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TV Card driving me nuts

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Name: Zero Cool
Date: June 8, 2003 at 10:11:45 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home Edition
CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2100+ / 1,536MB
Comment:

Hi everyone, I'm back :)

I recently replaced my Pinnacle PVTV Rave as it burned itself out, I exchanged it for a Packard Bell PCI TV Card PB-TV100

Only had this card as it came with a free remote control :)

The TV Card works great, controler even works great, also a fantastic picture on it, my main problem is after a certain amount of time watching live TV the PC freezes up and I have to reboot manualy, the time this happens can range from 2mins up to 15mins then PC freezes, if I use the PC when not watching TV the PC runs perfectly, soon as I load the software the PC still runs great and fast, but for no reason locks up :( :(

It is driving me nuts, this NEVER happend with the old TV card as I could leave my old TV card running for days and it would still be running great

I have updated my software but it had no affect

What the hell is happening, I have ruled out that it is not a PSU problem as I have taken all PCI slots out, all CD Drives out and even my 2 floppy drives, but the TV still looks up, I have also ran the TV card in Safe Mode but same problems :(

Here is My PC Specs

KT3 V ( LAN Version )
Windows XP Home Edition ( Completely Updated )
Jeantech 300wat PSU ( Power Supply Unit )
Athlon XP 2100+ Palomino @ 1.76GHZ 42C idle, 48c full load, Average 45C
Volcano 9 ( Full Speed @ 5500rpm )
1,536MB ( 1.50GB ) DDR PC2100
Soundblaster live 5.1 Digital
2x Floppy Drives
1x CD-RW Drive
1x CDRW/DVD ROM Combo Drive
PNY Geforce 4 TI 4200 MB 128MB
1x 120mm case fan ( Blowing in )
1x 80mm Case fan ( Blowing Out )
1x fan blower on a PCI slot
1x Cooldrive 4002 ( Hard Drive Cooler )
80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache
NTL 600K Broadband Connection
3DMark 2001 SE 10,617 Points
3DMark 2003 1,612 Points

Thanks all for your help, I appreciate it

Zero Cool



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Response Number 1
Name: johnoh
Date: June 8, 2003 at 11:18:20 Pacific
Reply:

This sound like either bad memory on the tv card, but more likely a software problem. Is there any other software you can use? Here is a site with a a lot of stuff for the PC video world.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools


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Response Number 2
Name: Zero Cool
Date: June 8, 2003 at 11:53:05 Pacific
Reply:

Had a look at the site yo gave me but nothing I could use :(

Here is where I could the latest drivers from

http://www.lifeview.com/Service/Download/download.html

And this is what the TV Card look like

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/store/martprd.dll/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1874706425.1055098251@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadcihegmldgcefecfgmdffgdfli.0&page=Product&sku=660352&category_oid=-9958

( Sorry for the huge link )

Do you know of any software that can use a video card to play TV

Thanks

Zero Cool


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