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Posted by JW on July 7, 2008, 3:14 pm
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Windows Update often has out of date updates or ones that are incompatible
with many user's configurations.
Use Safe Mode and download and install the latest Vista64 drivers from the
Hauppauge Website or reinstall the ones you previously installed and try
again.
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> I was running Vista Ultimate 64 and using Hauppauge's 64 bit beta
> drivers and all was fine until a few days ago, I installed some updates
> and couldn't reboot the machine when told to do so, the green scrolling
> indicator would freeze, then the screen goes black and only power off
> will do anything. Several tries, same results.
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> OK, BTDT, rebooted into safe mode, open device manager and delete the
> Hauppauge card and reboot. It reboots but can't install drivers for
> the Hauppauge card, trying to install the driver results in the PC
> freezing. Tried several times using HW Clear, etc.
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> No success.
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> For some time I've been meaning to go back to original so... I put the
> HP motherboard back into my HP Media Center M7750N and did a system
> recovery back to Vista Home 32. The Hauppauge card installed and all
> went well and then...... Windows update had a bunch of updates,
> installed them and no Hauppauge card, same behavior as described in the
> first paragraph above.
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> So it seems like the current batch of Windows Updates has a bomb that
> kills the Hauppauge card, it's done it twice for me on different MBs
> and different versions of Vista.
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> Anyone else have similar problems?
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