Media Center Shows No Signal
Sep 10, 2011
Using a Sagent SBT TVFM card connected to a Dish Network Dual Receiver as a 2nd TV connection of Antenna, channel 21. Receiver is an HDTV for 1st TV only, so taken from 2nd TV connection, not HDTV. Under XP, using Sagent's software, set to Antenna, channel 21, receive TV fine. However, under Windows 7 Media Center, set to same, receive a "No Signal" Error.However, if changing channel either one up or one down and back to 21, TV display comes on for about 10 seconds after which it goes back to no signal.Have updated the driver for this card to the latest Windows 7 driver, using Driver Agent.
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Dec 24, 2012
all started last tuesday when i swapped an ati radeon 4350 graphics card for nvidia Geforce 210 GPU,,i fully uninstalled all ATI drivers,switched off,,installed nvidia card,,restarted and installed new drivers,things looked fine until i opened WMC,,it was in 4:3 resolution and not 16:9 (the shape of the player,not the program output resolution) and it would not change shape,even though i had been through the setup and changed to 16:9,so i ignored this problem and went on to the tv channel setup in WMC,,it wouldn't find my tuner though (REALTEK 2832U,,usb freeview tuner).After many failed attempts to find the tuner,i gave up,uninstalled nvidia and reinstalled ATI,again,no problems with swapping cards over,but WMC will not work.
Heres what ive tried upto now to get WMC working again:many times trying the standard retuning in WMC,checked outside aerial on a freeview box,works fine,so the aerial is fine,from my outside aerial,i have 4 coaxial extension cables pushed together to reach from front room aerial point to back room where comp is,checked each cable by only using 3 cables,making sure that i have swapped eachcable,meaning i have run a signal using different combinations of cables,so i know that an individual cable isnt at fault,installed blazedtv program from the disk that came with the tuner,which finds upto 75 channels,but all pictures are badly broken up (mainly green and red blocks),with virtually no audio,,,i can hear something,but cant make any sounds out,also,no tv information (tv name etc) is available,just numbers that mean nothing to me,hilst writing this,a search on WMC has returned 14 channels,none of which are playable,only black screen if i press play,time bar is visible,but nothing happens,as this only happened during a hardware change,im fully confident that my signal is perfect,had great picture for 2 years with this setup and although i have had problems with WMC before,any problems have always been resolveable,h yes,,i've also reinstalled windows 7 as a last resort,but with no effect.
i've tried give as much info as possible,but feel free to ask for any more info,,im reasonably computer literate so am open to trying anything,,,thx for reading.p.s,,,i also have 2,,10 metre lengths of coax extension cable,but have never got them to work,which is why i use the 4 extension cable setupp.p.s,,,checked in device manager and the realtek tuner is showing under 'sound,video and game controllersand drivers are up to date.
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I have two computers. One a year old and one brand new. Both are running Windows 7 64 bit and both are running the exact same version of Windows Media Center. On my old computer I have my Windows Media Center TV configured for channel 3 and the cable attached to my internal TV Tuner card. Then, to access different channels I simply use the remote controller that came with my cable company set top box. Never any problems.Now, I am trying for three days to have Windows Media Center set up the TV stations on my new computer. The device manager is finding the TV Tuner Card that I installed. All the drivers are up to date. I can use WinTV to find and play channels so I know there is signal coming from the cable...the same cable that feeds my old computer...I simply unhooked it and attached it to my new computer. So, it's driving me crazy that each time I try to scan for channels I wait for 10 minutes each time only to get a message at the end saying "no tv stations found" or something like that.
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I have two computers. One a year old and one brand new. Both are running Windows 7 64 bit and both are running the exact same version of Windows Media Center. On my old computer I have my Windows Media Center TV configured for channel 3 and the cable attached to my internal TV Tuner card. Then, to access different channels I simply use the remote controller that came with my cable company set top box. Never any problems. Now, I am trying for three days to have Windows Media Center set up the TV stations on my new computer.
The device manager is finding the TV Tuner Card that I installed. All the drivers are up to date. I can use WinTV to find and play channels so I know there is signal coming from the cable...the same cable that feeds my old computer...I simply unhooked it and attached it to my new computer. So, it's driving me crazy that each time I try to scan for channels I wait for 10 minutes each time only to get a message at the end saying "no tv stations found" or something like that. What could I possible be doing wrong since everything is the same between the old and the new computer?
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