Windows Media Center Weak/No TV Signal until I restart...
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07 Kasım 2009 Cumartesi 15:30SYSTEM INFORMATION:
I have Windows 7 x64 Home Premium installed on my system. I have a dual TV DVB-T Tuner installed (Geniatech T1880). I have an ASUS M2N68-CM Motherboard, 3.1GHz AMD 64 Dual Core CPU, 4GB DDRII RAM, 1TB HDD space, ATi Radeon HD 4350 512MB Graphics Card.
PROBLEM:
Sometimes, when I try and watch TV on my PC, I get either no TV Signal, or Weak TV signal, no matter what I do, whether its rescan, try new cables, try another Arial socket, none of these work, however, if I just restart, it seams to kick the tuner back into action again, this works every time, although I cannot find what could be causing the issue in the first place.
Any ideas? Any suggestions would be helpful!
Michael.
Tüm Yanıtlar
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07 Kasım 2009 Cumartesi 16:48When you say restart, do you mean W7MC, W7 or a cold restart?
- Yanıt Olarak Öneren window midia player 31 Temmuz 2011 Pazar 11:21
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07 Kasım 2009 Cumartesi 18:29 I get same with MCenter but have app from Hauppauge which works for TV record/display when MCenter will not. If your card supplier has same, you could consider same but this is not a solution for you if you want only to watch with MCenter.You could go to re-setup TV in tasks/settings, maybe post any errors in Event Viewer here for further elucidation.
- Yanıt Olarak Öneren window midia player 31 Temmuz 2011 Pazar 11:22
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08 Kasım 2009 Pazar 13:45I have to Restart Windows 7 (Start > Restart) I've tried just restarting media center, but that doesn't work.
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12 Kasım 2009 Perşembe 18:15I tried it with the Total Media ArcSoft software that came with the tuner, still not luck, it tries to play it, however is still too weak to watch.
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14 Kasım 2009 Cumartesi 17:04What is your local transmitter?
Do you have any other means of checking your signal quality?
Intel mobo DG965OT, Core2Duo 6300, 2gB ram, HD4350, Dual DVB-T BGT3510, W7 full retail 32bit, Antec fusion, KeySonic rf k/b, windows ir remote -
21 Kasım 2009 Cumartesi 20:31(Sorry for the late reply)
I found out that my transmitter is Sandy Heath. I've replaced all the coaxial cabling and such, and replaced the TV Tuner, which has made a big difference, however its still not right, its ok about 95% of the time, when I'm just watching 1 channel, however if I watch 1 channel and record another, its back to weak signal, (Green/pink blocks, pixellated, sound cuts out.)- Yanıt Olarak İşaretleyen Vivian Xing 27 Kasım 2009 Cuma 10:11
- Yanıt İşaretini Geri Alan michaelterry 08 Aralık 2009 Salı 17:30
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22 Kasım 2009 Pazar 17:32Muxes 2,A (most non BBC) are transmitting at low effective signal level. Are you sure of your aerial and feed quality? Do you have any amplifiers or splitters?
What model tuner did you replace with?
Intel mobo DG965OT, Core2Duo 6300, 2gB ram, HD4350, Dual DVB-T BGT3510, W7 full retail 32bit, Antec fusion, KeySonic rf k/b, windows ir remote -
08 Aralık 2009 Salı 17:29The feed quality should be good. My parents can get all channels fine downstairs (they are using a BT Vision freeview DVR). I have changed the cabling all over, and the splitter in the loft (from the Aerial fly lead to both Coaxial sockets - the one in my room, and the one in the living room).
The replacement is a Pinncale 3010iX Hybrid Dual DVB-T/Analogue/FM Tuner.
After removing my bluetooth adapter, it got better, however, I still can't watch 1 channel, and record another, due to the signal becoming too weak!
Sorry for the very late reply, for some reason its not alerting me when someone has posted a new message :S
Regards,
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09 Aralık 2009 Çarşamba 22:00
I thought it was something I said ;)
I would try removing the splitter and feeding the signal directly to your tuner to see if an extra 3db makes a difference. If it does, you've either got a week signal at the mast head or excessive losses in the coax path.
