Hello chaps and ladies,

I took the plunge and bought myself an OEM Windows Media Center 2005 plus
remote etc., when acquiring a new video card for a spare machine. I plunked
in my old Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card, grabbed the drivers from the
Technotrend site, in this case I installed just the BDA-DriverPack
(06.09.2005) and I also grabbed the reg hack file for the channel offsets
which has helped me in the past when using the old Hauppauge software.
Anyway, it all went well, MCE found the card, and did a scan (which took 90
minutes!!!) but it found 69 services, and in general things looked good. I
did a test record, and that worked fine. Everything looked good, but it was
not!

Later on I went to record something, and came back to find it had given up
the ghost after 5 minutes into the program. Then as I sat down for an
evening of TV viewing, now and then I would get a "Signal Lost" message
coming, which could only be fixed by flipping back and forth between
channels.

Now, my Freeview Signal is pretty good, but it is not perfect, it does break
up a little from time to time, however this seems to completely throw the
Nova-T and/or MCE until manual intervention is performed.

So, it this an issue that is specific to the Nova-T, and would getting a
couple of Blackgold DVB-T cards for example fix this issue? Or is this just
how MCE behaves with a suboptimal signal and I am thus screwed?

This morning I woke up to find that random channels had disappeared,
probably a symptom of the signal issue, but maybe not? Any suggestions?

In case it matters I am using a Asus N6600LE card with the 81.85 Nvidia
drivers, and the latest Nvidia DVD encoder.....

Thanks.

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Alex Griffin