General Slowness after installing PVR-500MCE

[Outvit]

There is generally a slowness ever since I added the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE and SageTV. Its not the Sage software, but my Logitech Cordless MX Duo keeps getting dodgy when I am browsing the internet. I have ruled out RF interference for the most part because nothing else operates on even a remotely similar frequency and there is no wireless internet cards nearby. The battery levels are fine and I've tried rotating the channels the MX700 mouse operates on. Nothing seems to be fixing it. I do get some slowness in SageTV and my mouse wont navigate the Sage menus very well, where as my Phillips MCE remote seems to work, but sometimes I will have to repeat the command several times for it to send the command when I press the buttons on remote. The receiver for the remote is a USB-UIRT with the IRBlaster cable plugged into the back of the unit and that IR blaster is scotch taped to my cable box for temporary placement until I’m sure its all 100%.

At this point I am unsure it is even the mouse. Whenever I browse the internet or do anything internet related I get enormous lag. Internet speed tests are fine. I'm operating at over 5megabites a second. So its not my ISP or my cable modem or router. The computer starts to lock up and go very slowly. This only happened after installing the PVR 500 MCE and I'm not sure if it is some IRQ conflict of sorts. Any ideas? I love SageTV and it seems to work well, but initially I’m having a couple of problems with slowness in and around Windows after installing the TV tuner card.

If you need more information just ask...but I'm hoping I provided enough.

[Outvit]

Oh, by the way...I'm running Windows XP Professional (SP2 Integrated). When I installed Windows XP MCE 2005...I had NONE of this slowness. NONE! Same drivers. Same components. Same everything. The only difference was I used the Phillips IR reciever instead of the USB-UIRT to control the MCE 2005 interface. That is the only hardware difference and that is never going to cause the slowness I am experiencing within Windows and SageTV. I was just running MCE 2005 without SageTV installed...

[Outvit]

Any ideas?

[Outvit]

*bump*

Anyone have an idea of what may be causing this or had similar experiences? I'm pretty sure the cause is my WinTV PVR-500MCE as it only started after installing the drivers for this hardware component. Unfortunately, there is no uninstaller for the drivers so I'll have to revert to a Ghost backup and try again I guess... Maybe it is some incompatibility. It did not occur on Windows MCE 2005 but it does occur on Windows XP Pro SP2.

Windows sees my PVR-500MCE as:

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 1) and
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 2)

Is that the normal name for it?

[SHS]

Yes windows device manager should see two tuner like you list below.
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 1)
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 2)
So yes it is normal there nothing worry about.

[korben_dallas]

Any particular reason you went from MCE to XP SP2 ?

[Outvit]

Originally Posted by SHS

Yes windows device manager should see two tuner like you list below.
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 1)
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (23xxx) (Tuner 2)
So yes it is normal there nothing worry about.

What about the slowness? It never occured prior to installing the PVR-500MCE.

Originally Posted by korben_dallas

Any particular reason you went from MCE to XP SP2 ?

I hate having my computer monitored...and that is just what MCE 2005 does.

The only reason it is not "spyware" like what is made by Gator is because Microsoft wont even let you use MCE 2005 without reading a 58 page privacy agreement that says they can do it. Oh, I mean "Claria." They had to change their name because they acquired such a bad stigma through their business practices and tactics.