Winfast PxDVR3200 PCI E card problems

[blackjet]

Hello,

I have just upgraded my HTPC with a new motherboard and 2 new turners.
The problem I have is with the Winfast PxDVR3200 card.
It will not work in the PCI E 1x slot, but it does work in the PCI E slot.

My system specs are as below:

Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H
2 X 1gb of corsair VS 67 RAM
PCI Leadtek Winfast DTV1000S
Winfast PxDVR3200 PCI E
Dvico DVB-T Plus
Vista Home premium SP1

Can anyone give me a solution to to this problem. Do I need to change a bios setting or maybe do a bios upgrade.

Regards Blackjet

[arkay]

Originally Posted by blackjet

Hello,

I have just upgraded my HTPC with a new motherboard and 2 new turners.

No wonder it's not working. You should use tuners in your machine. Turners are always flakey!

The problem I have is with the Winfast PxDVR3200 card.
It will not work in the PCI E 1x slot, but it does work in the PCI E slot.

Seriously though I don't know why it wouldn't work in a 1x slot and does work in the 16x. I assume you want to free the 16x for an external video card?

It certainly wouldn't hurt to update to a current bios version. That may fix it.

Only other thing I can think of is to try the different modes for the onboard video. That will likely effect what it expects to find in the x16 slot which might make the x1 slot function differently. It doesn't make a lot of sense but it's something to try. There might also be something in the bios about pci-e modes. Don't know. I'm not familiar with that board.

Cheers,

Arkay.

[blackjet]

Originally Posted by arkay

No wonder it's not working. You should use tuners in your machine. Turners are always flakey!

HeHe ,those turners obviously are no good.
But the tuners work fine were they are at the moment.

I will upgrade my bios and see if it makes any difference.

thanks for the reply
regards
Blackjet

[vlad]

Could you try to remove all tuners, but PCI-e ?
Not many people are using so dissimilar tuners at the same time. Should not be a problem, I would look at bios on PCI bus resources allocation and make sure it is set on auto. Bios upgrade could help, but then, it should really work without it.

[itr2401]

Interesting ..

The only time I have seen a similar issue (non TV Tuners etc) was that the motherboard was not supplying enough power as what the card required via the PCIe x1 slot. The x16 slot was able to provide that power consumption which is why it worked.

In my case it was a 3ware raid card in an x8 slot and only would work in an x16 slot - even though it was an x4 PCIe designed card. Ended up returning that and getting a PCI-X version of the card to solve my issue.

I did a quick search for the power requirements for the TV card and didnt find much, nor did I find anything about the power output for that motherboard for each of the slots. I would assume that they should be conforming to the PCIe power provisioning standard.

Perhaps a bios upgrade may help, but I doubt it.

What power supply do you have in the system at the moment? Are you able to check what your current draw rate is to see if you actually have enough power for all those devices? It could be something as simple as that as I am sure that Gigabyte wouldnt release a board which doesnt meet specific standards (well .. you never know for sure) ..

[blackjet]

Originally Posted by itr2401

Interesting ..

The only time I have seen a similar issue (non TV Tuners etc) was that the motherboard was not supplying enough power as what the card required via the PCIe x1 slot. The x16 slot was able to provide that power consumption which is why it worked.

In my case it was a 3ware raid card in an x8 slot and only would work in an x16 slot - even though it was an x4 PCIe designed card. Ended up returning that and getting a PCI-X version of the card to solve my issue.

I did a quick search for the power requirements for the TV card and didnt find much, nor did I find anything about the power output for that motherboard for each of the slots. I would assume that they should be conforming to the PCIe power provisioning standard.

Perhaps a bios upgrade may help, but I doubt it.

What power supply do you have in the system at the moment? Are you able to check what your current draw rate is to see if you actually have enough power for all those devices? It could be something as simple as that as I am sure that Gigabyte wouldnt release a board which doesnt meet specific standards (well .. you never know for sure) ..

Thankyou for the replies,

I checked my bios, it is up to date.
The problem happened with only the PCI-E card in on its own aswell.
itr2401 I was wondering if the board was not supplying enough power
My ower supply is a 350W "SilverStone" ST350, this may be my problem.
But I used this PSU on my previous system which was running 3 dvbt cards and a ATI PCI-E 1050x video card.
How do i check the PSU draw rate?

Also I'm curious but the Winfast PxDTV2300H PCI-E info never states its a PCI-E x1 card.
I just assume it is because of the design. But I suppose that it is.

Regards Blackjet