TV card not detected at all

[poirot]

Hi there! I have a problem with my new pc and it's driving me crazy. It´s a P4 2.8c on Asus P4P800 Deluxe with HT enabled, winXP pro. The problem is it doesn´t detect my ETech TV card at all (which works perfectly when i plug it in the old pc). I´ve read about HT having problems with tv cards a while back and that it should be turned off for tv cards to work. I´ve tried that, but then the system won´t boot, POST reports ´No CPU detected'. I have the latest bios, radeon 9200 with latest Omega drivers. I tried pci slots with sound card and it worked in every one, so they're fully functional. Somebody on another forum suggested that it's video card to blame, so i tried the same vid card and tv card in the old pc and thay worked, so it's not that. Now i'm thinking it's mobo's fault cuase i've just read in a magazine that P4p800 boards have problems with tv cards. Are there any bios settings that could interfere with tv card detection specifically, cause i have no such problems with any other device. Can anybody help me? I've posted the problem on dozens of other forums and still nothing.

[pchan]

First you must confirm that you CPU, RAM, Video card and mobo are OK. Remove your TV cards, disconnect your drives (hard disk, floppy, CD Rom) and powr up. Your system should detect the CPU and RAM and POST. This is to isolate your system problem. If your system doesn't boot, take out the RAM module and re-insert in. If your system gives a long beep, there might be a problem with your RAM module. If it still doen't POST, take 1 RAM if you have 2. Once, you have confirmed that your CPU, RAM, Video and mobo are OK, connect all your drives. It's best your reformat your hard drive and start clean if you recycle your hard drive from other system. Install your tv card last. I presume you have a soundcard.

[msteyaert]

Did you recently update your directx 9?
You can check your directx version through start-run-type dxdiag
If your directx version is 9b then there's a big chance you have to download a patch and that will solve your problem
Search on google I have the patch but it's a dutch version
the name of the patch is
DirectX9b-KB825116-x86-NLD.exe (dutch version)