I have just purchased a new pinnacle PCTV 50i Tv card , the drivers that came
with it are installing and displaying that the card is infact a PCTV 110i
card. I have come to the conclusion that this is probally the wrong driver
disk ?...do you agree?
also i cant recieve a FM or TV signal from the card ..all the settings are
correct and i could recieve FM and TV singnals on my old one.....so do you
think that

A) its the wrong driver
and B) if it is the wrong driver , could this cause the reciver problems i
am having?
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Many Thanks .

Hi there, found this in Pinnacle's Knowledgebase:

"Similar hardware is used in different PCTV product packaging. The
differences in these products are made within the software.

These packages come with the Pinnacle MediaCenter 3 SE version. Iit is
normal that your hardware is detected with a different name.

Here is a breakdown of the hardware as identified by your computer's
device manager:

PCTV 50i will be listed as PCTV 110i
PCTV 40i will be listed as PCTV 110i
PCTV 50e will be listed as PCTV 100e"

Conclusion: the driver should be fine, altough it is identified as PCTV
110i. Maybe your receiver problems are caused by IRQ conflicts? Advise:
remove any PCI-card from your system, disable devices you don't need in
the BIOS (e.g. serial/parallel ports, floppy drives etc.). Don't forget
to remove the drivers as well. Reboot your system and make sure any
device is properly installed. Check your eventlog for errors before
going any further. If there are any (hardware-)related errors, solve
those before adding the PCTV-card to your system. You could try
different PCI-slot if you're still having problems. Good luck.

Greetz,


taci19 schreef:

Hi there, found this in Pinnacle's Knowledgebase:

"Similar hardware is used in different PCTV product packaging. The
differences in these products are made within the software.

These packages come with the Pinnacle MediaCenter 3 SE version. Iit is
normal that your hardware is detected with a different name.

Here is a breakdown of the hardware as identified by your computer's
device manager:

PCTV 50i will be listed as PCTV 110i
PCTV 40i will be listed as PCTV 110i
PCTV 50e will be listed as PCTV 100e"

Conclusion: the driver should be fine, altough it is identified as PCTV
110i. Maybe your receiver problems are caused by IRQ conflicts? Advise:
remove any PCI-card from your system, disable devices you don't need in
the BIOS (e.g. serial/parallel ports, floppy drives etc.). Don't forget
to remove the drivers as well. Reboot your system and make sure any
device is properly installed. Check your eventlog for errors before
going any further. If there are any (hardware-)related errors, solve
those before adding the PCTV-card to your system. You could try
different PCI-slot if you're still having problems. Good luck.

Greetz,


taci19 schreef: