Hey all! I recently upgraded my HTPC so that I could do HD OTA recording. I was thinking about buying the PCI Express 164 but the high price shyed me away from it and in to the arms of two DTA-150's. The picture quality looks amazing but I can not get both of them to work at the same time.
If two are installed it always faults to the lowest PCI card (in my system they're installed in PCI slots 2 and 3. I've tried switching them around but whichever one is installed in the lowest PCI slot is the one it uses.
I've searched and found some people that had problems with newer drivers. Here is what I have done:
I installed the cards in to my Vista RC2 box. It detected them and automatically downloaded the drivers. These were .7. MCE Setup detects both cards but will not use both or the second one installed. I've tried, on the Vista box, .7, .12 and .0. I've heard that .7 and .12 have problems reporting signal strength but this is not my problem. It picks up signal on the one card but does not on the other and if the cable is plugged in to the lower card MCE says no signal found. I also pulled my PVR-500 since Vista will let you run without a analog hardware decoder card and came across the same problem.
Also, I installed a fresh copy of MCE 2k5 thinking maybe it was a Vista problem. On a fresh install it's the exact same problem. In this case I started with the .0 drivers and upgraded after it did not work to .12. Same problem.
Each card works in all the different PCI slots as long as the other card is not plugged in. In a dual tuner setup, I can turn off the computer and switch the cards around and still have the same problem, except now the card that was in the lower slot and now in the upper slot works and the one that was in the upper slot moved down to the lower does not.
This is a very frustrating problem so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
If two are installed it always faults to the lowest PCI card (in my system they're installed in PCI slots 2 and 3. I've tried switching them around but whichever one is installed in the lowest PCI slot is the one it uses.
I've searched and found some people that had problems with newer drivers. Here is what I have done:
I installed the cards in to my Vista RC2 box. It detected them and automatically downloaded the drivers. These were .7. MCE Setup detects both cards but will not use both or the second one installed. I've tried, on the Vista box, .7, .12 and .0. I've heard that .7 and .12 have problems reporting signal strength but this is not my problem. It picks up signal on the one card but does not on the other and if the cable is plugged in to the lower card MCE says no signal found. I also pulled my PVR-500 since Vista will let you run without a analog hardware decoder card and came across the same problem.
Also, I installed a fresh copy of MCE 2k5 thinking maybe it was a Vista problem. On a fresh install it's the exact same problem. In this case I started with the .0 drivers and upgraded after it did not work to .12. Same problem.
Each card works in all the different PCI slots as long as the other card is not plugged in. In a dual tuner setup, I can turn off the computer and switch the cards around and still have the same problem, except now the card that was in the lower slot and now in the upper slot works and the one that was in the upper slot moved down to the lower does not.
This is a very frustrating problem so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
