have you contacted the support staff at the card manufacturers Website via
phone or email? If yes what did they say?
If not then contact them and see what they say.


"moos" <moos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i have a mentor pc-tv card installed on my pc. anytime i try to start the
> application i get a message "Initial H/w fail" warning. i can not move any
> step further from here. what does this mean? what makes it impossible to
> watch tv programs then on my windows xp?