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<blockquote data-quote="Mike_S" data-source="post: 846795" data-attributes="member: 27632">I have built a HTPC, a couple of years ago,. It has a Hauppauge Nova 500 Satellite tuner card installed in a PCI expansion slot that works fine. I used to have a DVB-T tuner card installed on the PCI-E expansion slot but recently it started to play up a bit. I decided to buy the new dual Blackgold DVB-T2 DVB-S2 tuner card and plugged in the terrestriual cable but the picture quality was just as bad. I thought it was the aerial or booster that was at fault. I decided to have this checked out and, going the whole hog, have a second cable from a spare LNB on the satellite.&nbsp;Well, guess what, the picture quality through the Blackgold satellite was poor as well. I therefore have to conclude that it is probably the PCI-E expansion slot that is at fault. The problem is, I don't know what to do about it. Is there a way to test that the slot is working ok or that the Blackgold tuner card is really at fault?&nbsp;The aerial man checked the signals and all appear ok. I have installed the latest driver for the BlackGold. I notice from the logs that there are a huge number of Continuity Errors.&nbsp;Any suggestions would be grately appreciated.&nbsp;I attach some logs that might help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike_S, post: 846795, member: 27632"] I have built a HTPC, a couple of years ago,. It has a Hauppauge Nova 500 Satellite tuner card installed in a PCI expansion slot that works fine. I used to have a DVB-T tuner card installed on the PCI-E expansion slot but recently it started to play up a bit. I decided to buy the new dual Blackgold DVB-T2 DVB-S2 tuner card and plugged in the terrestriual cable but the picture quality was just as bad. I thought it was the aerial or booster that was at fault. I decided to have this checked out and, going the whole hog, have a second cable from a spare LNB on the satellite. Well, guess what, the picture quality through the Blackgold satellite was poor as well. I therefore have to conclude that it is probably the PCI-E expansion slot that is at fault. The problem is, I don't know what to do about it. Is there a way to test that the slot is working ok or that the Blackgold tuner card is really at fault? The aerial man checked the signals and all appear ok. I have installed the latest driver for the BlackGold. I notice from the logs that there are a huge number of Continuity Errors. Any suggestions would be grately appreciated. I attach some logs that might help. [/QUOTE]

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