Intel mobo DG965OT, Core2Duo 6300, 2gB ram, HD4350, Dual DVB-T BGT3510, W7 full retail 32bit, Antec fusion, KeySonic rf k/b, windows ir remote -
12 Aralık 2009 Cumartesi 19:57Hehe :) I will try that tomorrow, parents are watching TV right now, they wont like me disconnecting them. Once I have, I'll update, and hopefully, we will know what's going on!
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19 Aralık 2009 Cumartesi 16:11Right... After finally getting 5 minutes where no one else is watching/recording tv, I checked it, going straight through, from the Arial to the PC, and it's still exactly the same... Annoyingly, because it means im still just as clueless about how to fix this weird problem!
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06 Şubat 2010 Cumartesi 19:40Any progess on this? I have exactly the same problem, also with Windows 7 x64. I'm sure it's not a poor signal because I've just installed a good quality mast-head amp and ScanChannelsDBA says the signal quality is good - and anyway the picture is fine after a restart so the signal must be good enough.
The puzzle is what causes the image to degrade so that's it's unwatchable - but fine after a restart? -
14 Şubat 2010 Pazar 09:55I have the same problem. Sometimes get weak/ no TV signal message. If I restart the machine it will all come good again.
I have W7 x64 (RC version), Asus P5Q-E, K-World DVB-T, HD4850.
This is a pain because most of my TV shows are set to record and this means sometimes it won't record
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18 Şubat 2010 Perşembe 16:00I have the same problem. This is definitely not solely a signal issue--it is clearly a software issue, a bug in Windows Media Center.1) Using Windows 7 and Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600. I have an antenna picking up ATSC signals. For a particular channel, the channel scan shows full signal strength. The picture is crystal clear, no problems.2) I walk over to the antenna, disrupting the signal and resulting in drop-out. Picture disappears from screen and is replaced with the message "Weak TV Signal - The TV tuner is unable to receive the signal for the channel you have selected. Adjustment to the signal may be necessary to receive this channel reliably. Please try to select this channel again. If the problem persists, contact your TV service provider." This seems sensible. (Well, except for the last sentence, but read on.)3) I move away from the antenna. Signal is restored to full strength (as verified by channel scan), but picture is never restored. I can flip through the channels but that doesn't do anything--I just get a blank screen, followed by the message "Service is unavailable - There is currently no TV signal detected for this channel. The channel may be temporarily off the air. Try again later."4) Closing Windows Media Center and reopening it does nothing to alleviate the problem.5) Rebooting the whole system brings the channel back.So clearly this is a software issue. Once the software decides that the signal is lost, it makes up its mind permanently and never makes any attempt to recover the channel (or the part of the software tasked with recovering the previously-lost signal is non-functional).All the best,Robert K S
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18 Şubat 2010 Perşembe 20:10Suggest you repost this in the forums on http://thegreenbutton.com
Barb Bowman www.digitalmediaphile.com -
20 Şubat 2010 Cumartesi 22:15Ok, I have now replaced so many things, yet it's still not working! I cannot work this out! :S
I have replaced all the cabling, the tuner, the wall socket, the splitter in the loft (I have now replaced it with a mast head amplifier, which although hasn't fixed the issue, has made it slightly better, although still unwatchable.
The Signal is fine until I try and use both tuners, then it gradually gets worse and worse until its completely unwatchable!
You'd think after this long, Microsoft would have fixed this issue, I agree with people here, this is certainly NOT a hardware issue, as I have replaced everything I possibly can.
Thank you for the top Barb Bowman, I will be re-posting this on The Green Button.
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20 Şubat 2010 Cumartesi 23:56In answer to technocrate 's question, I am running 64Bit, however I have more than 3GB of RAM, so downgrading isn't really an option :(
I have posted my problem on The Green Button, you can follow it on there...
