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Gilco2

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#71804 17-Nov-2010 10:05
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Hi, I built a purpose built media centre using Windows 7. I havent sorted EPG yet until I get other things working.   For some reason it keeps losing TV3 C4 Prime. All the ones on that frequency or what you call it. This is DVB-T.  TV1 TV2 etc all good even though sometimes get bad pixelation on 7.   I rescan and it finds channels then day later says no tv signal.   I have a DVB-T TV and the channels are fine.  I installed avermedia media center and again all channels work perfect no problem. Avermedia wont play my mkv files and wont turn computer on and off like media center remote will.

My setup is
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2h motherboard
2gB ram
250gb hard drive with windows 7  32bit
1.5 Terabyte hard drive for recordings and files
Avermedia Trinity Tuner card
400watt power supply in Antec nsk2480 case.

I have tried a ati 5450 hd graphics card with same results even pixelation
I have tried Nvidia 8400 graphics card and Nvidia 210 all with same results, so have stayed with inbuilt graphics which is ATI 4250 HD

I can live with pixelation as it is only on 7 and not all the time.  Has anyone any suggestions for the losing channels.

Thanks




HTPC Intel Pentium G3258 cpu, Gigabyte H97n-wifi motherboard, , 8GB DDR3 ram, onboard  graphics. Hauppuage HVR 5500 tuner,  Silverstone LC16M case, Windows 10 pro 64 bit using Nextpvr and Kodi


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  #405836 17-Nov-2010 11:55
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I think the pixelation will be due to signal. It seems that media centre and maybe PC tuner cards in general need a better signal then TV's etc.
I have not ever experienced channels being dropped however I do have a possible theory. Do you reboot your media centre after running the scan and finding those channels? There are quite a lot of things that do not get written/added until windows is shut down. If the computer crashes or is not shut down properly it may not be writing that information to disk and so is lost.







Media centre PC - Case Silverstone LC16M with 2 X 80mm AcoustiFan DustPROOF, MOBO Gigabyte MA785GT-UD3H, CPU AMD X2 240 under volted, RAM 4 Gig DDR3 1033, HDD 120Gig System/512Gig data, Tuners 2 X Hauppauge HVR-3000, 1 X HVR-2200, Video Palit GT 220, Sound Realtek 886A HD (onboard), Optical LiteOn DH-401S Blue-ray using TotalMedia Theatre Power Corsair VX Series, 450W ATX PSU OS Windows 7 x64



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#405851 17-Nov-2010 12:31
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sorry I forgot to put in the TV registers 100% signal strength and 98% quality.   Avermedia just registers 100% strength




HTPC Intel Pentium G3258 cpu, Gigabyte H97n-wifi motherboard, , 8GB DDR3 ram, onboard  graphics. Hauppuage HVR 5500 tuner,  Silverstone LC16M case, Windows 10 pro 64 bit using Nextpvr and Kodi


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  #405855 17-Nov-2010 12:39
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I think you will find that the instructions in this link will solve your problem:

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/tuners-windows-7/42984-changing-wrong-tuner-sources-problem-information-gathering.html

I've experienced a similar issue in the past, and this fixed it.

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