I decided to completely rebuild my media center PC as I was making no progress on the problems I had discussed in my previous post.
I dropped in a new hard disk as drive C: (leaving in my old one to allow me to copy data off) and installed Vista Ultimate, no problems there. It did not find drivers for my ASUS motherboard SoundMax card or for my Hauppauge Nova T 500.
I download and installed the XP driver sound card pack for ASUS, I then looked on Hauppauge site and found that they have at last released a Vista 3.3c disk for most of their current range.
I then installed the current free version of AVG anti virus. I then copied all my recorded TV programs, MP3 etc. from the old drive.
With these installed everything seemed to work I scanned for digital TV channels, could watch recorded TV, or a DVD and the PC went into and out of sleep mode without an issue. So I left the PC overnight…………….
When I tried a DVD the next day I got the same error about ‘copy protection’ I had had before, saying I should update the driver. I then look at the ATI site and found they also have just released a new Vista driver set. I installed this and the DVD work - but I had seen this before, everything was OK until I rebooted the PC when I had to repeat the ATI install process (over and over again). After this complete rebuilt this did not seem to be the case. So maybe I have a working PC now? Only time will tell.