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<blockquote data-quote="globaldonkey" data-source="post: 1011727" data-attributes="member: 49844">Just bought one of these tuners myself, as I wanted to do some streaming to ipads around the house using MP Extended and needed some extra tuners. Had similar sorts of problems, and it drove me bonkers for about a week. They are a lot more sensitive to &quot;hot&quot; signals it seems. I successfully tuned everything with 100% signal level and 100% quality, but lots of discontinuities. Funny thing was, I noticed C31, which is a weaker signal in my area, tuned at 84% signal level, and it was running fine. So I put an attenuator in, which dropped C31's level down to 64%, but all other channels still showed 100%. C31 was still playable and viola, so were all the other channels now.Prior to that I also had a lot of problems with hardware conflicts causing complete software lock ups of TV Server. Like could not even stop the service, and the computer would not shut down cleanly.&nbsp; Had to disable a lot of &quot;unnecessary&quot; onboard peripherals, including onboard SATA and USB host controller to get the card to work and stop crashing. Strange thing was re-enabling everything after re-installing the quad card didn't cause the crashes again, so I assume win-blows decided to re-allocate / re-configure some of the hardware resources that were not sharing properly. Confirmed this twice with a fresh install.&nbsp;All-in-all not the easiest of installs I've done, but with a bit of perseverance I got there.&nbsp;PS, I also think the DNTV live software is a bit flaky. Anything that needs &quot;run as administrator&quot; in this day and age is taking short cuts it shouldn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="globaldonkey, post: 1011727, member: 49844"] Just bought one of these tuners myself, as I wanted to do some streaming to ipads around the house using MP Extended and needed some extra tuners. Had similar sorts of problems, and it drove me bonkers for about a week. They are a lot more sensitive to "hot" signals it seems. I successfully tuned everything with 100% signal level and 100% quality, but lots of discontinuities. Funny thing was, I noticed C31, which is a weaker signal in my area, tuned at 84% signal level, and it was running fine. So I put an attenuator in, which dropped C31's level down to 64%, but all other channels still showed 100%. C31 was still playable and viola, so were all the other channels now. Prior to that I also had a lot of problems with hardware conflicts causing complete software lock ups of TV Server. Like could not even stop the service, and the computer would not shut down cleanly. Had to disable a lot of "unnecessary" onboard peripherals, including onboard SATA and USB host controller to get the card to work and stop crashing. Strange thing was re-enabling everything after re-installing the quad card didn't cause the crashes again, so I assume win-blows decided to re-allocate / re-configure some of the hardware resources that were not sharing properly. Confirmed this twice with a fresh install. All-in-all not the easiest of installs I've done, but with a bit of perseverance I got there. PS, I also think the DNTV live software is a bit flaky. Anything that needs "run as administrator" in this day and age is taking short cuts it shouldn't. [/QUOTE]

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