Last night I went home backed up all music, pictures, email, programs and such. Ran the recovery on my computer, which crashed, and I had to install from disc causing a two hour delay. I installed only the drivers for my Hauppague 1600(It shows in the device manager as NSTC/ATSC/QAM COMBO.
Then updated Vista to service pack 1, fell asleep during this process, woke up at five to the sound of Vista restarting.
Then I follow the TV pack install instructions to the letter.
Open media center and,
wait for it....
No QAM tuner detected, analog cable only.
So, I think I understand why this is supposed to be OEM only. Because while I'm dissapointed that this effort was essentially waisted. I would be nine kinds of pissed off if this was a legit "upgrade" that Microsoft sent out. And I went through 6 hours of install for it not to work. I'm sure there is a different tuner that will work with this. If anyone has a sugestion, that seems like the next thing for me to try.
What you should have done was install vista and service pack, etc, then ghost and save your HDD image. After that you can experiment all you want. If you fail, you just ghost the vista "fresh install" image back to the HDD and save time.
Also, you can try searching for QAM channels using the native Hauppague 1600 tuner application (if it has any) to verify that the problem is media center.
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Last night I went home backed up all music, pictures, email, programs and such.
Ran the recovery on my computer, which crashed, and I had to install from disc causing a two hour delay.
I installed only the drivers for my Hauppague 1600(It shows in the device manager as NSTC/ATSC/QAM COMBO.
Then updated Vista to service pack 1, fell asleep during this process, woke up at five to the sound of Vista restarting.
Then I follow the TV pack install instructions to the letter.
Open media center and,
wait for it....
No QAM tuner detected, analog cable only.
So, I think I understand why this is supposed to be OEM only.
Because while I'm dissapointed that this effort was essentially waisted. I would be nine kinds of pissed off if this was a legit "upgrade" that Microsoft sent out. And I went through 6 hours of install for it not to work. I'm sure there is a different tuner that will work with this.
If anyone has a sugestion, that seems like the next thing for me to try.
Oh well at least I have a fresh install!
@Scott:
What you should have done was install vista and service pack, etc, then ghost and save your HDD image. After that you can experiment all you want. If you fail, you just ghost the vista "fresh install" image back to the HDD and save time.
Also, you can try searching for QAM channels using the native Hauppague 1600 tuner application (if it has any) to verify that the problem is media center.
Yeah, im having the same problems