Link:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/p/86077/433035.aspx#433035- Düzenleyen michaelterry 22 Şubat 2010 Pazartesi 18:42 Answering a Previous question
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21 Şubat 2010 Pazar 23:50UPDATE: I went to the Hauppauge site and downloaded the latest driver for my WinTV-HVR-1600. While I can't be 100% certain this has fully fixed the bug, preliminary testing makes me think that it has. I can disconnect the power cord for the OTA signal amplification from my antenna, causing the signal to fully drop, and when I re-plug the power connection, Windows 7 Media Center successfully re-acquires the signal. It can re-acquire the signal even if the signal has been lost for long periods of time (e.g., a half-hour).So for those of you having this lost signal problem, see if upgrading your drivers will solve the issue.(There was a question about my OS. I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium x64.)
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23 Şubat 2010 Salı 20:40Thank you for the suggestion Robert K S, sadly... This hasn't worked for me, I have now contacted PCTV/Pinnacle, to see if they have any ideas what could be causing this.
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23 Şubat 2010 Salı 21:40I have the same issue. When there is a problem with the signal quality the windows media center report low signal or not signal and can not recover or i have very bad picture. If I restart everything works fine.
I have the dual TV DVB-T Tuner from Not Only TV LV32T and Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.
I have tried:
- to use ArcSoft software
- I have updated the drivers to the most actual version
- reinstall the drivers
This was not solving the issue
Do you think this could be the solution ?
http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/tuners-windows-7/41895-dntv-live-dual-hybrid-pci-e-s2-now-working-4gb-ram-x64.html -
24 Şubat 2010 Çarşamba 20:05I have tried the software that the user recommended on the other forum from PetrPruner 's post. That proved for me that my drivers seam to be fine, however, I'm currently in the process of installing some of the latest drivers, and I will report back on that soon!
I also just received a Windows Update from Microsoft regarding Windows Media Center for x64 systems, so I'm going to run some testing, and I'll get back to you on that as well, hopefully with some details on the update itself, and where it can be downloaded if it doesn't come through for anyone.
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Update: The latest Windows Media Center update hasn't worked at all for me, no better no worse.
Incase anyone else wants to give it a go, and it hasn't come through Windows Update yet, here's the link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179608
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Update: I've now updated all of my drivers, and flashed my BIOS... Updating the drivers did nothing but waste time for me, but for others it may work, so try it! Flashing the BIOS seamed to have improved the issue, although after leaving it running for some time, its back, and just as bad, so that hasn't worked either :(
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Just done a bit more research following up on PetrPruner's link, which also sugested finding drivers that use the same chipset, but what would be for a different card. This has fixed the slight spiking the DPC Latency Checker software was reporting, although it hasn't fixed the issue with Windows Media Center loosing the signal over time.
- Düzenleyen michaelterry 24 Şubat 2010 Çarşamba 22:55 Update on my problem
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25 Şubat 2010 Perşembe 20:41I have done two things:
A) installed the new version ot the Total media the Arc Software from the internet
B) I have installed the .Net Framework 3.51
After the restart it looks quite well. I don't why it seems that it helped at least partially.
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02 Mart 2010 Salı 16:30I have tried installing the latest software and the .Net Framework 3.51 and things seam to be worse... Pinnacle have got back to me, sugesting its my BIOS being out of date, although I had already updated that, so thats probably not the case...
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03 Mart 2010 Çarşamba 11:19
I have exactly the same problem!!! It is driving me mad.
When I schedule a TV Recording, when it starts recording "Weak/No TV Signal" error is displayed. I only can record TV if I reboot computer.
I am completely sure there is no TV signal problem, because my previous PC (with Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed), used exactly the same TV tuner card and there was no problem.
I used it daily and it worked OK!!!, with the same TV card!!!
My configuration:
Windows 7 x64 HOME
TV Tuner: NOT LIFEVIEW LV32T (Dual)
Memory: 4 Gb
Motherboard: Gygabyte
CPU: INTEL CORE I3 540
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H
I also detail my tests:
-Reinstalled latest drivers and reconfiguration of all channels.
-Changed Antivirus.
-Disabled Firewall
-Tested with null CPU load (no other programs )
-Changed al cables, removing splitters,.... I have even checked my House Antenna orientation and connections. The signal is OK.
-Tested TV signal with another mobile computer with Windows VISTA (TV Signal OK)
-Tested TV signal with my previous PC with the same TV card in Windows Media Center 2005 (TV Signal OK)
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But it doesn't work.
