I bought a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150, Media Center Kit a few hours ago, and
when I installed the drivers, Vista crashed.
To make a long story short, after trying it out in another box, running XP,
I plugged it back into my Vista box, and I used the first slot of the PCI
slots, and after booting up, the hardware was recognized, drivers installed,
and shortly after I was up and running with Media Center, and TV.

So, anyone else having problems, read the instructions and note the part
that says...
"On some PC's, the WintTV-PVR needs to be plugged into the first or second
PCI slot."

My first slot would appear to be the one furthest away from my AGP slot, and
at the bottom of my case/mother board, since that's the slot that works.
I wonder if my older Win TV card would work in that slot, or slot 2. 2 TV
tuners, might be nice.

Maybe they are just trying to insure that it is not plugged into the slot
next to the AGP card since on some motherboards with 4 or so PCI slots the
slot next to the AGP slot shares its IRQ with the AGP slot which can cause
problems with 2 high bandwiedth cards like a tuner and a graphcis care.

"Gary Mount" wrote in message
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I bought a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150, Media Center Kit a few hours ago, and
when I installed the drivers, Vista crashed.
To make a long story short, after trying it out in another box, running
XP, I plugged it back into my Vista box, and I used the first slot of the
PCI slots, and after booting up, the hardware was recognized, drivers
installed, and shortly after I was up and running with Media Center, and
TV.

So, anyone else having problems, read the instructions and note the part
that says...
"On some PC's, the WintTV-PVR needs to be plugged into the first or second
PCI slot."

My first slot would appear to be the one furthest away from my AGP slot,
and at the bottom of my case/mother board, since that's the slot that
works.
I wonder if my older Win TV card would work in that slot, or slot 2. 2 TV
tuners, might be nice.