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<blockquote data-quote="mcraenz" data-source="post: 233895" data-attributes="member: 54136">I would recommend using the WDM driver+Setup4PC to check signal levels/align the dish. However I've had problems with swapping the drivers between BDA and WDM. Going from WDM to BDA seems straight forward but I've had issue going back the other way. E.g. I got the WDM driver to install again but device wouldn't work and the installation for the setup4PC util refused to find the device etc etc. I got messy! In the end I removed every reference to anything skystar/technisat/B2C2 from my registry, system32\drivers and windows\inf and re-installed; that fixed it. My advice (easy if you have 2 HDDs) is to just do a ghost image before you start mucking around, then you can do what you like get the dish all aligned etc then roll back to the clean system with BDA drivers knowing that singnal is fine.I've not found (and I have looked) any other signal meter utils that work with the BDA driver. I think the problem is actually with what the driver reports. I don't know why it doesn't work!? It seems like a pretty straight forward and reasonable feature.Something else I noticed when doing my dish alignment on the weekend is that the latest WDM driver+Setup4PC util doesn't seem to report signal strength! Only signal quality, I just aligned based on that.Was that measured with the WDM+UTIL? Did you do the dish install your self or was it a sky dish? Maybe it's just moved a bit or maybe you need to adjust the skew on the LNB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mcraenz, post: 233895, member: 54136"] I [I]would[/I] recommend using the WDM driver+Setup4PC to check signal levels/align the dish. However I've had problems with swapping the drivers between BDA and WDM. Going from WDM to BDA seems straight forward but I've had issue going back the other way. E.g. I got the WDM driver to install again but device wouldn't work and the installation for the setup4PC util refused to find the device etc etc. I got messy! In the end I removed every reference to anything skystar/technisat/B2C2 from my registry, system32\drivers and windows\inf and re-installed; that fixed it. My advice (easy if you have 2 HDDs) is to just do a ghost image before you start mucking around, then you can do what you like get the dish all aligned etc then roll back to the clean system with BDA drivers knowing that singnal [I]is[/I] fine. I've not found (and I have looked) any other signal meter utils that work with the BDA driver. I think the problem is actually with what the driver reports. I don't know why it doesn't work!? It seems like a pretty straight forward and reasonable feature. Something else I noticed when doing my dish alignment on the weekend is that the latest [B]WDM[/B] driver+Setup4PC util doesn't seem to report signal strength! Only signal quality, I just aligned based on that. Was that measured with the WDM+UTIL? Did you do the dish install your self or was it a sky dish? Maybe it's just moved a bit or maybe you need to adjust the skew on the LNB. [/QUOTE]

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