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Using 2 x DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express tuner cards causes issues with MC7?

Asked by thebeersmith in Microsoft Hardware, Microsoft Operating Systems, Hardware Components

Tags: DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express, MC7, conflict

Hi all,

I have just built a new Media Center PC running Windows 7 (RTM). The machine has 2 DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express tuner cards install (these are PCIe cards) for a total of 4 DVB tuners.

Windows 7 has installed drivers for these cards and all seems fine (under device manager). Under the Media Center interface, 4 tuners are reported and I can scan for stations without issue (well most of the time... on occasions no stations are found at all). However when I go to watch live TV, the first station I select comes up fine, however if I select a new station I get an error. These errors range from "no signal", "tuner is being used by another app" and "an error occurred, please restart media center".

Basically there seems to be a conflict with the cards. Once one card is being used, the other cannot. I have confirmed that each tuner works by simply disabling the other one in device manager and testing. On one occasion I disabled one card then rebooted (as prompted) then re-enabled the card without rebooting (I was not prompted to reboot) and all 4 tuners worked perfectly. However after a reboot I was back to square one.

The hardware is as follows
- ASUS M4N78 PRO mobo (latest bios)
- 2 x DVico FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express cards
- 8600 GTX NVidia graphic card.
- 4 GB RAM.
- Windows 7 RTM

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Anthony.
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