Media Center does not recognize tuner

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I have a Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U Connected to a Dell Dimension 9200.
This tuner is listed as working properly in Device Manager, and it works
fine with Sage TV or Intervideo Home Theater, but Vista Home Premium Media
Center does not detect it and reports I have no tuner.

Is this a known problem and is there a fix.
 
"Canvecchio" <Canvecchio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U Connected to a Dell Dimension 9200.
> This tuner is listed as working properly in Device Manager, and it works
> fine with Sage TV or Intervideo Home Theater, but Vista Home Premium Media
> Center does not detect it and reports I have no tuner.
>
> Is this a known problem and is there a fix.

That looks like a nice bit of hardware, but it has no BDA drivers for it to
work with Media Centre. Look on the right, under the links:

http://www.plextor.com/ENGLISH/products/TV402U.htm

"Note: ConvertX products are not compatible with Windows Media Center
Edition or Windows Vista OS"

ss.
 
Don't feel bad. My Terratec Cinergy HT PCI is supposed to be 100% Media
Center compatible, but Media Center can't find it with both hands, BDA
driver 'n all.


--
John_T

*vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*
 
"John_T" <John_T.2xn8bv@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Don't feel bad. My Terratec Cinergy HT PCI is supposed to be 100% Media
> Center compatible, but Media Center can't find it with both hands, BDA
> driver 'n all.

> *vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
> hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*

That might be because there are no 64-bit BDA drivers for it?

ss.
 
"John_T" <John_T.2xn8bv@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> *vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
> hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*

Oh by the way, with a powerful system like that, I bet you wished you waited
for the X38 chipset, which has just come out. I won't be replacing my 975X
based system for another couple of years though.

ss.
 
No, I studied up on the X38 before deciding because I could have gotten
the GA-X38-DQ6. According to a number of test reports I read, the
difference in performance is tiny. My next move will be to DDR3.


--
John_T

*vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*
 
"John_T" <John_T.2xnxb8@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> No, I studied up on the X38 before deciding because I could have gotten
> the GA-X38-DQ6. According to a number of test reports I read, the
> difference in performance is tiny. My next move will be to DDR3.
>


Hmmn, I thought you might know about hardware..

ss.
 
No, I have the 64-bit BDA drivers for the Terratec HT PCI, and it works
fine with the Terratec software, but Media Center does a scan and comes
up with zero channels, while the Terratec program gives me 60 TV
channels and 50 radio stations. Go figure...


--
John_T

*vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*
 
Hi,

I'm using the same TV-Tuner Card (Cinergy HT PCI on Vista 64Bit) and my
problem is that the VistaMediaCenter only is searching for DVB-T Channels,
not for analog... I have no idea where to config MC for this, any ideas?

Thx,
SAT

"John_T" wrote:

>
> No, I have the 64-bit BDA drivers for the Terratec HT PCI, and it works
> fine with the Terratec software, but Media Center does a scan and comes
> up with zero channels, while the Terratec program gives me 60 TV
> channels and 50 radio stations. Go figure...
>
>
> --
> John_T
>
> *vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
> hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*
>
 
If the card does not have hardware mpeg2 encoding Windows Media Center will
not work for analog channels.



"SeniorAsTech" <SeniorAsTech@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm using the same TV-Tuner Card (Cinergy HT PCI on Vista 64Bit) and my
> problem is that the VistaMediaCenter only is searching for DVB-T Channels,
> not for analog... I have no idea where to config MC for this, any ideas?
>
> Thx,
> SAT
>
> "John_T" wrote:
>
>>
>> No, I have the 64-bit BDA drivers for the Terratec HT PCI, and it works
>> fine with the Terratec software, but Media Center does a scan and comes
>> up with zero channels, while the Terratec program gives me 60 TV
>> channels and 50 radio stations. Go figure...
>>
>>
>> --
>> John_T
>>
>> *vista ultimate 64-bit : c2 q6700 : ga-p35-dq6 : 4gb ram : 8800gtx : 2tb
>> hdd : 720w psu : 2x eizo cg241w*
>>
 
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