Nvidia TV Tuner Card DOES Work in Vista Media Center
I just upgraded to Windows Vista from Windows Media Center Edition 2005 this weekend and I'm happy to report that my evga single PCI TV tuner card with Nvidia NVTV does in fact work in Vista.
Even though the Vista Upgrade Advisor said it would not work and some of the forums said it would not work I got mine to work. I had to run through the TV setup a few times using manual settings but I did get it to work.
Even though the Vista Upgrade Advisor said it would not work and some of the forums said it would not work I got mine to work. I had to run through the TV setup a few times using manual settings but I did get it to work.
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Did you do a clean install or upgrade? Did you have to download drivers from anywhere or can you share any more details of what you did? I have the exact same tuner and have been holding off moving to Vista for this exact reason.
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Brad C., at
12:13 AM
I don't have a magic formula to get it to work - it just worked for me after I upgraded.
But I'll tell you what I did and hopefully it will work the same for you. I did an upgrade from Media Center Edition 2005 to Vista Home Premium. I went through the upgrade and installed all available patches and updates for Vista before I tried to setup Media Center.
In Media Center I tried to setup my TV tuner. Vista didn't automatically recognize my tuner card so I had to do it manually in the setup. I have a set top box with a digital cable package. At this point I was able to see live TV in the setup so that was encouraging.
The issue I ran into was after setting up the TV tuner I couldn't get Vista to download the guide. I had to reboot Vista several times and keep trying to add the guide listings until it finally worked.
The only other DVD decoder software I have installed on my machine is Power DVD v6 but the Vista Upgrade Advisor said that program might not work after upgrading. (I haven't tried it yet)
Hope this helps and if you try to upgrade let me know how it goes!
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Tim Coyle, at
10:06 PM
I installed Vista Ultimate (32bit) but my 2 single NVTV cards won't work.
It's a clean install, and MC wouldn't recognize my tuners, they also had questionmarks in the hardware manager.
I downloaded the NVTV driver from www.nvidia.com and installed it. Although it's officially for MCE 2005, it installed fine.
But when I've setup my tv all I get is a black screen, and a blue screen with a message stating the tv signal is too low.
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Anonymous, at
6:05 AM
My dual NVTV tuner works, but only recognizes one tuner within Vista Media Center. This is a drag for people that want to use a single card with dual tuners.
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Anonymous, at
4:17 PM
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