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

["John E" <JCE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Nick Le Lievre" <nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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.


Might be worth mentioning which Hauppauge card you have. I have a 1300HVR 
with 8GB on Vista x64, and don't have the problem you report.

John