Re: tv card not detected

On 05/16/2010 11:38 PM, felmon wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:16:42 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:


It sounds, from what you've posted, like the motherboard is toast.

yes. a sad conclusion I am drawing.

Have you googled to see if this board either is a known problem,
or needs some obscure setting?

yeah, I've looked around and haven't found anything specific to this
board or much in general ('motherboard'+'pci problems').

have studied the BIOS settings religiously but no revelations.

I did want to try to put a Windows hard-drive in, see what Windows would
say, but the one I have is already 'grub-ified' so it won't boot. too
much trouble - especially since I pretty much trust what lspci and hwinfo
are saying.

Failing that, your options are to chalk it up to experience and buy
another board (and never darken that shop's door again), or insist they
take it back (which may end up reverting to option one, of course).

sad again but I think you are right.

meanwhile the tv card is happily pumping out pixels in the other machine.

Felmon



The mobo is not necessarily bad

Check your bios settings and see if the resources for the PCI slots are automatically assigned or manually assigned.

"auto" usually does the trick


btw: Did you try the device in another slot?

I've found that the slot closest to the video card can *sometimes* have problems
.

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