2005-07-21, 12:32 AM
While this forum isn't exactly the place for this, there's alot of helpful and knowledgable folks here, so I'm hoping someone's run into this before and knows a fix.
I've got an old PVR-250 I've been using for years. Model 48011 Rev. F310. I haven't used the onboard tuner in quite some time, I've been capturing direct through S-video. I know the tuner used to work though.
I recently connected the cable feed to it, and tried an auto-tune. It takes a long time, and find 4-5 channels tops. The ones that it finds aren't even channels, just static mostly.
I've verified that the cable, as well as the feed are fine.
The motherboard is an MSI Nforce with an AMD 1600xp running XP SP2. I've tried every slot in the mb to no avail. I've reloaded drivers, old and new. No luck. I've tried manually entering a cable channel frequency and then fine tune up/down from there, no go, just varying amounts of static.
It's as if it were either trying to use the wrong type of tuner, or it's having trouble controlling the tuner.
I could swear way back when I first got this card, that they were sensative to IRQ's used. I started off with it being at IRQ 16, and from moving it from slot to slot, it's currently at IRQ 19. I'm wondering if that's the problem, but I can't choose the IRQ, and my BIOS won't let me assign it per slot to see.
Has anyone seen this and know of a fix? I'm not holding my breath on Hauppauge answering my tech support request with any form of help.
I've got an old PVR-250 I've been using for years. Model 48011 Rev. F310. I haven't used the onboard tuner in quite some time, I've been capturing direct through S-video. I know the tuner used to work though.
I recently connected the cable feed to it, and tried an auto-tune. It takes a long time, and find 4-5 channels tops. The ones that it finds aren't even channels, just static mostly.
I've verified that the cable, as well as the feed are fine.
The motherboard is an MSI Nforce with an AMD 1600xp running XP SP2. I've tried every slot in the mb to no avail. I've reloaded drivers, old and new. No luck. I've tried manually entering a cable channel frequency and then fine tune up/down from there, no go, just varying amounts of static.
It's as if it were either trying to use the wrong type of tuner, or it's having trouble controlling the tuner.
I could swear way back when I first got this card, that they were sensative to IRQ's used. I started off with it being at IRQ 16, and from moving it from slot to slot, it's currently at IRQ 19. I'm wondering if that's the problem, but I can't choose the IRQ, and my BIOS won't let me assign it per slot to see.
Has anyone seen this and know of a fix? I'm not holding my breath on Hauppauge answering my tech support request with any form of help.