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Media Center does not recognize 2nd TV Tuner
I have a Velocity Micro system running Windows Vista Ultimate. I have 4 TV tuners installed. Two of them are ATI DCT (Digital Cable Tuners) that accomodate cable cards, and the other two are ATI 650 Pro tuners (which are analog). I ran Media Center set up. The first DCT was recognized and works correctly. I have tried a million different things and I cannot get Media Center to recognize the 2nd DCT, or even the two analog tuners. The error message I get is as follows: TV SIGNAL CONFIGURATION RESULT 1 tuner detected and configured. Additional tuners were detected but will not be configured because either they do not have a matching TV signal or any TV signal at all. All the tuners have working Cox Cable signals attached to them. All the tuners are recognized in the device manager and are stated to be working properly. All the tuners have updated firmware and drivers. The Norton software was taken off the system to eliminate a firewall issue. ANY IDEAS? -- dkinnett Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Media Center does not recognize 2nd TV Tuner
Drivers for identical hardware MUST be written
to accomodate multiple instances of the device it's intended for. Very few are. If the driver assumes it's only going to see one device, and one device only, it won't work. Video hardware is particularly picky in this regard as it interacts with DirectShow and other components of the OS. Contact ATI and ask them about multiple identical devices in the same system. It is possible to have multiple capture devices (which, at the hardware level, is what these "tuners" are) IF the mgfr writes drivers that allow it (I have multiple Winnov capture cards installed). "dkinnett" wrote in message ... I have a Velocity Micro system running Windows Vista Ultimate. I have 4 TV tuners installed. Two of them are ATI DCT (Digital Cable Tuners) that accomodate cable cards, and the other two are ATI 650 Pro tuners (which are analog). I ran Media Center set up. The first DCT was recognized and works correctly. I have tried a million different things and I cannot get Media Center to recognize the 2nd DCT, or even the two analog tuners. The error message I get is as follows: TV SIGNAL CONFIGURATION RESULT 1 tuner detected and configured. Additional tuners were detected but will not be configured because either they do not have a matching TV signal or any TV signal at all. All the tuners have working Cox Cable signals attached to them. All the tuners are recognized in the device manager and are stated to be working properly. All the tuners have updated firmware and drivers. The Norton software was taken off the system to eliminate a firewall issue. ANY IDEAS? -- dkinnett Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Media Center does not recognize 2nd TV Tuner
you need to set up with either 2 DCTs or two 650 Pro analogs. you
can't mix and match DCTs and other cable TV sources. On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:00:32 +0100, dkinnett wrote: I have a Velocity Micro system running Windows Vista Ultimate. I have 4 TV tuners installed. Two of them are ATI DCT (Digital Cable Tuners) that accomodate cable cards, and the other two are ATI 650 Pro tuners (which are analog). I ran Media Center set up. The first DCT was recognized and works correctly. I have tried a million different things and I cannot get Media Center to recognize the 2nd DCT, or even the two analog tuners. The error message I get is as follows: TV SIGNAL CONFIGURATION RESULT 1 tuner detected and configured. Additional tuners were detected but will not be configured because either they do not have a matching TV signal or any TV signal at all. All the tuners have working Cox Cable signals attached to them. All the tuners are recognized in the device manager and are stated to be working properly. All the tuners have updated firmware and drivers. The Norton software was taken off the system to eliminate a firewall issue. ANY IDEAS? -- Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com |
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Media Center does not recognize 2nd TV Tuner
the OP should have no issues configuring two DCTs. the problem is he
is trying to use two different types of tuners (2 of each flavor). Velocity Micro should have told him this. On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:47:11 -0700, "V Green" wrote: Contact ATI and ask them about multiple identical devices in the same system. It is possible to have multiple capture devices (which, at the hardware level, is what these "tuners" are) IF the mgfr writes drivers that allow it (I have multiple Winnov capture cards installed). -- Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com |