Any idea?
Any suggestion or new test we could do should be appreciated. I have no more ideas to test.
Thanks.
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03 Mart 2010 Çarşamba 19:28ALFBARMON , I know how frustrating it is, sadly, I haven't had a working solution from Pinnacle, or Microsoft yet (Hopefully, Microsoft will post on here, to let us know whats going on - hint hint)
I haven't yet had any working solutions from Pinnacle, they have only suggested what I, and others, have posted on here already, and none of which have worked for me. I will however keep posting the solutions they provide as and when they are given to me, and once i have tested them myself.
After all the extensive testing I think we have all done, I think we can safely say its a major issue with either Windows 7 or Windows Media Center, either way, its not a hardware issue, and that's for sure!
I haven't had any solutions from The Green Button as yet, but hopefully, something will be suggested soon...
Once again, Ill keep you guys updated,
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10 Mart 2010 Çarşamba 23:35Anyone had any other ideas?
I took out my PCI-e x16 card and tried the tuner in there, it worked like a treat... Obviously this is certainly NOT a perminant option nore a solution. Anyone got any ideas on how to sort the PCI-e x1 slot? -
11 Mart 2010 Perşembe 09:22One of the MS folks asked a question in the thread on TBG. He is trying to get
an answer. You should reply to him in that thread. That was a week ago.
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11 Mart 2010 Perşembe 20:16Barb Bowman, I have sent them a PM about a week ago, as asked, however, they haven't got back to me yet, I shall also post back on the forum itself.
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14 Mart 2010 Pazar 05:46I too am having this issue.
Dvico Digital Dual 4(rev2)
Win7 x64
I can be happily watching tv for some time, then after a while when I change channel I will get a "no signal" error.
With Vista, if this ever happened, I would just change channels and then back again and the TV signal would be fine.
Now with Win7, once this happens, no TV channel will work and always give a "No Signal" error. The only way to get a signal back is to reboot the machine.
Interestingly, after i got this error last time, i closed MCE and went to the Dvico Signal Strength checking application. It also can not get a TV signal until I reboot the machine, so it seems that Win7 (or media center) is having an affect on the dual tuner and stops it working.
I hope there is an answer for this soon!! V.frustrating. -
15 Mart 2010 Pazartesi 16:55It seems that it was not a solution it works one week and now I have the same issue.
Do you have sometimes there green blur before you get the "no Signal error"
I am using the graphic card ATI radeon 4600. They have on their site under drives know issues following remark:
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
Media Center may display corruption when viewing DVB-T content
http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_102_release_notes.pdf
Could be there some connection. -
15 Mart 2010 Pazartesi 18:48Testing your theory now... Will update soon!
Update: After downgrading the drivers, I still had the same issue, so sadly that didn't work either, it doesn't seam to be an issue with the ATi Catalyst.
PCTV/Pinnacle also got back to me, they seamed to think that I needed to increase the bandwidth of my PCI-e x1 socket, I didn't have an option that explicitly incrased bandwidth, or voltage (which some motherboards apparently do...) I did however overclock the PCI-e x1 slot, this did nothing, and isn't recommended on many many places online.
So sadly still no fix, any ideas still welcome as I sadly have not yet found a fix or a temporary work around.- Düzenleyen michaelterry 16 Mart 2010 Salı 20:28 Update on the proposed solutions.
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16 Mart 2010 Salı 22:12Let me summarize:
The possible things which may influence:
Tv Tuner - there are several different so it shouldn't be the case all have dual card
Driver - different drivers so it is not very probable
Decoder - I have tried two and no change
Graphic card - all is based ATI radeon
Graphic driver - Catalyst centre
System- we all have windows 7 64 bit
Player - I have tried two Media centre and total media the issue is the same
So the signal get corrupt between the TV tuner and Player. It helps to restart the computer.
So for me it should be something which is connected with win 7 64 bit, the graphic card and dual tuner.
I have found something similar:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=83&topicid=36072&page_no=1
If I am wrong in any of my assumptions please comment
Especially the feedback from Tockers or ALFBARMON would be welcomed to have more info about their configuration or of any other who has the same issue.
