Colossus dead?

[btrcp2000]

I have two Colossus (Colossi?) cards. Once disappeared a few months ago, but we are apparently watching less TV so I never took the time to deal with it. The other one is now gone. They both showed up with "unable to start" errors in dev mgr. I uninstalled both and rescanned for hardware, nothing was detected. The Colossus encoder is still there however.

How can I determine whether these are dead? No desire to sink more money into hauppauge products, but they are my only choice for Time Warner

[KryptoNyte]

Best thing that comes to mind is to pull them and pop them into another computer.

[btrcp2000]

popped them both in another pc and they worked right away, but when I put them back into the sage box, they still weren't recognized. I wiped all the old drivers off of the sage box and reinstalled with a fresh download. all good now. Thanks!

[KryptoNyte]

Nice. What driver did you end up using?

[TechBill]

Originally Posted by btrcp2000

popped them both in another pc and they worked right away, but when I put them back into the sage box, they still weren't recognized. I wiped all the old drivers off of the sage box and reinstalled with a fresh download. all good now. Thanks!

for some reason my colossus would do the same thing so i pull them and clean the contacts and pop it back in and it would start working again. i would like do that twice a year

strange but at least it working again for me

Bill

[btrcp2000]

I just DL'ed the most recvent version off the hauppauge site. It's 1.8.31093 dated 4/3/13

still working fine. actually the whole server seems a little more stable.

[patja]

I see the latest version as 33030 dated Jan 30 2014

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