Problem with Pinnacle PCTV-Stereo

[puttu]

My problem is a bit long (really sorry). I have two identical systems with the same motherboard (Asus A7V8X-MX SE) and two identical Pinnacle PCTV-Stereo TV-Tuner Cards (My brother uses one system).

Everything worked well for some days. Then suddenly the TV-Tuner of my Bro's PC stopped working (nothing comes when the appliaction is opened. Just a blank screen). I thought it was a problem with the Tuner and left it like that.

Then recently I faced the same problem with my Tuner also. So I though of trying out both the cards on my friends PC. They word perfectly fine on my friends PC.

But the things is my PCI-Slots are also not to blame. Cause when I use the same slots for my Internal-Dialup Modem or my PCI-Sound Card, both of them work fine on both the motherboards.

So its not a problem with either the Tv-Tuner or the PCI-slots, but a sudden problem with "compatiblity"

When I run the PCTV diagnostic test, it runs well upto the last step where it says

"The device test failed. Probably no interrupt was assigned to the PCTV, or the interrupt in question is being used by another hardware device.
Please use the Device Manager to review the configuration of your system and resolve this conflict"

I'm sure its not a problem with the driver cause Its the same problem when I run in Linux also (I use mPlayer there).

This has happened with two cards and two motherboards, both identical.

Please help me....

[Sourabh]

It's a driver issue mostly. Did you uninstall the card entirely and loaded it again? Moreover, do you have the Windows XP SP2 patch for the PCTV Stereo. If not, in the device manager, it shows a driver problem. Sometimes, these tv tuner cards, do go blank. All I need to do is, uninstall and reinstall.

[puttu]

No, I'm sure its not a driver problem. If it was the PCTV-Assistant that comes with the card would have given a driver error. All it says is that an IRQ has not been assinged.... Device manager doesn't show any errors. It just says that the hardware's working fine...(Anyway I'm not running SP2, I'm still on SP1)

I tried the card on the other two PCI slots and still there's no improvement... I'm facing the same problem in linux also. I didn't make any changes to either the hardware or the software. It suddenly happened one day...

[Sourabh]

Generally, using a different PCI slot or re-installing does the trick. But, at your end, it's not helping. What do you mean by, 'I'm not running SP2, I'm still on SP2?'

[puttu]

hey...sorry I meant SP1....I'm on SP1 and not SP2