FM Radio using Vista Home Premium on HP Pavilion 9250F

I have a HP Pavilion Elite (m9250f) which has a built-in TV tuner card.
According to the document came with the computer, I can watch a live TV
program and play FM radio one at a time. Even if I set up TV signal and was
able to watch a live TV connected to an outdoor antenna, I have not been
able to play FM radio. Whenever I tried to play FM radio, the FM Radio Setup
Window popped up with the message "Before using FM Radio, the radio tuner
must be set up. To set up the radio tuner, you must go through TV tuner
setup." I have gone through the TV tuner setup numerous times. When I set up
TV tuner, the TV signal configuration result was "1 tuner detected and
configured. Additional tuners were detected but will not be configured
because either they do not have a matching TV signal or any TV signal at
all." Remember I have neither cable nor satellite service. I have been in
contact with HP technical support last three months without much success.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.

I suspect that the tuner card is a hybrid tuner which means it can not
currently receive both TV and FM. If this is the case MC will only allow
you to configure one tuner signal type. Either analog TV, digital TV or FM.

[John Z]

If you find a solution please post. I have a similar problem, however I probably have 3 independent tuners. There are 3 rf connections TV analog, TV digital, and FM. FM used to work.

After a recent move the first time I tried FM I got the "Before using FM Radio, the radio tuner must be set up. ..." message, even though I had already set up the TV tuner. Going through the TV setup again produced the same result when I tried to use FM. The FM tuner had been working before my move. I have several presets already set for the old location. I want my FM tuner back. If I can't get it in Vista's Media Center, I'll probably try some other software. I'd be interested in suggestions.

Additional information is that I also have no satellite or cable on the TV at this location. I had cable in the previous location. Also the Guide editing does not work correctly. I cannot get correct listings for several of the off the air channels, especially sub channels. Attempting to edit subchannels to show "No Listing Available" does not work. The channel still falsely shows whatever was already there. This was a problem before I moved, but I did get it to work at least once there. My thoughts are that this is a software problem, possibly related to corruption or inability to save one or more of the files Media Center uses. The problems may be related.

I have a possible solution. Even though I do not have an analog TV signal I selected that when setting up TV and added the digital antenna. After that TV setup the FM radio worked. I haven't looked to see what my TV guide looked like but at least I can listen to FM again.

Just because you have 3 antenna connections does not mean that it not a
hybrid tuner card.
However the FM radio tuner may be independent from a hybrid TV tuner.
Did you have both TV and FM radio working with MC at the old location?

[missletoe]

Dude's! I was having the same trouble with my Pavilion Elite m9350f. I had a digital antenna and FM antenna hooked up but no FM in Media Center. I found this forum and read through the postings and out of the blue I decided to add an antenna to the remaining Analog antenna input (which was not previously hooked up) with the cheap wire one that came with the PC and ran through the TV set up again. There was no visible difference in the set up so I thought it wasn't going to work, but when I pulled up the FM radio it had all the controls I was lacking before (PRESET/SEEK/TUNE) and now I'm listening to Edgar Winters " Frankenstien". So to sum up, hook up all antenna inputs (digital, analog, fm). Run the tv channel setup. Listen to FM!
I'm as happy as a clam, I hope this works for you as well

[StayinClassyinSD]

I also had the same problem with my HP d5000z running WMC on Vista.

With the help of these posts, I was able to tinker and get it fixed. But, I did it a little differently.

I selected "manual configuration", "antenna", and "analog only". It went on to ask me if my digital antenna was [also] connected. I picked "yes" and that did it! HORRAY!!!

Now I get all the analog OTA channels (albeit with bad reception, but I don't care about that) AND now I get the OTA HDTV channels TOO! So, the guide has a bunch of channels like 6, 12, 17, etc, and I had to scroll down to see my OTA HDTV channels, e.g. 1061, 1081, 1121, etc. And now the radio works! Listening to classical station in the background right now! WOOHOO!