Embarrassed Update: It turns out it was not the Hauppauge 2650 that
died but rather the power wart I was powering it with. The replacement
2650 arrived and had the same issues as mine. I replaced the power wart
and my old 2650 is running great.
There is a story behind the
power wart I was using, my original Hauppauge power wart died and they
shipped me a replacement. While waiting for the replacement I found one
in my parts bin that matched the output so I put it to work. Weird to
lose two power warts in such a short time frame. I now have the HTPC on
a UPS so if it was power issues causing the failures I should be OK
now.
My Hauppauge 2650 tuner started acting flakey, going offline and
refusing to tune channels, usually rebooting the computer would fix the
issue so I'm not positive the problem was Hauppauge's. Now the
Hauppauge has died completely, all that I get is a quickly flashing
tuner 2 light, all others are out.
Hauppauge's warranty is 2 years
and they've been good enough to pre ship my replacement, unfortunately
it shipped by slow boat and won't arrive for a week.
Thankfully my
wife hasn't returned her cable DVR yet so she is not out of business
for this time. All of the issues that I've been facing are not
instilling confidence in her for this switch over to a PC DVR.
Hopefully all will work well soon.
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