.com/article/-ddr3-...annel-review/3

[AtariJeff]

Holy shrimp that did the trick! Pulled 1GB stick of RAM out and away she went. I would have never guessed. I think this is FAQ worthy. As always many thanks to the folks on this great forum.

[wayner]

Son of a b.... - this got me. I just built a new WHS server and I was switching over my tuners and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get my PVR-150 to work - I had 2x2GB sticks of RAM. Now I have a 2GB stick of RAM in surplus - hopefully I can throw it in one of my other PCs!

[Ericft]

I pulled the extra 2gb of ram out of my system and i still can't get the pvr 150 to have it's driver installed. it shows up as multimedia device on "device manager" but i don't know which drivers to use. when i try 4.6b it only installs drivers for hvr 1600 that i have. any help or directions to the driver files for the pvr 150 in whs would be appreicated. i have searched the hauppauge website extensively without success. thanks

[SHS]

Then may have wrong Hardware Sub ID so there for you may need edit INF in order to get to work.

[Ken C]

What Hauppauge drivers are you using ? My Sage system using the 2.0.48.24227 drivers has 4 gb of ram and, so far, is working ok. The particulars, XP Pro / SP2, Gigabyte P35 mb, 4 sticks of DDR2 (533) ram, Intel quad Q6600, 4 PVR 150's, 2 HDHR's, a bunch of hard drives (5).

Also, WHS is based on Server 2003. Hauppauge says in their FAQ that Server 2003 is not supported.

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/suppor...rt_pvr150.html