Help me setup premium cable tv with my PC.

Hello,
I've been lurking in this forum for a long time, and I usually can fix most technical issues, but this issue which i am having is baffling me.

I have an Alienware system, running i7 990 extreme edition,with dual nvidia gtx580, 12 gigs of ram.. the works.. I purchased an ati HD Tv wonder digital cable tuner. This is the external unit, which connects to my desktop via usb. I have verizon fios. I ordered a cablecard, and i placed it into my ati unit. I called verizon, they said they activated it. I gave them the data ID, host id etc from windows media center, but this system still doesn't seem to work. When i go into settings, my pc sees the motorola cable card, it sees the ati cable tuner, but when i press activate cablecard, it tells me that it cannot be found.

Verizon on their end tells me that it is activated... Any one have any idea how I can get this to work? I did plenty of online searches, and I couldn't even find a pdf file about my device. I am at my wits end. Any one using this setup? How do i activate this damn thing?

thank you for the help.

I am using windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. The card i am using is an M card.


I tried the whole setup in windows media center setup, it tells me that cable card cannot be found, but when i go into diagnostics, it finds the card, and that is where i found the data id and host id number which verizon asked for.
If verizon only offers M cards, and my device is only compatible with S cards, then i am screwed...