New Win2K Drivers kills Hauppauge TV Card?

Jim Davis

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Mar 1, 2001, 8:02:37 PM3/1/01

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Although I'm in love with the new features (having run Win98 previously with
the g400 having independent resolutions again is very nice), the instant I
installed them WinTV 2000 (supporting my Hauppauge WinTV PCI card) stopped
working. I get a "driver may be in use by another device" error.

I've attempted to reinstall the Hauppauge Drivers and the WinTV 2000 app. I
also tried setting the card to "force primary" and "DIB Draw" as opposed to
preferable "Overlay" mode. No joy all around.

Has anybody else encountered this problem or better yet worked around it?

Jim Davis

Frank

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Mar 1, 2001, 9:32:04 PM3/1/01

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Are the WinTV card and the G400 sharing an IRQ? If so, try
moving the PCI card to another slot.

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John Maynard Keynes

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Mar 1, 2001, 9:50:01 PM3/1/01

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This shouldn't be an issue in Windows 2000. At least, it isn't for me.

John

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Steven Whatley

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Mar 1, 2001, 10:44:45 PM3/1/01

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Jim Davis <newsm...@vboston.com> wrote:
> Although I'm in love with the new features (having run Win98 previously with
> the g400 having independent resolutions again is very nice), the instant I
> installed them WinTV 2000 (supporting my Hauppauge WinTV PCI card) stopped
> working. I get a "driver may be in use by another device" error.

I have the WinTV card, Win2k, and a G450. WinTV runs just fine. But, I
have seen this error before. In the device manager, do you see only one
Hauppauge audio device and one Hauppauge Video device? Get rid of any
duplicates. There should only be one audio and one video Hauppauge
device.

Is there an Other Devices grouping in the Device Manager? If you do see
other devices, are there two unknown multimidia devices? If these exist
removed the unknown devices. If you have still having problems take a
look at the Win2k WinTV group at Yahoo! (was under eGroups.com) at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinTV

Later,
Steven

Yahoo! says "Resistance is futal. You will be assimulated."

Woolly Mittens

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Mar 2, 2001, 1:13:15 AM3/2/01

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After a reinstall of the haupage drivers it works perfectly again...

Valkyrie

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Mar 2, 2001, 2:29:10 AM3/2/01

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Steven,

Out of curiosity, are you able to move the TV screen from one monitor to
another (if you're using dual-head)? I'm wondeirng if any other TV card
besides the rainbow runner can do that.

Thanks,

Valkyrie

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Bhadan

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Mar 2, 2001, 3:48:23 AM3/2/01

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Hello,

I've had this problem several times in the past. The best thing to try
is to just simply do a complete shut down of the system for a few
minutes and then restart. It works for me.

Thomas Ruch

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Mar 2, 2001, 6:04:54 AM3/2/01

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Sorry, I'm not Steven, but I can tell you, it works perfect with my WinTV
and my G450DH. No Problem. I'm using the older driver, which emulate one big
screen out of the two I'm using for the OS (W2K).

Bye Thomas
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Jim Davis

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Mar 2, 2001, 6:52:12 PM3/2/01

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I finally get the damn thing to work again. Thanks for all the help! To
answer some of the suggestions:

Nope, they're not sharing an IRQ (even under Win2000 they don't seem able
too). In fact the only device that I've ever gotten to share with the g400
is my SB Live - multiple network cards, the WinTV, several firewire and
several Adaptec SCSI cards have failed to work (on my mobo, a SOYO 6b-III
PCI slot 1 and 5 share an IRQ with the g400 - only the SBlive will work in
slot 5 and NOTHING will work in slot 5... or is that the other way 'round?).

The WinTV was working great with the 5.x drivers, but stopped working when
the 6.x drivbers were installed.

Anyway, here's what I did (although I don't know what actually ended up
fixing it):

I removed the drivers (using both the control panel applet and the "remove
all files" prog from Hauppauge) and reinstalled several times. No joy.

The Hauppauge video listing in device manager was "troubled" with "error 19"
that, after some research, indicated that the system could not read the
"enum" key from the registry. I attempted to reset the security settings
for the key to allow system access (it seemed to already have it, but I
tried anyway). No joy.

I then uninstalled everything again and tried the stand alone WDM drivers
from Hauppauge. They worked! Sort of... The video quality with those
drivers is AWFUL and for some reason the audio was no longer linked to the
mixer properly (WinTV 2000's volume control no longer worked). So I trudged
on trying to get the VFW drivers to work.

I tried to uninstall the WDM drivers, but the "remove all files" prog
Hauppauge didn't work and they didn't seem to want to budge. So I removed
the devices manually from device manger, cleared the registry keys
(including the brooktree keys) and killed all the Hauppauge INF files.

Then I installed the original driver set and everything worked.

Go figure.

Jim Davis

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Jim Davis

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Mar 2, 2001, 7:00:04 PM3/2/01

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I am using dual-head and the answer is "yes" and "no". ;^)

Under the 5.x Win2K drivers (extended desktop) you could move the window
from one to the other.

Under the 6.x drivers you can if you leave it in "extended desktop" mode,
but not if you choose to use independent displays.

Under Win98 independent displays is the only option so no, you can't.

The basic issue is that under MS multi-display only the primary display can
support overlay. I haven't actually tried to see if DVD Max (now that it
can be used on a second monitor OR TV) will pipe the WinTV's display...

Jim Davis

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Patrick Clauberg

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Mar 3, 2001, 11:48:29 AM3/3/01

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:13:15 +0100, "Woolly Mittens"
<wmit...@techiez.com> wrote:

>After a reinstall of the haupage drivers it works perfectly again...
>
>

Yes, thats what I did, too,

actually I am running a G400 DH AGP , a viper V330 PCI, a Hauppauge
WinTV PCI and a Logitech USB Webcam.

Now I have everything working fine, but I had to install

1.) g400 including manual change to 100 Hz. Viper not on the board
when both cards were present, i could not change the monitor frequency
thing. (he always told me so select a monitor first, which was
impossible)

2) the viper with the normal w2k drivers

3) the logitech USB cam

4) finally put the wintv onto the board and install the drivers.

I was plugging in / out , installing / uninstalling about a day and
finally this was the only order that worked.

good luck

Patrick

Jopei

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Mar 5, 2001, 3:18:54 AM3/5/01

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On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 01:02:37 GMT, "Jim Davis" <newsm...@vboston.com>
wrote:

re: When you put the Hauppauge card in a other pci slot the software
detects new hardware and after installing the driver (software ) your
problem is solved.