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I have download the Sony Mpeg Realtime Encorder board driver, but for some reason don't see anything in the device manager.
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Browse All TopicsI had a hard drive issue with the abobe mentioned sony vaio Desktop Model VGC-RB42G.
After installing a new hard disk and windows XP media center the TV tuner card BTF-PA402Z is not detected. Dont see information on sony support. Before the hard drive failure the card worked just fine..
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Did you install all the other drivers as well?
In a lot of cases you need the chipset drivers installed before other hardware drivers get recognised.
I'm not familiar with this Vaio, is the card separate? If so power down & remove it then restart followed by powering down and replacing it. If it's still not recognised try using the Add Hardware Wizard in Control Panel to install a device that is already connected.
There's an outside chance the card is bad but often even a bad card wil be detected by Windows PnP
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by: MASQUERAIDPosted on 2009-10-29 at 23:29:39ID: 25700516
This is the card supplied from new? ny.com/U S/ perl/swu -l ist.pl?m dl =VGCRB42 G
Have you installed all the Sony drivers?
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O riginal - Sony® MPEG RealTime Encoder Board Driver
You are looking for "Sony MPEG RealTime encoder board" (SMRT Capture) in Device Manager