Hi - my brother just bought this card secondhand thru Ebay.
It came alone - no leads, cds or manual. He installed the 4.4s
and played a bit of Far Cry and is very happy. Now he's installed the
multimedia center and hooked up an aerial and wants to watch TV on his PC
but the TV box is blank and theres no option we can see to scan for channels
etc ... what do we do ?
Thanks for any help
Ben

"Sleepy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:JmGoc.2427$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi - my brother just bought this card secondhand thru Ebay.
> It came alone - no leads, cds or manual. He installed the 4.4s
> and played a bit of Far Cry and is very happy. Now he's installed the
> multimedia center and hooked up an aerial and wants to watch TV on his PC
> but the TV box is blank and theres no option we can see to scan for
channels
> etc ... what do we do ?
> Thanks for any help
> Ben
>

http://www.ati.com/support/manualpdf/index.html
http://www.ati.com/support/faq/
http://www.ati.com/products/multimediacenter/index.html

In article <JmGoc.2427$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi - my brother just bought this card secondhand thru Ebay.
> It came alone - no leads, cds or manual. He installed the 4.4s
> and played a bit of Far Cry and is very happy. Now he's installed the
> multimedia center and hooked up an aerial and wants to watch TV on his PC
> but the TV box is blank and theres no option we can see to scan for channels
> etc ... what do we do ?
> Thanks for any help
> Ben
>
Does he have DirectX 9.0b installed and you're not using NTSC (i.e PAL,
Secam, NTSC-J)? If so there's a bug in it which prevents TV tuners
being used with certain hardware including ATI. Microsoft have a patch
for it. When I installed it though I ended up having to re-install the
display drivers after the reboot but it fixed the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx
displaylang=en&familyid=8dfd1b6d-e177-4a0e-91d0-b4310675b02b

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Conor

If you're not on somebody's **** list, you're not doing anything
worthwhile.

thanks Conor - that fixed it. he's now happily tuning it in.

"Conor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <JmGoc.2427$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > Hi - my brother just bought this card secondhand thru Ebay.
> > It came alone - no leads, cds or manual. He installed the 4.4s
> > and played a bit of Far Cry and is very happy. Now he's installed the
> > multimedia center and hooked up an aerial and wants to watch TV on his
PC
> > but the TV box is blank and theres no option we can see to scan for
channels
> > etc ... what do we do ?
> > Thanks for any help
> > Ben
> >
> Does he have DirectX 9.0b installed and you're not using NTSC (i.e PAL,
> Secam, NTSC-J)? If so there's a bug in it which prevents TV tuners
> being used with certain hardware including ATI. Microsoft have a patch
> for it. When I installed it though I ended up having to re-install the
> display drivers after the reboot but it fixed the problem.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
> displaylang=en&familyid=8dfd1b6d-e177-4a0e-91d0-b4310675b02b
>
> --
> Conor
>
> If you're not on somebody's **** list, you're not doing anything
> worthwhile.

Anybody got this working with Linux?

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Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice;
UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are
private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/

I did, with RedHat 8. I'm not a linux guru though, and set this up a long
time ago, with much pain, but I can try to provide information and help (as
much as I can remember anyway).


"Angela Kahealani" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Anybody got this working with Linux?
>
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> Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice;
> UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are
> private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/