Thanks
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17 Mart 2010 Çarşamba 00:06More on my system:
- AMD 780G chipset (ATI HD3200 graphics onboard)
- Latest Catalyst 10.2 drivers for win7
- Dvico dual tuner with latest drivers
- Win7 Media Center
Not sure if this extra detail helps.
I have been referred to this post as a possible solution:
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18 Mart 2010 Perşembe 19:29
PetrPruner , You are most certainly correct from what you have said! I'm borrowing an nVidia card from work tomorrow, so I shall be able to test if its the ATi stuff or not...
I'll get back to you with an answer tomorrow evening if I'm not busy, otherwise over the weekend.UPDATE:
After borrowing an nVidia card from work, I have found that it is definitely something to do with the ATi graphics cards... annoyingly... The nVidia card (i think its a GTS 9400) runs perfectly... Only thing is, I don't know about you guys, but my ATi card certainly wasn't the cheapest on the market, and I don't plan on spending at least another £50 + just for a new card.
So, to sumarize, It is something wrong with either the ATi card makeup, or more likely, the ATiCCC drivers.
I'm going to try to get in touch with ATi, and I suggest (at this point at least) everyone else does the same, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this and get a working solution!
Regards,
Michael.
- Düzenleyen michaelterry 19 Mart 2010 Cuma 18:16 Update on proposed main issue...
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18 Mart 2010 Perşembe 19:30I've had a look at the link you have sent, and I'm going to give the registry fix a go, and I'll let you know soon, providing I don't mess it up!
Update: Although this possible solution didn't make it any worse, it didn't help either, so I'll still be trying an nVidia graphics card tomorrow...- Düzenleyen michaelterry 18 Mart 2010 Perşembe 20:03 Update.
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27 Nisan 2010 Salı 13:13
Posted this over in the Green Button but will put it here if it may help someone.
I had a really weird problem -same as most of you guys. I put together a system as a HTPC and it ran absolutely perfect for over 2 months. Then out of the blue I started getting "weak signal" and "no tuner available" problems. Would not record at all. Well, sometimes it would record anywhere between 5 & 15 minutes. Through a process of elimination I narrowed it down to the Catalyst control centre of the Sapphire ATI Radeon 4350 video card. The 10.3 version. It would run a lot better with the generic W7 driver but not 100%. So I ripped that out and replaced it with an Elitegroup ECS Silent G210 card -512MB DDR2 64 bit. Which I think uses the NVIDIA GeForce G210 GPU. Let Windows update take care of the drivers and everything is working perfectly again. Hope this helps someone.
PS System comprised of Intel E5300 dual core CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, ASUS P5G41T-M LX motherboard and 64bit Windows7 Home Premium. -
25 Mayıs 2010 Salı 08:51I've got a similar problem with my pc getting weak signal. The channels work fine on my TV but not on Media Center. VERY ANNOYING!
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03 Haziran 2010 Perşembe 12:47
Hi Everybody ,
I have the same issue. Re-scanning using only one tuner solve the problem.
Has somebody found a solution to this problem ?
Has somebody found a workaround which allow to use dual-tuner card with MC7 ?
Does Microsoft acknowledge this problem as a "feature " of MC7, hence we can expect a fix soon ?
Thanks
Asus M2N-E | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ | 4GB | GeForce 6600GT | Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-TD-500 (2 tuners) | Terratec Cinergy S2 PCI HD CI (2 tuners)
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08 Haziran 2010 Salı 15:37
Same issue here. The strange part was I just switched out my antenna and then the problem started. It may have started sooner then I noticed because my old antenna had went out so I was without TV for about a week. But, just this morning the wife called to say it was working, and then all of sudden everything stopped.
I have 3 other tv’s on the antenna and all of them are able to get the channel no issues. This is also only with one specific channel 2.1 (frequency is 39). I also have dual TV tuner with ATI graphic card. But, prior to changing antennas everything worked fine.
- Yanıt Olarak Öneren PetrPruner 16 Haziran 2010 Çarşamba 18:18
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16 Haziran 2010 Çarşamba 18:25
HI,
I have sent the TV to the PC to the manufacturer. They have putted between the graphic card and TV Turner in the slot the wifi card. The explanation was that the graphic card is overheating the TV tuner. So far it is not optimal but it is a little bit better.
