I recently bought a TV PCI card for my computer, i installed it into 2 different pci slots in my computer but everytime I try and start the program it will just freeze my system up and I need to hit the reset button, I uninstalled and reinstalled all the software for the card but still having problems with it freezing, is there anything I can do to fix this problem. Someone please help. Thankyou Windows XP Home Pentium 4 3.0ghz 768MB PC3200 120gb Hard Drive ATI Radeon 9200 Series 16x DVD Dual Layer RW Mart

Don't use the top PCI slot as that one may share resources with the AGP slot. Boot to the BIOS and look for a few settings. First one is "Assign IRQ for VGA" If this is available enable it. Second is "reset configuration data". Enable this setting for one boot cycle. third is Pnp (plug and play) aware OS. Enable this. Finally, disable any onboard hardware you are not using. Things like com ports, parallel ports, onboard modems, NICs, sound. Of course if you are utilizing any of these, leave them at Auto or enabled. The default is Auto. Set to DISABLE if not being used. I have that same card and it works great in both Win98se and Win2000 on a dual boot machine. You should be able to get it going.

Give Hauppauge Tech support a call if the above recommendations don't work. I had a similar problem with my Win TV card. They knew exactly what the problem was and instructed me to change one BIOS setting which cured the problem. Stuart

Ok thankyou guys, I know for a fact this card has worked on my computer before, but because i thought it was causing my computer to restart itself i removed it (I later found out that it was a memory timing problem) Would SP2 cause the problem of it freezing at all? Windows XP Home Pentium 4 3.0ghz 256mb DDR 120gb Hard Drive ATI Radeon 9200 Series 16x DVD Dual Layer RW Mart

I have the Win TV PVR running 98SE with only my dinasour 800 mghz, with 384 mb sdram, most home built motherboards have slots to use either the SDRAM or DDR, DDR is better and much faster. I use Clean Disk 2002 which clears the cache and history, etc., enabling smoother running of the WinTV Program. Being my prcessor is only an 800 mghz Celeron, but you have a Pentium 3.0 processor, I had to turn everything off, Ctrl-Alt-Del, as OtheHill stated and 128 mb would not cut it, I had to go up and really need the max my system will taek 512, most home build computer's boards have at least 1 gig of memory capability, so check this also. I am building one too in the next month or two with income tax money and my main issue is the front side bus, and someone correct me if I am wrong, still learning, is the speed between the processor and video and memory, I think the 800 fsb would be the best. If someone could tell me what mine is, a Compaq Presario 5008US 800 mhz Celeron processor, original 128 mb sdram how to figure the fsb, would be most appreciative, I don't even think mine is 400. The fsb is really important I am told when doing multimedia things. ****And the memory is 2nd. I bought my PVR card about 3 years ago and love it, even pull video off of vhs tapes through WinTV and edit and clean up and place on dvd's or cd's. Also if you edit, you need the fsb speed and the memory. Can't wait to get a faster processor and kick a system. I got it to work in XP as I dual boot with 98SE and XPPro, runs fine, but the record timer does not work in XPPro. Any solutions to this let me know. Hope this helps.

Go to this site, for the Crucial scanner, it is from Computing.net: http://www.crucial.com/promo/?prog=desktop And it will scan your system for memory, processor speed, fsb, etc. Ansered my own question guys, I have a lousy 100 fsb, that explains why I have to "baby" the system, i.e. ctr-alt-del, clear cache, etc for it to work. Hope this helps.

there is tons of stuff on hauppuage website of problems with screen freezing etc. I had one of their cards and got refund from PCworld in the end as it was hopeless. It seems that with some chipsets / graphics cards it is just never going to work. The one i had , had 3 options of setting: Allow Overlay - this froze after a couple of minutes but whenever anything moved on screen it left a blur/trail behind it. Forced Primary- perfect picture but froze after a few seconds and needed reboot, DIB Draw- well it didn't freeze but the picture was terrible quality and out of sync with sound.