I have an old ATI HDTV Wonder TV Tuner - ATI dropped support for it back in XP but it worked fine in Vista & Win7 via a driver downloaded through Windows Update.

The same driver is installed in Win8 through Windows update but any program trying to access the tuner crashes or freezes. I've tried DScaler, nPVR, WatchHDTV, Windows Media Center, and a few others, all that worked with the tuner on Win7. 

"This device is working properly" in the device properties window. Any ideas?

Hardware ID: 

Stream\ATIDTUXX.#PCI#VEN_14F1&DEV_8800&SUBSYS_A1011002#PCI#VEN_14F1&DEV_8800&SUBSYS_A1011002&REV_05

Driver Provider ATI Technologies

Driver Date: 12/8/2005 

Driver: 3.0.83.2036 

Driver Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

Thanks for any help. 

Do not use drivers from update. Instead, use original drivers fro hardware vendor. Use Microsoft Compatibility list and/or vendor's list of drivers to decide if hardware is supported. TV tuners were, are and will be very strange "creatures" that I have very bad score with.

Regards

Milos

You need to confirm with the vendor if the hardware can works with Windows 8.
http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pages/psearch.aspx?type=2.5&product=&contentType=GPU+Download+Detail&ostype=&keywords=&items=

If you figure it out, let me know because I'm dealing with the same thing at this very moment. I think it might be because I've installed the 64bit version of 8, which I would like to keep.

Luckily, I've got a Windows 7 computer that has a new tuner card, and will probably end up switching them, as ATI DTV HDTV wonder card works with Windows 7. 

That should solve the issue, but I might still uninstall 64bit and install the 32bit version, especially if the newer tuner card doesn't work. 

If you find a solution, I sure would like to know it. Windows 8 found the card and installed the drivers, and when Media Center searches for OTA channels it find over 70 with great 100% signal quality, but when I go to view live, it times out with 'no signal, try again later'.

I tried again later, many times, day after day.  Maybe they should say, 'Try again next year"  :-) 

It would seem that you have somehow gotten he old XP driver installed as the date and version you have listed are those for ATI's XP driver not the later one that Microsoft Update installs under Win 7. This thread is over a year old at this time but for anyone else using this information, from what I have read, if you don't install a driver yourself but let Windows Update install one for you one will be installed that will work both for Win 7 and Win 8/8.1. I haven't tried this yet myself but several threads talked about there being a driver available via windows update that will work with the HDTV Wonder ATSC Tuner via Media Center and other tuner applications.

• Edited by willcarr 3 hours 36 minutes ago