hauppauge PVR 250 input nothing

[SatStorm]

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250 (revision 3 Conexant CX23416
chip) running on a w2k (service pack 4) PC based on a duron 1200.

I rarelly use it and now I have a problem: It doesn't work.
I re-installed the drivers, I followed the tips SHSPVR suggests, nothing.
It installs OK but when I search for channels, it detects them and when finish it reboots my PC.
Also, it doesn't show a picture from composite / s-video.

Any ideas?

[junkmalle]

What do you mean "It doesn't work"? Do you mean you get a black image and no sound in WinTV2000? Check this registry setting:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hauppauge\hcwTVWnd]
"TV_Out_PlayLocal"=dword:00000001

Make sure it's 1, not 0.

[Forum Troll]

Which version of the driver did you install? I had the same problem, till I installed this version:

ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_250-350/base_cd/hcw2_2_22301_pp2.zip

Then everything started working perfectly again.

[SatStorm]

@ Forum Troll: I installed the latest drivers I found on shspvr.com.

@junkmalle: Yes, exactly. I choose composite in and there is no video/ audio. And If I push "record" my PC freez!!!

I'll try those suggestions when I'll return home

[SatStorm]

No luck!

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hauppauge\hcwTVWnd]
"TV_Out_PlayLocal"=dword:00000001 is "1"
I installed hcw2_2_22301_pp2.zip

Nothing.

Any other ideas?

[SHS]

Hi SatStorm well it could be any of number of thing like something that you install or uninstall or something else gone south on Win2K install but I wonder have try uninstall every thing and move the card to a diff PCI slot to see that help any.

[junkmalle]

Does Hauppauge have a "cleanup" utility that uninstalls everything, removes all their registry settings, etc.?

[SatStorm]

Well, I used the clean up utility, I manually unistall all the registry keys, I even unplugged the card to unistall and move it to other PCI!

It simply refuse to work!!!!!

I hope it is not a hardware fault of any kind, just a conflict (I believe there must be a wierd conflict on the decoders)

I'll do my favorite thing in the world tomorrow: Format C : /

I don't see any other solution....

[SHS]

Try some other tools like BeyondTV or SageTV SatStorm

[jaxxboss]

next step would be to try in another pc just to rule that out.

[SatStorm]

WB Jaxxboss

Yes, that's what I gonna do when I find some time out to test stuff....

SHS, those programs you mention are excellent but I don't own them (neither I can use the demos they offer, my trial expired...). Unfortunatelly, for me, those programs are not an option right now (maybe after I format my PC and still have problems, I will try them again!)

[jaxxboss]

Yeah, its been awhile.

You can also try ChrisTV and of course SnapStream's Beyond TV

[reboot]

GBPVR, Meedio, GotAllMedia...

[junkmalle]

WinTVCap is a command line capture program that only saves the MPEG stream. It doesn't display the picture or play the audio so that eliminates all those possible sources of problems.

[SatStorm]

I know all those programs.
I believe that I have decoder conflicts on that PC. A clean install may help

But those things requare what I don't have: Time....