TV Tuners from hell, someone help me before i kill the comp

[Greg12]

I've had 5 TV tuner cards.


2 ATI All in Wonder VE-The picture from any non cable source looked so crappy n flickey it was unuseable.

2 Pinnicle PCTV cards-Neither would play audio for more than 1 minute

2 AserTV cards. I'm on the second one.

The problem now is sometimes it'll loose the signal n i'll have to change the channel to get a picture. Also the sound fades out sometimes. I have updated the drivers and software.

Someone help me

My system Specs are (use these, not my profile)

P4 2.4GHZ
400MHZ front side bus
80 Gig HDD
512 Ram
Windows XP home
Intel Graphics Card
Asus motherboard w/ intel graphics set.
System is all up to date
3 PCI ports, the card is on PCI one. The system supports ACPI.


On anouther note, did anyone have trouble fitting the card into the system. I had to almost force my card into the PCI slot.

[Greg12]

no one has any ideas?

[kitty]

Is your power supply beefy enough for all peripherals? Is your TV signal strong & clean? Eat your veggies?

[Greg12]

The power supply is powerful enough.

The signal is a CATV signal so it's fine.


Corn, Braccoli and Green Beans.

[kitty]

Hmmm - since you've had so many cards I think we can rule out bad cards.

Digital cable into an analog card? :P

Maybe try a small video amp on the cable - try to get a nice clean signal? Radio Shack would be a good bet there.

You could have a DC offset on the cable. Or more likely a ground loop between the cable jacket and the PC case. RS has an inline DC block also - a voltmeter between the jacket & case would tell (try DC and AC).

Last chance - move down to Virginia

[Greg12]

Analog Cable, we don't have the moneyt o pay for digi-cable.


I'd rather have cable net than digi-cable

[Tbear]

Have you tries differant PCI slot? Didn't over tighten cable to card? Cold solder joint on card?

Had bad solder joint on a TV Tuner card b4.