More tuners in Vista on XL-201

[ben_keene]

Hi

Is it possible to run more than 2 tuners in Media Centre in Vista. I am runing Home Premium; it was the Sony free upgrade thingy!

I have added a Hauppage Nova-T 500 which is a dual DVB Tuner card. This works fine. But the Avermedia card is still in the machine and according to the device manager is still working fine. So why cant I use this tuner within Media Centre also?
I know that for whatever reason Microsoft in all their infinate wisdom put a block on users using more than 2 tuners, but is there a way around this?

Has anyone else got three or more tuners going in their machine?

The idea of the Media Centre is cool, but the practise is NOT!!

BK

[ITTroll]

Yes, I am running three in mine. The Avermedia and the Nova-T 500 dual. You need to modify the registry to allow the use of the third tuner. There is a utility called MCE Tuner Extender that can make the change for you but some people have not had success with it. I went for the direct registry edit myself.