Wait! After this was done, I went back into Device Manager and tried (which
I've done many times before) to update the driver...Hello and behold, it
works! Now I just have to see if it'll be stable.

"Rob" wrote:

> Very good investigation captain, but it didn't work for my Sabrent Mini Stick
> USB TV Tuner card. This thing has just been hell to me.
>
> "nyoung" wrote:
>
> > Here's what I found after struggling with the "No TV tuner installed" message
> > while setting up TV in Vista Home Premium Media Center:
> > 1. Go to Computer Management...Services and Applications...Services
> > 2. Find Windows Media Center Receiver Service (this is what keeps failing)
> > 3. Look at the "Log On" setting (mine said Network Service)
> > 4. Right-click this service, select Properties, select Log On tab.
> > 5. Look at the "This account:" section (should list what login account is
> > running the service).
> > 6. Change the username to the Administrator account setup within Vista
> > (usually your username) and enter the password for this account --Select
> > Browse...type the username...select "Check Names"...click OK.
> > 7. Re-type the password for this account int the Password & Confirm
> > password fields (don't accept the password it auto-fills with).
> > 8. Click Apply...OK.
> > 9. Left-click the Windows Media Center Receiver Service (if not already
> > selected) and select the "Restart" button on the Toolbar (last icon with
> > green arrow).
> > 10. Check service to make sure it's Status is Started.
> > 11. Crank up Media Center and try your TV setup again...it worked for me
> > after this routine.
> >
> > So, what this all means...Vista security is a beast (that's why you have to
> > select allow on everything you try to run). I'm an IT Network Administrator
> > and this problem just about brought me to my knees! Hell, even Microsoft
> > apparently hasn't figured this out even with all the forum posters having the
> > same problem with numerous different "Vista Compatible" TV cards. This isn't
> > the first time I've had to figure out Microsoft's problems for them.
> >
> > Anyway, please post back if this helps or doesn't. I'm curious to know if
> > this resolution helps all or none.
> >
> > BTW---I have an Angel Dual Tuner TV card, which offered Vista drivers on the
> > manufacturer's website: www.lumanate.com

Dear NYOUNG,

I've followed your instructions and indeed I don't have any more that
message indicating that Media Center Receiver was closed due to some unknown
problem and the "Help" message stating that "Data Execution Prevention had
to close a harmful program, etc..., that I suppose be the famous ehrcrv.exe.

However, I still can't start Media Center Receiver Services, now being the
error message:
"Windows could not start the Windows....
Error 1069: the service did not start dur to a logon failure"
When I try Media Center TV live, I still receive the "No Tuner found...."
It's interesting to note that before I migrated from XP (Media Center
Edition 2005), I never had this problem.

Your help is appreciated
Jose Neves
[HP Pavillion M7388HK, Windows Vista Ultimate, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D, CPU
3GHz, 2 GB RAM]

"nyoung" wrote:

> Here's what I found after struggling with the "No TV tuner installed" message
> while setting up TV in Vista Home Premium Media Center:
> 1. Go to Computer Management...Services and Applications...Services
> 2. Find Windows Media Center Receiver Service (this is what keeps failing)
> 3. Look at the "Log On" setting (mine said Network Service)
> 4. Right-click this service, select Properties, select Log On tab.
> 5. Look at the "This account:" section (should list what login account is
> running the service).
> 6. Change the username to the Administrator account setup within Vista
> (usually your username) and enter the password for this account --Select
> Browse...type the username...select "Check Names"...click OK.
> 7. Re-type the password for this account int the Password & Confirm
> password fields (don't accept the password it auto-fills with).
> 8. Click Apply...OK.
> 9. Left-click the Windows Media Center Receiver Service (if not already
> selected) and select the "Restart" button on the Toolbar (last icon with
> green arrow).
> 10. Check service to make sure it's Status is Started.
> 11. Crank up Media Center and try your TV setup again...it worked for me
> after this routine.
>
> So, what this all means...Vista security is a beast (that's why you have to
> select allow on everything you try to run). I'm an IT Network Administrator
> and this problem just about brought me to my knees! Hell, even Microsoft
> apparently hasn't figured this out even with all the forum posters having the
> same problem with numerous different "Vista Compatible" TV cards. This isn't
> the first time I've had to figure out Microsoft's problems for them.
>
> Anyway, please post back if this helps or doesn't. I'm curious to know if
> this resolution helps all or none.
>
> BTW---I have an Angel Dual Tuner TV card, which offered Vista drivers on the
> manufacturer's website: www.lumanate.com

I changed the service logon options with no luck. I checked the
Microsoft Hardware Compatibility list - ASUS My Cinema P7131 is Vista
x64 compatible. I have the right drivers installed. It works in VLC
Player from which I can record video and audio just fine. ASUS's EZVCR
program is buggy and BSOD'ed on me and caused problems with the driver,
but after installing and uninstalling and rebooting about ten times I
got it working again.

