I recently took a PC I had and tried to set it up as a MCE PC for the living room.
The PC is custom put together a few years back:
Asus P4PE Motherboard
1GB DDR400 RAM
2.6 GHZ
Windows XP Media Center w SP2
Gainward TI4800SE video card
Hauppague WinTV PVR150MCE
80GB Hard drive (testing the setup before I go nuts on storage)
Software:
McAfee Anti-virus/firewall (2005 version)
I got everything loaded and setup but I have problems with the TV input.
If I run the capture program that came with the PVR150 I get TV input. If I try to set it up within MCE (the greenbutton app, forget what they call it) when it goes to set the video it seems to be flashing a black screen in between the blue screens you normally see and it gets locked up.
I'm connecting from a Scientific Atlanta HD cable box (not on HD channels) using S-Video to the PVR card.
I'm connecting the video card to a Samsung 61" DLP tv via RGB.
Resolution is currently 1280 x 720.
Anyone see a similar issue? I was wondering if it could be the video card, but aside from ATI AllInWonder I don't see many that mention compatibility (but I'm probably not looking in the right place).
I have another PC with a Ti4600 which if that works it might give me an excuse to upgrade that. I haven't taken that one out to try it yet as I just got things setup last night. In addition since the capture app works it seemed that it might not be the video card.
Any clues?
The PC is custom put together a few years back:
Asus P4PE Motherboard
1GB DDR400 RAM
2.6 GHZ
Windows XP Media Center w SP2
Gainward TI4800SE video card
Hauppague WinTV PVR150MCE
80GB Hard drive (testing the setup before I go nuts on storage)
Software:
McAfee Anti-virus/firewall (2005 version)
I got everything loaded and setup but I have problems with the TV input.
If I run the capture program that came with the PVR150 I get TV input. If I try to set it up within MCE (the greenbutton app, forget what they call it) when it goes to set the video it seems to be flashing a black screen in between the blue screens you normally see and it gets locked up.
I'm connecting from a Scientific Atlanta HD cable box (not on HD channels) using S-Video to the PVR card.
I'm connecting the video card to a Samsung 61" DLP tv via RGB.
Resolution is currently 1280 x 720.
Anyone see a similar issue? I was wondering if it could be the video card, but aside from ATI AllInWonder I don't see many that mention compatibility (but I'm probably not looking in the right place).
I have another PC with a Ti4600 which if that works it might give me an excuse to upgrade that. I haven't taken that one out to try it yet as I just got things setup last night. In addition since the capture app works it seemed that it might not be the video card.
Any clues?