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pc tv card problem
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i have a digital tv card in my pc, but it stalls all the time. its really annoying because it means i cannot watch any tv. i mean it stalls every few seconds. its not using up too much RAM nor is the signal screwed up, because the ariel cable works fine with an ordinary tv. does anyone know what could be wrong with it?
cheers.
cheers.
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or IRQ problem or hard drives not set to DMA mode
what is IRQ?
whats DMA mode? how would i go about setting the HD to DMA mode?
Or are you actually using a PC now?
PCI or USB?
USB
Oh I have USb one it works well on my 500 MHz Pentium 3 laptop but stutters on my much more powerful AMD Athlon 1800 XP - go figure
You bloody edited that! Sod!
USB 1.1 or 2? If the tuner works correctly on other machines, then maybe you need more bandwidth than 1.1 supports?
its a USB 2 port
Come on, you're techie enough to know this :P.
Does it work on the mac?
you mean me?
if so I meant reduce the colours on your grahics card .. on my PC my USB TV card stutters when it's on 36bit colour by when the PC is running at 24bit it's fine.
thanks you guys for your help.
but i thought it needed a driver update. and doing that it worked okay for a while. anyway... i've given up using it now since its gotten me so annoyed! - it just 'aint worth it.
thanks tho.