I tried DScaler 4. It plays video and audio but is too buggy in Vista
x64 to be relied upon for something as critical as watching TV! And it
didn't seem to help anyway.

I took a shot in the dark and installed XP Codec Pack 2.8.3. No help

This is a 2 day fresh installation of Vista x64 so I don't think that
reinstalling the OS would help.

I do have User Account Control disabled though if that would make any
difference.

I tried different options in the logon setting for the media center
receiver service such as - Local System with Interact with Desktop,
Administrator (no password yet - shame on me!) and etc.

Media center still says "No TV Tuner detected!"

Any other suggestions I could try?

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Dear NYOUNG,

I followed your instructions and the problem is now solved, but not without
a final twist. Even after the changes in the Computer Mangements..., I still
got the "No TV tuner installed" in Media Center. However, I've checked with a
third party program, WinTV, and it worked fine with my TV tuners. Therefore,
I tried a final alternative in having this program working with my tuners,
while I tried to use Media Center TV. This time the error message from MC was
"... TV tuner is being used with another equipment...". Then, while still
with MC, I exited WinTV and retried MC TV, and this time I was successful.
From then on I haven't any problem with my Media Center TV.
Once again, many thanks for your help.

Regards
Jose Neves

"Jose Neves" wrote:

> Dear NYOUNG,
>
> I've followed your instructions and indeed I don't have any more that
> message indicating that Media Center Receiver was closed due to some unknown
> problem and the "Help" message stating that "Data Execution Prevention had
> to close a harmful program, etc..., that I suppose be the famous ehrcrv.exe.
>
> However, I still can't start Media Center Receiver Services, now being the
> error message:
> "Windows could not start the Windows....
> Error 1069: the service did not start dur to a logon failure"
> When I try Media Center TV live, I still receive the "No Tuner found...."
> It's interesting to note that before I migrated from XP (Media Center
> Edition 2005), I never had this problem.
>
> Your help is appreciated
> Jose Neves
> [HP Pavillion M7388HK, Windows Vista Ultimate, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D, CPU
> 3GHz, 2 GB RAM]
>
> "nyoung" wrote:
>
> > Here's what I found after struggling with the "No TV tuner installed" message
> > while setting up TV in Vista Home Premium Media Center:
> > 1. Go to Computer Management...Services and Applications...Services
> > 2. Find Windows Media Center Receiver Service (this is what keeps failing)
> > 3. Look at the "Log On" setting (mine said Network Service)
> > 4. Right-click this service, select Properties, select Log On tab.
> > 5. Look at the "This account:" section (should list what login account is
> > running the service).
> > 6. Change the username to the Administrator account setup within Vista
> > (usually your username) and enter the password for this account --Select
> > Browse...type the username...select "Check Names"...click OK.
> > 7. Re-type the password for this account int the Password & Confirm
> > password fields (don't accept the password it auto-fills with).
> > 8. Click Apply...OK.
> > 9. Left-click the Windows Media Center Receiver Service (if not already
> > selected) and select the "Restart" button on the Toolbar (last icon with
> > green arrow).
> > 10. Check service to make sure it's Status is Started.
> > 11. Crank up Media Center and try your TV setup again...it worked for me
> > after this routine.
> >
> > So, what this all means...Vista security is a beast (that's why you have to
> > select allow on everything you try to run). I'm an IT Network Administrator
> > and this problem just about brought me to my knees! Hell, even Microsoft
> > apparently hasn't figured this out even with all the forum posters having the
> > same problem with numerous different "Vista Compatible" TV cards. This isn't
> > the first time I've had to figure out Microsoft's problems for them.
> >
> > Anyway, please post back if this helps or doesn't. I'm curious to know if
> > this resolution helps all or none.
> >
> > BTW---I have an Angel Dual Tuner TV card, which offered Vista drivers on the
> > manufacturer's website: www.lumanate.com