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<blockquote data-quote="tarfon" data-source="post: 412715" data-attributes="member: 88035">I wanted to buy a Hauppauge HVR2200 MCE tuner card but I've been told that my 3-month old computer can't be fitted with this card. The Hauppauge website says about it: &quot;The Hauppauge HVR2200 is&nbsp; . . .designed the HVR2200 as a low profile single-lane PCIe card that ships with both half and full height mounting brackets. Key Features* PCIe Card with full and half height mounting brackets provided.* True single PCIe slot design with single RF input for both tuners.* Dual digital SD/HD tuner.* Dual analogue tuner with hardware MPEG encoder.* FM Radio.* Australian Windows XP MCE and Windows Vista Ultimate (or higher) drivers included. &quot;Belarc reports to me that my computer board is a MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7529 1.0 Can anyone help me with advice on this? Is PCIe slot design for the so-called Express card?Is my computer board an old model or an old version if it can't take the HVR2200?Should I worry about it or just settle for the older Hauppauge&nbsp; Nova T500?Should I make a fuss about it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tarfon, post: 412715, member: 88035"] I wanted to buy a Hauppauge HVR2200 MCE tuner card but I've been told that my 3-month old computer can't be fitted with this card. The Hauppauge website says about it: [I]"The Hauppauge HVR2200 is . . .designed the HVR2200 as a low profile single-lane PCIe card that ships with both half and full height mounting brackets. Key Features * PCIe Card with full and half height mounting brackets provided. * True single PCIe slot design with single RF input for both tuners. * Dual digital SD/HD tuner. * Dual analogue tuner with hardware MPEG encoder. * FM Radio. * Australian Windows XP MCE and Windows Vista Ultimate (or higher) drivers included. [/I]" Belarc reports to me that my computer board is a MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7529 1.0 Can anyone help me with advice on this? Is PCIe slot design for the so-called Express card? Is my computer board an old model or an old version if it can't take the HVR2200? Should I worry about it or just settle for the older Hauppauge Nova T500? Should I make a fuss about it? [/QUOTE]

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