Seated internal card with Phillips chipset, says xp/vista compatible I have XP with Media Center on a P4 Dimension E510 by Dell with, which only has 2 PCI slots on the motherboard. It came with a phone/fax/56k moden in one (which is unneccessary) and 1 empty. I have a 1394 card in that slot for the firewire card. I removed the fax card and put the PCI card in. I can't remember if I removed the fax card, rebooted, shut down then plugged in the PC TV PCI card, come to think of it...should I try that first? uninstall the TV card software, shut down and pull the card out, reboot so the computer "sees" the modem was removed, then shut down and plug the TV card back in, re-install and try it?? Do I need to remove the fax and modem software, or can I just disable it in the hardware manager?
You don't need to do anything with the modem at all, other than remove it. Uninstalling the modem drivers will not affect theTV Tuner. Removing the card will disable the feature automatically, so dont worry about that.
As far as the TV tuner is concerned, just pop it in, and install the software. If the software is giving you troubles, try going to manufacturer's website and search for drivers.
Almost all of the steps you suggested are unnecessary as xp will not need the modem drivers removed but you dont rally explain what the issue is did it fail altogether or did xp see it and request drivers?
ill guess you had the driver request but you had a no function
1 make sure you have the latest drivers for your tv card and be aware windows media centre can be picky on its hardware make sure its media centre 2005 compatible you can find that out from microsofts website but also make sure you follow every step in the documentation i have had problems with tv cards myself
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Alrighty...I skipped the entire process mentioned in the last post. I did go looking for the updated drivers and thought I had them...However, I just searched again using the name Philips SAA 7130 and one of the hits was selling this product. It stated that THIS is just an analog tuner and doesn't unscramble the digital signal. It mentioned needing a digital Tuner box in addition to this card to actually get TV. Seriously?? I thought that may have been suspect before, so I took the digital converter box off my TV and connected it between the antenna and this TV card and scanned it. I did get 3-4 channels to come in, but they were all high on "dial" so to speak, and all foreign language channels. None of the basic networks would come in clearly, even messing with the fine tune dial in the My TV software. It does have several "antenna" settings like NTSC, PAL, but it opens and scans on "default" whatever that is...does this matter? And the documentation didn't say ANYTHING...not even the instructions in the user manual!!
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