Satellite PC card a Pain in the arse

[redpigg]

I had on the last count four satellite PC cards

Hauppauge Win TV

Technisat Sky star 2

TwinHan

No Name Chinese

The first two have stopped working.
For the Twinhan, the computer won't recognise the driver.
The N/N Chinese locks the computer whenever I reboot.

I have tried them on different computers and different card slots all the computers running Windows XP.
The computers being mainly P4s with a gig of ram.
Hope however lives eternal and have recently purchase off
Ebay.Oz a USB version for thirty odd bucks.

I shall put some effort into my dreambox dm500, they seem
to be getting pretty cheap.
I am sure I paid several hundred dollars for it a few years back but have seen the Yanks selling a clone for sixty odd dollars.
Has the DM500 been superseded by something that is better
at decoding?

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[marginal]

Have you tried to update your BIOS lately?

[norbert_75fr]

hello try to wash the card...

witch no Pb and high density a lot of moisisure or mineral crsital can cause trouble.
Somme Sat died....
use wate or alcool, dont be afraid the water is used at the end of production.

Also hi impedance are sensitive.

N75