Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT TV card not working with Windows Media Center

[christiani]

Hey guys.
I've just installed Windows Xp SP3 (Media Center Edition), as I have grown tired of Vista taking up so many system resources unneccessarily.
Everything seems to be working fine, apart from my TV card. This care seems temperamental when it comes to what programs it likes and dislikes.

When running Vista, it worked fine with Windows Media Center, but only when one of the tuners (it's a dual tuner card) was disabled.

In XP, the card works fine and finds all channels with the supplied software 'TerraTec Home Cinema'. However, this is a ****e program, and I want to use Media Center. When I go to setting and try to set up the card, all it says is 'The tuner hardware is either malfunctioning or not installed. Please ensure that both the tuner hardware and a valid tuner hardware driver are installed'.

I have the latest driver installed for the card, and honestly don't know what to do next, as device manager says it's working perfectly, and I dont know if there's an option to disable one of the tuners to see if it will see it when only one of the tuners is active.

Any ideas?

[Agent]

Are you using the BDA drivers?

I also have a lot of expensive with this card. The chip / card is excellent, but the drivers from Terratec are shocking.
I hacked a driver pack together from the E700 (same card from a different manufacturer) to work with the DT2400i. All the signal dropouts I had instantly vanished, and every other issue.

I'll try and dig them out next week if you feel they will be of use to you.

[christiani]

Hey bud. Thanks for the swift reply.
I downloaded the drivers labelled... "Cinergy_2400i_DT_Drv_1.1.0.284_XP_Vista_7".
Are these ok?

[Agent]

http://ftp.terratec.de/Receiver/Cine...XP_Vista_7.exe

You need those - they are BDA. Looks like you have the correct ones

[christiani]

ok lol

[christiani]

http://ftp.terratec.de/Receiver/Cine...XP_Vista_7.exe

You need those - they are BDA. Looks like you have the correct ones

hmm, very odd then.
Any more ideas? :s I'm totally stumped. I've never know a piece of hardware to work with one program, but not even register as being attached to the computer with another! lol

[this_is_gav]

For the record, I know the card works fine in XP MCE 2005. I had one in my system for a while, but it occasionally gave a BSOD (in both XP MCE and Vista x64) when the system was shutting down, so I swapped it for a Hauppauge Nova-T 500. When actually in Windows I can't recall having an issue.

Have you tried some older drivers? I've packaged together the ones I still have one my system here. I believe the beta ones there were working fine before the card was replaced. I guess these are still available on the FTP site too.

[christiani]

For the record, I know the card works fine in XP MCE 2005. I had one in my system for a while, but it occasionally gave a BSOD (in both XP MCE and Vista x64) when the system was shutting down, so I swapped it for a Hauppauge Nova-T 500. When actually in Windows I can't recall having an issue.

Have you tried some older drivers? I've packaged together the ones I still have one my system here. I believe the beta ones there were working fine before the card was replaced. I guess these are still available on the FTP site too.

Thanks a lot for the info mate.
Windows Media Center has been upgraded with the rollup 2 update.
I don't actually know how to install older drivers to replace new drivers on XP. I uninstall the card in device manager, but then it automatically installs the drivers and doesn't give me an option to choose at any point.

[this_is_gav]

Don't bother uninstalling the card. Just go to update the drivers and point it at the older ones.

I had Roll-up 2, though can't remember if SP3 was out when the card was still in use. Still, it's very unlikely that SP3 has broken it.