UnOfficial MyHD MDP-120/DVI card thread - part 2 - Page 138

Will I be able to use the pass-thru method by getting a VGA>DVI adaptor and then connect the DVI to one of my DVI connection on my graphic card. The question is will the DVI connection on my graphic card work as an input? The reason for all of this is I have a new projector and am trying to not run an additional VGA cable if possible.

The DVI connector on your graphics card is an output, not an input, so the answer to your question is "no". But you can go in the other direction, passing the video card's DVI output via the MyHD DVI daughterboard to your projector, since the daughterboard has one DVI input and one DVI output, the latter of which is alternatively connected by the MyHD app to the MyHD DVI input or the MyHD HD output.

It would be easier and probably cheaper to just run a VGA cable being I do not have the DVI daughterboard.

Yes, VGA would be just as easy and less expensive if you don't need DVI for the new projector. I misunderstood your requirements it seems.

Terry's suggestion works equally well with VGA. Use the DVI-VGA adapter on the video card. Then you connect the proper gender plug on the MyHD Blue Dongle to that adpater. Then connect your projector to the other plug on the Blue Dongle. Now you have MyHD VGA Passthru from a video card with only DVI-I ports.

- Mike

I'm tired of searching for an answer so I'll post what may be an old question ...

I lose the signal on my MyHD MDP-120 some times (get "no signal" message in ant mode) after deleting a recording through the on-screen GUI. I land up having to reboot my XP box to get a signal again because exiting and restarting the MyHD SW (1.66.1E) doesn't clear up the problem. Is this a known problem and is there a fix other than rebooting? I'm not sure why this only happens on occasion so I'm not sure how to prevent it.

xortam--

AFAICR, that's a new problem. Did you try reinstalling the device driver? I don't know what else to suggest, since I have no idea what's happening.

Thanks for the response TP. This has been a problem on this box for quite some time. I'll try a driver reinstall and see if it goes away. It's a sporadic problem so it may take some time to confirm if that fixes it or not. Thanks again.

OK, so I don't know if this thread is even active anymore, but I am at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a try. I've got a MyHD-120 with the DVI daughter card, and I can't seem to get video from the DVI output to show up on my Vizio HDTV. I have the DVI output enabled, and I'm set up to use dual monitors. That is, the Vizio's RGB PC input is showing the overlay and is used to initialize the program, then I want to switch over to the Vizion's second HDMI input or main HDTV viewing. When I connect the DVI out (from the daughter) to my flat panel computer monitor, all is beautiful, so I know the card/daughter are OK. I've tried various display resolutions, but had no luck. Any ideas?

I uninstalled the driver but now I don't see the 1.66.1 driver install package at the DC site, only the whole SW package. The 1.66.1 installation SW doesn't give the option of only installing the driver. I've got an old copy of the 1.66.01 driver setup SW. Do I use that or should I dig up the latest drivers out of my FS from the 1.66.1 install? It's been too long since this was discussed so I don't remember how these were packaged.

This could be the +5V pin issue. Some displays require a +5V signal that is only provided by the loopback cable. Are you using the loopback cable?

This is covered in B.13 of the Meta FAQ. You might also want to check out a couple posts starting here.

If you are not using the loopback cable and have an unused DVI port on your video card (many cards have two), connect the loopback cable between the unused DVI port on your video card and the DVI-in port on the MyHD DVI card.

-Dave

I think that the link to MIT in the MetaFAQ should still work to get it.

But it's not working right now, so I'm attaching the WinXP portion of the latest driver to this post temporarily. (The whole package is too big to attach)

 

MyHD_DRV_v1.66.1.1_win_xp.zip 256.26171875k . file

Got it, thanks. I'll check it out now ...

Everything comes up o.k. so we'll see if I run into this problem again in the weeks ahead. I noticed the MyIRC_USB drivers didn't alter from what I had installed so I didn't change anything there. Thanks for your help.

Thanks so much, that did the trick ... had read those earlier threads but didn't think they were "in play."

Just wanted to post an issue I had with the new net framework from Microsoft. I mistakenly had my my computer doing automatic updates, and it updated net framework from 2.0 to 3.0 and then 3.5. I did not notice but it broke Myhd130 when it upgraded. I started getting hangs, slow downs, and could not control the tuner software at all. I would have to reboot to end the hang up and I would get an error stating .net broadcast window 2.0 is not responding, click to shut down. Then when I closed the broadcast window myhd would pop up. After some research, I found out that this is a driver incompatability with possibly net framework, or ati drivers. I had not upgraded my ati drivers for over 2 years, and the new net framework had just been upgraded. I rolled back to 2.0 and it has been working fine since. Just wanted to share. Thanks, Troy.

