Video Card issue w/ hauppauge 500MCE

[lordofduct]

OK, first off I have Windows MCE 2005, also I bought a single tuner capture card made by powercooler (powercooler T55e PCI-e 1X capture card) when first building it. I recently purchased a Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner to make a total of 3. I know MCE only supports 2, but the third tuner will be utilized outside of MCE.

Anyways, the day I installed the hauppauge card I also installed a bunch of software based on the .NET framework. When I rebooted my computer I received NO video from my video card! Well I though it was an issue with the software I installed and immediately booted into safe mode and did a system restore.

For 2 weeks (most of which I was out of town, so it took me some time) I attempted re-installing the hauppauge card and continually got an "ACCESS DENIED" error and failed install. After some registry hunting and removal of all traces of the first install I got the bitch to install again.

I rebooted my system and... NO FUCKING VIDEO AGAIN!

So it's the hauppauge card conflicting with my damn video card or SOMETHING. What the hell could it be? I can't find anything on the web about it. URGGGGG!


I'm wondering if the conflict is with my Vid Card (GeForce 7950GX2), the powercooler card (which utilizes an ATI chipset), or with the Vid Card drivers supplied by Dell for my 30 inch monitor.