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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 715339" data-attributes="member: 82144"><p>Hi Bucky</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the comment. I spent some time looking through the support section of the BG website "last night" and discovered the issue that the debug drivers are meant to address - tuners disappearing <strong>from WMC 7</strong>. I guessed immediately at that point that the drivers wouldn't help me even if they are suitable for the BGT3540...</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I might still try and give the drivers a run. FYI, the Blackgold drivers actually tend to support a bundle of tuner, demodulator and PCIe bridge chips internally because they were initially developed by the PCIe bridge chipset manufacturer (NXP/Philips) for their reference designs. Reference designs are meant to be flexible enough to allow OEMs like BG to choose from a range of chips for their products. For example, the BGT3540 drivers support the SAA716x family of PCIe chipsets (7160, 7162, 7164) with a range of Zarlink, NXP/Philips, and possibly Fujitsu demodulator and tuner chips. I've also seen code references in that driver to the SAA723x family of chipsets (2nd generation of the SAA716x family), which are used with the BGT3620, BGT3590 and BGT3595. It wouldn't surprise me if the SAA723x driver was developed "on top" of the SAA716x driver, hence it may support the SAA716x family even though BG don't say so...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 715339, member: 82144"] Hi Bucky Thanks for the comment. I spent some time looking through the support section of the BG website "last night" and discovered the issue that the debug drivers are meant to address - tuners disappearing [B]from WMC 7[/B]. I guessed immediately at that point that the drivers wouldn't help me even if they are suitable for the BGT3540... Having said that, I might still try and give the drivers a run. FYI, the Blackgold drivers actually tend to support a bundle of tuner, demodulator and PCIe bridge chips internally because they were initially developed by the PCIe bridge chipset manufacturer (NXP/Philips) for their reference designs. Reference designs are meant to be flexible enough to allow OEMs like BG to choose from a range of chips for their products. For example, the BGT3540 drivers support the SAA716x family of PCIe chipsets (7160, 7162, 7164) with a range of Zarlink, NXP/Philips, and possibly Fujitsu demodulator and tuner chips. I've also seen code references in that driver to the SAA723x family of chipsets (2nd generation of the SAA716x family), which are used with the BGT3620, BGT3590 and BGT3595. It wouldn't surprise me if the SAA723x driver was developed "on top" of the SAA716x driver, hence it may support the SAA716x family even though BG don't say so... [/QUOTE]
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