Troy--

Yes, the patch guru at Windows Secrets says that the .net 3.5 update should not be pushed to folks as a "critical" item (but obviously it is being so pushed). Furthermore, she suspects that it will break a lot of things and recommends passing on it for the time being.

I have had what may be the same problem. No signal detected. Sometimes it's a certain station, sometimes all stations. A reboot fixes it. Haven't had it lately. The card is the MyHD 120. I'm running XP now, but I think I also had the problem in Windows 2000. I'm unaware of the problem having been caused by deleting a recording, however. I have no idea what causes it or precipitates it.

I recently did a fresh install of XP Pro on my alternate OS partition and am using it as my daily install. I updated to all of .NET frameworks, including 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 and the 3.5 hotfix and am unaware of extra problems in MyHD 120 with daughterboard. My video card (ati drivers were mentioned) is nvidia, BFG 6600 GTOC AGP. I do have the MyHD 130 card and daughterboard but haven't gotten around to installing it.

I only have the problem when switching back to ant mode after deleting a recording in file mode. The "no signal" message is on all channels.

It could easily be driver/hardware and net framework incompatability. This is an old computer, running out dated hardware, but was working great until the software updates. That is one of my favorite things about this card. It works great in my old pc's, and records my tv for me automatically. Thanks, Troy

I like the fact that the card seems to leave the CPU alone for the most part and does its processing in the onboard chip(s). I do find that I have less glitches when I have less apps/processes/??? running. If I have a dropout (audio or video+audio) I often rewind 10 seconds to see if it's repeated. If it is repeated, I know there's nothing I can do about it at that point and that it's in the recording. However, if it is not repeated I know that some other process(es) is/are messing with the MyHD playback and shutting down competing code is apt to clean up my playback. I use the freebie EndItAll to close down all the processes/programs that look to me dispensable and playback is usually much better thereafter. Of course, this is a PITA, but don't know how else to deal with this syndrome. The machine is reasonably powerful:

Gigabyte GA-K8n Pro motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 754, FSB1600, E6, Venice, 90nm, L2-512KB)
BFG 6600 GTOC AGP video card
2 sticks Crucial 1GB PC3200 400MHz 184-pin DDR Memory - CT12864Z40B, 2 GB total
Corsair vx550w PSU
USR Model 2977 PCI hardware modem
Hercules GTXP soundcard PCI with breakout box
MyHD HDTV 120 HDTV PCI
MyHD HDTV 120 HDTV daughterboard

Windows XP SP3

I've got several HDs in the machine, but am currently recording (I have been timeshifting lately, exclusively) to my one SATA drive. The MB is pretty old and the SATA controller an early generation. I used to (and still do occasionally) have a vexing problem wherein I experience a split second glitch every 20 seconds when the changeover occurs from one 20 second timeshift file to the next, but lately it happens only rarely. I have no idea what precipitates it. The glitches are certainly in the recorded files, not the playback, so when it happens there's nothing I can do about it but tolerate it or discarding the recording as unwatchable.

Seems familiar. Perhaps a workaround is to switch to antenna mode without deleting the files and clean up the files later. Many's the time I've had to reboot my machine to get MyHD functioning properly.

That's pretty good evidence of a botched-up Windows configuration, I'd say. I can't recall having to restart Windows to "fix" MyHD's performance.

I'd definitely get rid of that buggy SATA controller.

That controller's built into the mobo, Gigabyte GA-K8n Pro motherboard. I don't know that I have an empty PCI slot for another controller. Sometimes it seems to work fine, most of the time actually.

Botched up Windows config, yeah, probably. Right now it's acting better than my last one ever did, at least in terms of Windows shutdown and suspend. Nothing weird so far. I should Ghost again before the gremlins show up. Actually the funny thing is last time I went to all kinds of trouble to get the latest drivers installed. This time, I barely tried and things seem to work OK anyway.

I have gotten one jackhammer Windows lockup when viewing a MyHD recording (undoubtedly a timeshift), right after the install, but none since. Those require an immediate reset.

