Hauppauge 500MCE with Windows 2000?

[dfunk]

I've got to replace a failing PVR-250 and am hoping that it's possible to run the Hauppauge 500MCE under Windows 2000/Sagetv. Is anyone doing this?
thanks, dfunk

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by dfunk

I've got to replace a failing PVR-250 and am hoping that it's possible to run the Hauppauge 500MCE under Windows 2000/Sagetv. Is anyone doing this?
thanks, dfunk

MY 500MCE (analog cable only) is running on Win2k workstation (my SageTV server) on a Pentium III 1 GHz SOYO SY-7VBA133U with 1GB memory using the drivers supplied on the 500MCE CD, SageTV 2.2.2Beta. I also have 2 250MCE's installed (digital cable only). I record to a Win2K server accross a 1GB network connection. Been up for a day and a half now with no problems noticed so far (knock on wood ). In near future will be dumping the VIA board for an AMD Athlon XP I hope. Don't think I forgot anything but if you want further system specs let me know and I will look them up.

BobP.

[dfunk]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

MY 500MCE (analog cable only) is running on Win2k workstation (my SageTV server) on a Pentium III 1 GHz SOYO SY-7VBA133U with 1GB memory using the drivers supplied on the 500MCE CD, SageTV 2.2.2Beta. I also have 2 250MCE's installed (digital cable only). I record to a Win2K server accross a 1GB network connection. Been up for a day and a half now with no problems noticed so far (knock on wood ). In near future will be dumping the VIA board for an AMD Athlon XP I hope. Don't think I forgot anything but if you want further system specs let me know and I will look them up.

BobP.

Fantastic! My failing PVR-250 is in a shuttle sb51g which only has a single PCI slot, so I'm psyched about getting another tuner with that setup. Did you have to do anything special to get the 500MCE installed under windows 2000?

dfunk

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by dfunk

Did you have to do anything special to get the 500MCE installed under windows 2000?

dfunk

I installed it on a new Win2K install as the first PVR card in the computer with the drivers on the 500MCE CD then installed the 250MCE's but that was all I remember doing. I didn't let windows search the CD when it was installing the drivers I navigated directly to the correct directory on the CD - but windows probably would have found the correct driver anyway - I just like to make sure it installs what I expect it to install. Hope that helps you.

BobP.