HVR-1600 QAM Stops Working After Reboot

[Straykat]

Hello,
With so much good advice to go around here on the forums, I've never had to post. Two years of using Sage. I've lost too much hair over this problem and I am giving in and I need your help.

The problem: I lose the ability to tune HD QAM stations from my HVR-1600 cards when I reboot my computer. I am only able to tune when I run HCWCLEAR.EXE, install the drivers, and run Sage. The show stops if I reboot the HTPC. By the same token, I can only scan for new QAM stations immediately after a driver install, and before I reboot. After a reboot, Sage tells me that I have no signal for the stations I set up previously and scans come up empty except for a scant few SD digital stations.

The catch: WinTV will continue to tune the QAM stations perfectly fine after a reboot. Sage wont.

What I have tried:
- HVR-1600 drivers from what came on the CDROM to 3.4D1, 4.6, 4.8. Even tried beta driver version WHQL 162_26028
- Tested this on Sage version 6.4 to the current 6.5.8 beta. Clean install and upgrades on each.
- Tried all sorts of DShowcapture.dll files, and any I could find suggested on these forums
- Tried running the driver re-install immediately after a reboot and before I start Sage. Basically overwriting the drivers and seeing if the Hauppauge install program does something special that doesn't happen on a reboot.
- gave up
- Tried someone's suggestion of using "REGSVR32" to register PsisDecd.dll.
- Ran the register-bda.bat batch file from the Hauppauge website
- Re-installed the cards from scratch
- Tried installing drivers to one card at a time
- Tried redoing the card setup in Sage, one at a time.
- Tried both the Nvidia settings and default settings in the video setup
- Reinstalled Windows XP

Did I miss something?

My setup looks like the following:
Intel Core2 Duo 3.12, 2GB RAM, 2T of HD, Nvidia 8600GTS, 2 HVR-1600s, Creative Audigy NX, Windows XP

Please help!

[Straykat]

Bump for some help please!

[bcjenkins]

Probably not the answer you're looking for.. This card works great in Linux with SageTV. I have 3 installed.

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[bnh]

i have this card too and is working very well for me. I recall there are some differences in board versions, where the early models were not as stable or even supported QAM tuning. The fact that you can tune at all, but not after reboot suggests to me a defective board or a driver conflict of some kind.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=847022

[mangriotis]

I am not using the HVR-1600 for QAM, but only analog cable. However, I have severe artifacting and distorted, choppy video and audio after a reboot of my WHS machine (totally unwatchable).

If I uninstall the driver and re-install (which requires a reboot), things are fine until the next reboot.

I am using the driver from 1/28/08 - version 1.62.26028.0 (as appears in device manager).

I have tried changing PCI slots and get the same behavior.

I also have a PVR250 card in this machine, which works well (no driver issues). In my previous setup (using the same motherboard and processor, but Vista instead of WHS), both cards worked without issue.

Any thoughts on this??

[stevenkd]

I would remove the device, reboot the machine and reinstall the drivers from your CD. I just built a new server and downloaded the latest installation from Hauppauge, but the card would not work until I installed the drivers from the original CD.

[bjp999]

I installed Vista x64 and the hardware was detected and drivers installed via Windows Update. I never installed any Hauppauge drivers from CD or download. Prior to that I was having all sorts of problems. YMMV

[Straykat]

My problems persist till this day, even after a winXP rebuild. Still looking for a solution.

[SHS]

Just wonder what mother baord do you have and try a diff PC?.

[Straykat]

I have an Asus P5QSE with no onboard video. Ive tried different BIOS settings with relation to the PCI and "Plug and Play OS". No juice.

I hate the idea of giving up on this

[SHS]

Have you try a diff PC?.

[Straykat]

I have not.
Drives me loopy when WinTV can tune the stations and sage cannot.

Here's something interesting, one QAM / HD station can tune in Sage, even after a reboot. All others get the "no signal" salute until reboot and reinstallation of drivers as described in the OP. Only this one QAM and the standard definition stations will tune.

[SHS]

Yes that is very odd