I don't know if it helps.
BTW If i was experimenting to try to solve the problems things like using only one turner or try to optimize the graphic card helped a little bit. It seems that it is something connected with the card usage.
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28 Temmuz 2010 Çarşamba 18:51
Everyone who has this problem:
1) Quit WMC
2) Quit all running applications bottom right of windows. I.E if you have installed the software from the manufacture, quit that. If you have ATI Catalyst control panel, quit that. Once you have quit anything graphic/WMC related, wait 30 seconds.
3) Start WMC - does that fix it?
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09 Ağustos 2010 Pazartesi 20:16
no
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10 Ağustos 2010 Salı 10:52
Gday,
I have been using 1 Dvico Digital Dual 4(rev 1) DVB-T tuner since XP MCE, then Vista MCE & now 7 MCE, all 32bit flawlessly, up until now. Everything was great until I had my rooftop VHF antenna replaced with a new UHF antenna using Bands 4 & 5, channels 34,35,36,37,40.
Now I have the same problem as many other people here. I checked the signal strength in Dvico's FusionHDTV software, it states around 85%+, but when I start Windows 7 MCE and check the signal strength its reported at around 50%?
I wonder if this is a clue to others?
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09 Ocak 2011 Pazar 22:16
Here is my story.
I had a dual hybrid tuner working perfectly on an upgraded Vista - W7 machine.
I then decided to build just a Media Center machine, better board, better ram, FRESH copy of W7. Have the same issue as stated above.
Old Specs
Intel Q6800 Quad core
6GB 5-5-5-18 Patriot Memory
nVidia GeForce 9800 GT vid card
ASUS P5N-E motherboard
ASUS EDH-100 dual hybrid card
windows 7 upgraded from Vista
3TB 3.0Gb/s Sata
New Media center Computer
Intel Q6800 Quad core
6GB 4-4-4-12 Cosair Memory
nVidia GeForce 9800 GT vid card
ASUS P5N-D motherboard
ASUS EDH-100 dual hybrid card
Hauppauge Win 7 2550 single card
Windows 7 FRESH install
If I remove either tuner from the new PC and put in back into my work PC (old specs) my tuner cards work fine, Im able to stream to Xbox or to new media compter.
Hope this helps
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11 Temmuz 2011 Pazartesi 12:01
Hello everyone! I am also new to windows media center ive dc'd my dishnetwork and made a set up for windows media center using 32 bit windows 7. I have the same annoying problem whenever i log off my windows media center i get a "no tv signal" message when i turn it back on but whenever i would restart or shutdown the pc then i get the strong TV signals back again. I am using ATI HD5450 video card and the old ATI HDTV wonder TV tuner, at first i thought it was the tv tuner so i replaced it with the huppage 1600 but with the same errors. Does anyone have the fix as of this time? Im also trying to see if external tv tuners would help like the HDhomerun. Thanks for any inputs..
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12 Temmuz 2011 Salı 11:31see ifhelps with this.On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:01:44 +0000, RN_men wrote:>>>Hello everyone! I am also new to windows media center ive dc'd my dishnetwork and made a set up for windows media center using 32 bit windows 7. I have the same annoying problem whenever i log off my windows media center i get a "no tv signal" message when i turn it back on but whenever i would restart or shutdown the pc then i get the strong TV signals back again. I am using ATI HD5450 video card and the old ATI HDTV wonder TV tuner, at first i thought it was the tv tuner so i replaced it with the huppage 1600 but with the same errors. Does anyone have the fix as of this time? Im also trying to see if external tv tuners would help like the HDhomerun. Thanks for any inputs..
Barb Bowman
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02 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi 04:54
I have the same problem with Windows 7 Media Center. I have Asus My Cinema US2-100. I works fine with bundled Arcsoft Total Media.
But in Windows Media Center after switching channels for 3-4 times some channels stop working. And scheduled programs don't record.
As my tuner is USB I fix the problem by just unplugging and plugging back the USB cable. But of course it wouldn't solve the problem with scheduled recording.
