HELLLLLLLLLLLP!!!

[orvclked]

I recently purchased a new Dell w/a 2 Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM along with a Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP capture card.

I split my cable coming out of the cable box. This way I could record shows off of HBO. To my surprise I fried my motherboard hooking the system up this way. Does anyone know why or how this happened. I just had Dell put a new motherboard in my PC but I'm afraid to try it again.

Does anyone have a similar setup? Does anyone know if there are problems capturing from digital cable? (COMCAST DIGITAL)??

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-niko

[unclebud]

Try capturing video using composite or S-Video in if you have it.

[LordKariya]

It seems VERY unlikely you fried the mboard by having coax into the video card. What makes you think that caused it ? Did u try and shove it in the usb slot or something ? If you're paranoid, use composite or s-vid out from the cable box instead. That just doesn't make sense though.

[vinchi007]

I had similar problem. It's just probably you checked inside and touched your motherboard with bare hands where they were magnatized at a time and that's why you might have fried it. Check your hands before touching any hardware components.

[roli_bark]

It may also be that your CATV Coax Connector shield is not properly grounded at your premise, and carries some relatively low Voltage potential (30V ...) - enough to destroy the board.

To verify - take a Voltmeter (if you have one) - and measure the Volts potential between your CATV Coax Shield and the casing of your PC. It should read a Solid '0'.

[kitty]

Usually the cable ground is grounded to a water pipe ground where it enters the house. Yes it should read zero volts when measured ground to case of computer.

I blew up my MPEG card 3 years back doing a similar thing with the vid out to a TV that were at different potentials.