[Platup]

I was able to get dual HD tuners working briefly last night in MCE.


I have a Fusion 2, a Fusion 3 and an Avermedia M150.


Everything started working right after I installed it and ran thru the Digital Signal setup again in MCE, it only said 1 analog and a digital tuner was detected, but I was able to record a HD show and watch another, view analog etc... I had not rebooted at this point.


Now, here's the problem. On reboot it gets to the Starting XP screen and then reboots. It will continue this loop until I tell it to use the last known good config. I go through installing the drivers again and this time only one card works. Reboot, same thing, back to last known good config. I've tried swapping slots, uninstalling both fusion cards, etc... No matter what I try after both sets of drivers are installed (everything looks fine in hardware manager) XP reboots at the Starting XP screen. After swapping slots several times, and uninstalling and reinstalling, I'm now at a point where neither Fusion card is detected by MCE. The analog tuner works fine.


Since it never makes it into MCE (dies at starting XP) I don't think this is an MCE issue. Any ideas? Does anyone have a Fusion 2 and 3 working in the same system?

 

[Platup]

Has anyone else tried dual Fusions?


I borrowed a Fusion 3 from a friend today and have the exact same issue. With 2 fusion 3's installed (exact same model) or with a Fusion 2 and Fusion 3 installed, after the drivers are installed and I reboot the PC, the PC will reboot at the "Starting XP" screen.

I've tried swapping slots, setting IRQs, etc... I don't think this is the problem since I can go into MCE right after installing the drivers and everything works as it should, but after a reboot it will never make it back to windows. It has to be something windows is doing to the cards or drivers at startup. Any ideas?

 

[orbitzboy]

I believe the T-connector driver can't be shared between two cards.


I had this issue with a fusion card & a holo3d card for a while - would work when installed, then would fail at reboot.


Eventually I made a copy of the problem file, hand-edited a new driver file for the holo3d, and everything worked.

 

[Platup]

Any hint's on how you hand edited the file? And what you edited?

 

[Maynard]

I read on some thread that the fusion drivers are not able to run multiple instances, and that was the reason they were not certified by MS. Not sure if this is true or not - but thought i'd pass it along...

-maynard

 

[Platup]

I think you're correct Maynard, it's looking like the drivers won't allow multiple instances.


orbitzboy or anyone,

Any ideas on how to find the problem file... and what to do with it when I find it?