Adding Hauppauge PVR USB 2.0 pegs CPU @ 100%

[BBCritical]

I have an Asus a7v600-x board with an AMD 2600+ and 2 Gb of RAM on my sage server. I have a PVR-500, PVR 150 and an ATI PVR USB 2.0 Tuner installed for a total of 4 video sources running fine. I purchased a Hauppauge USB 2.0 PVR and when I try add it in the video sources screen it immedidatly shoots my CPU to 100% in the preview screen. From that point on it wont do anything. Anyone have any suggestions? I would really like to add this tuner since my kids always use livetv...

[stevech]

Originally Posted by BBCritical

I have an Asus a7v600-x board with an AMD 2600+ and 2 Gb of RAM on my sage server. I have a PVR-500, PVR 150 and an ATI PVR USB 2.0 Tuner installed for a total of 4 video sources running fine. I purchased a Hauppauge USB 2.0 PVR and when I try add it in the video sources screen it immedidatly shoots my CPU to 100% in the preview screen. From that point on it wont do anything. Anyone have any suggestions? I would really like to add this tuner since my kids always use livetv...

Mine's an older ECS motherboard + AMD2400, 1G, Hauppauge PVR USB2 tuner. Recording, CPU runs about 20%. Recording and playing back it goes up to 35-45%. I'm using XP Pro Sp2 and Hauppauge's drivers from the CD; didn't go for later versions by download. May be unrelated, but the USB 2 connection is on a PCI bus card that has no other USB devices on the same hub.

[Opus4]

How is the PVR-USB2 connected? There may be some other issue of course, but the only problems I remember hearing about that device related to using a USB2 connection that didn't work right; switching to a different USB2 add-on card worked. If it is a hub, perhaps try a main USB2 port.

Also, try using it with the Hauppauge software to see what happens.

- Andy

[stevech]

The ECS mobo I have is old enough where, oddly, the 2 USB ports on the front of the case behave as USB 1 not 2. I read (so it must be true) someone say that the PC board for the USB plugs at the site of the connector has to change for USB2 and some cases didn't do this soon enough.

To be safe, I spent $20 or so on a new USB2 PCI card and the Hauppauge is the only thing on that card. May be overly paranoid, but Windows' built-in drivers are never very efficient.