New to Sage, New to HTPC

[bbenkstein]

I seem to be having problems getting Sage to recognize my tuner cards. Every time I try to set them up Sage can't seem to find the correct card and the setup hangs and I'm forced to hard reset. Here is my config so far:

HP Pavilion a6250z PC
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
- AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 5600+ dual-core - 2.8GHz
- 4GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (4x1024)
- 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT, DVI-I, TV-out, HDMI
- 500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
- Blu-ray / HD DVD player & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner
- Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
- Hauppage WinTV HVR-1600 (1178)
- Hauppage WinTV HVR-1800 (1129)

SageTV 6.3.5

Everything seems fine but when I get to the setup capture card page I don't see the 1600 or the 1800. I see a 418 vr, 418 ts, 835 vr and 835 ts (or somthing like that). When I try to set up either 418 card it hangs trying to get a picture. The 835 cards kind of worked. After setting the 835 cards to use the tv tuner I tried to setup the video output and the system hung there as well.

The last thing I tried was disabling the uac function in Vista but that blew up my PC so I'm waiting to restore to factory defaults.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[bbenkstein]

Oh yeah, my inputs in the Hauppage 1600 are a coax cable and then I'm trying to use the S-Video from my cable box. The 1800 uses two coax cables.

[bbenkstein]

Sorry, I was looking in the wrong forum. I'll try the tips mentioned in the "Setting up HVR-1600" post.