Re: Advice to anyone considering 8GB with a TV Tuner

["Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM>]

In news:g6i1d6$r2t$1@xxxxxxxx,
 <nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nick Le Lievre bashed on  keyboard 
and typed:
> I just upgraded my machine to 8GB from 4GB becuase DDR2 is so cheap
> at the moment and I have a TV Tuner, it was working pretty well with
> 4GB apart from the occasional glitch where I would get a
> popping/crackling sound repeating and I had to close the WinTV app
> and perhaps reload it a few times, this didn't happen very often with
> 4GB and I thougth it was just a dodgy card.
> So I got 8GB and now I get the popping/crackling repeating sound more
> often, and once it has started the only way to get rid of it is to
> reboot the system, so now I am finding I can only really use the card
> after a reboot, apparently its to do with the way a 32bit subsystem
> is accessed under 64bit vista and there is nothng Hauppage can do to
> fix it at the moment, so bear this in mind if going to 8GB with a TV
> tuner... its just not conveniant to have to reboot the system
> everytime I want to watch TV.

Buy a telly.

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Trev
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