I don't have much hope here, this thread started in 2009 and there's no reply from Microsoft. I hate it!
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02 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi 10:43You should probably start a new thread. The first thing to check is your powermanagement settings for both the USB and the computer itself. Turn powermanagement off for the USB port so that it does not power down ever. Does thisfix the issue? If not, what happens when you set your PC for high performanceand it is always on?Please post the results in the new thread that you start with this issue.On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 04:54:51 +0000, alexbk66 wrote:>>>I have the same problem with Windows 7 Media Center. I have Asus My Cinema US2-100. I works fine with bundled Arcsoft Total Media.>>But in Windows Media Center after switching channels for 3-4 times some channels stop working. And scheduled programs don't record.>>As my tuner is USB I fix the problem by just unplugging and plugging back the USB cable. But of course it wouldn't solve the problem with scheduled recording.>>I don't have much hope here, this thread started in 2009 and there's no reply from Microsoft. I hate it!
Barb Bowman
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03 Ocak 2012 Salı 04:12
Thanks for the reply, but my PC is already set to high performance, and the problem appears during using Media Center, as I said after switching channels. So I doubt that "power management for the USB port" has got anything to do with that. But I'll give it a try.
BTW, I did try http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/no-tv-signal-for-hdtv-signal-in-windows-7-mc/4c7b08b4-533d-4924-b3fd-f1415e0b1c25, unfortunately it didn't help either. But I have to admit, there was a mess in channel sources which I guess is worth cleaning anyway.
- Düzenleyen alexbk66 03 Ocak 2012 Salı 04:13
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03 Ocak 2012 Salı 11:30
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05 Ocak 2012 Perşembe 01:14
Nothing I'm afraid.
So I ended up buying Leadtek Winfast DTV2000 DS, after a couple of days of research. So far no problems.
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05 Ocak 2012 Perşembe 09:42
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29 Şubat 2012 Çarşamba 16:15
Hi,
unfortunately I have DTV2000 DS, Win 7 32bit MCE - the same problem.
Sometimes - let say 50:50 - must be computer restarted to see TV. Otherwise "weak signal...".
:( no hope now :(
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06 Mart 2012 Salı 20:19
David: I suggest that you repost this at the Windows Entertainment and Connected Home forums, there are some Windows Media Center experts there:
http://experts.windows.com/frms/windows_entertainment_and_connected_home/f/114.aspx
Tim De Baets
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21 Mayıs 2012 Pazartesi 22:59
My guess is you're getting EMI. Electromagnetic Interference can come from other parts of your computer especially powerful graphics cards. You could try moving your tuner card to another slot, or better yet build yourself a Faraday cage to go over your tuner card out of cardboard and aluminum foil and ground it to the case. Be sure that you don't short any of the contacts on the card out. Leave some room for airflow.
Worked for me, I moved my card and the reception got worse, then moved it back and it still kinda sucked, built a faraday cage and it works as good as could be expected with my antenna.
On a side note, anybody know how to turn off those annoying "Could not record your show because of no signal" prompts? Since my signal wavers I don't want to cancel the recordings but I can't stand it when that crap pops up repeadly while i'm trying to do something else. It does it two to four times for every show and even once is too much.
- Yanıt Olarak Öneren Mike Surovik 21 Mayıs 2012 Pazartesi 23:00
- Yanıt Olarak İşaretleyen michaelterry 17 Haziran 2012 Pazar 01:42
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17 Haziran 2012 Pazar 01:42
Interesting you should say that, I've recently been suffering these issues again, visited my old thread, saw your post, and thought... hey... he's onto something there!
Every time I've had an issue like this, it seams to be down to a graphics card issue, this time, i think its where my old nVidia GT9400 has had a minor melt down... I've removed the card, re-scanning for channels, and Instead of getting 0, I'm now getting 81 (at 50% complete)
Tell you what If I weren't so worried about shorting my motherboard, I'd definitely make a Faraday cage for it, the EMI theory does sound pretty likely to be honest!
Thank you once again guys for helping me with this issue! :)
Regards,
Michael.
- Yanıt Olarak İşaretleyen michaelterry 17 Haziran 2012 Pazar 01:43
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