I got a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate as a doorprize at a computer user group a couple of days ago, but neither of my PCs can run Vista (well, my laptop can, but I don't know if I want to mess with installing Vista on the laptop. Lenovo's come loaded with a ton of stuff preconfigured and I think I'd lose all that if I "upgrade"). I'd have to put together another system based on another mobo. Does MyHD play nice with Vista?

Yeah, I should have said that I never have a problem deleting recordings on the desktop in ant mode so I just need to stick with that routine. I also run into problems getting all of the segments deleted via the TV GUI. I make sure I'm playing a different event than the one I want to delete but it seems to still hold onto the file handle for one of the "to be deleted" segments and it doesn't get deleted. I can't recall but it may be only the first segment of a multi-segment recording that doesn't get deleted. I need to shut down MyHD and restart it to get it to free up the handle so I can delete the segment (even through Explorer).

I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe MB . The problem recordings have been on both a SATA attached disk and a USB HDD.

I've got some weirdness going on with MyHD 120+daughterboard. I am getting a dialog when shutting down MyHD:

MyHD_Eng

Database already exists


Also, I have MyHD configured to show both the channel name and channel number. Stations are showing the actual channel number instead of the virtual channel number all of a sudden. I always had the virtual channel number. Thus, KTVU used to show Channel 2 and now it shows D56-1. Argh. What's up with these anomalies?

Edit: OK, I found the checkbox "Enable virtual channel mode". However, I never unchecked that. Never. I'm still getting Database already exists error. I tried the steps in an old thread I have saved that are supposed to eliminate the error, but they failed to do so.

Edit2: Ah, I didn't follow the instructions carefully enough. Doing it again has stopped the behavior:

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All you have to do is go to the C:\\Program Files\\MyHD folder.
Rename epg.mdb to epg.mdb.old
Start the MyHD app. It will tell you that you need to run setup again. OK and then exit the app.
Start MyHD again and you should not get the message. Exit the app.
Go into C:\\Program Files\\MyHD again and rename
__temp__.mdb to epg.mdb
Now when I exit MyHD I don't get that popup and it seems to be working fine now.

Of course my epg.mdb file went from being 8.97MB to 102k, so I dunno what I may have done. I figure if I notice a problem I will just delete the latest epg.mdb file and rename that old one back.
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I had to go back and turn on Virtual channel display, and now I'm evidently OK again. Dunno why all this happened...

Is there a downside to _fixing_ the problem this way?

My guess is that a more permanent way to fix it is to get rid of that flakey 1st-gen Silicon Image SATA controller.

Maybe. Only the data is going to the SATA drive. The app and OS are running on separate IDE drives.

I think maybe a bigger improvement would be ditching my Hercules GTXP soundcard/breakout box. I'm loving the box but I hate the lipsynch issues I continually have to deal with (hit pause, hit play, hit pause, hit play,... by the 3rd or 4th time synch is pretty much reestablished). You said you think it's the soundcard driver, and I don't know what else to think. I guess most people don't have the problem.

I have a 2nd MyHD card + daughterboard (actually I'm going to put the 130 in my main box). I'm going to put the 2nd card in a 2nd box, which will have either a Santa Cruz or I can run the onboard sound. Will see if I have lip synch issues with that.

I'd appreciate any recommendations for a mobo that plays nice with MyHD...

Hey guys,

I have a 120 and the original serial MyIRC.

On my new build, I have an issue with the remote losing functions. The tray icon will stop showing the green light when the remote buttons are pressed. If I go to Device Mgr and remove the COM port, reboot....It will work again for a while.

I had originally thought this was due to my using a USB/Serial device. After trying another brand of these with the same result, I went through the hassle of wiring the motherboards com port header. Now I don't know what else to try. I also tried all the available IRQ/Address locations from the BIOS. Windows Firewall has MyIRC as unblocked.

With both the USB/Serial devices and the MB Com port, Device Mgr automatically uses COM 3. I have to go in and change it to COM 1 everytime I reinstall it. When I check, it says no conflicts, but there seems to be some resource that is stepping on the port?

Anyone know if there is a way for me to change the MyIRC app to work on another port, like COM 3?

This is happening on my two XP Pro partitions. It recently occurred on my Vista Ultimate partition after updating my ATI display driver.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA MA 780G.

Any help would be very welcome....Thanks!