Problems with Terratec Cinergy C PCI HD (DVB-C) (1 Viewer)

[Koen Zomers]

Nordemoniac, there sure are This is a sample photo of a motherboard with 64 bit and 32 bit PCI slots. The longer ones are 64 bit a.k.a. 100 Mhz slots a.k.a. PCI-X slots. Not all motherboards are equipped with them. If the Terratec card completely fits in the slot without leaving any more space, it's a 32 bit one and there should not be a problem.

I've heard many people who use the Terratec card under Windows 7 x64 without any problems. Are you still facing the problem that you're not finding any channels?

 

[nordemoniac]

Ah, I do have 32-bit PCIs on my "GA-H55M-UD2H". They are 5V. Should they be set to 3.3V?

Nordemoniac, there sure are This is a sample photo of a motherboard with 64 bit and 32 bit PCI slots. The longer ones are 64 bit a.k.a. 100 Mhz slots a.k.a. PCI-X slots. Not all motherboards are equipped with them. If the Terratec card completely fits in the slot without leaving any more space, it's a 32 bit one and there should not be a problem.

I've heard many people who use the Terratec card under Windows 7 x64 without any problems. Are you still facing the problem that you're not finding any channels?

I'm facing the problems in MediaPortal, not f.ex. NextPVR. In NPVR I'm only missing ONE channel. But I would like to try out MediaPortal, as it's more "Finished" than NPVR.

Which driver are you using?

 

[Koen Zomers]

Not sure about the voltage. I'm guessing they're fine by default, especially since you're able to find all but one channels, but I'm no expert on that field.

I'm using Windows 2008 R2 x64 which has the same kernell as Windows 7 x64. The latest driver from the Terratec website works fine here. I haven't verified if I can receive all of the channels though.

 

[nordemoniac]

Can you post the driver version?

 

[Koen Zomers]

I'm using v1.1.0.601 dated 18-7-2008 currently.

 

[nordemoniac]

Heh... I just can't get the card working in MediaPortal.

I'll give it another go this evening. (It should be a problem that NPVR is installed right?).

The thing is;

I CAN find a couple of channels, but suddenly it just looses all of the signal. Then I can search again, and maybe it will work another couple of seconds, finding another channel... It's like I said, it kinda "times out".

I can't see that it should be a problem with the signal, because it works perfectly on the channels it finds. And it actually does find almost every channel in NPVR.

In the included software, I couldn't find ONE channel.

What would you reckon is causing this problem?

 

[Koen Zomers]

I've had quite some problems in the past few days with the driver I am using. My Windows would spontaneously get a Blue Screen Of Death and reboot once every approxemately 4 hours. I've been stumbling quite some with settings and drivers and all seems to be stable now. I'm using the latest beta driver 1.01.02.401. You might want to give that one a try. I tried the latest official release 1.01.01.501, but with that one I couln't find any channels. The beta seems to work fine so far.

 

[nordemoniac]

Tested the driver - excellent!

All current problems are now fixed.

 

[Koen Zomers]

Nice! Others Googling this topic and looking for the same driver, download it from http://ftp.terratec.de/Receiver/Cinergy_C_PCI_HD_CI/Update/History/Cinergy_C_PCI_HD_CI_Drv_Setup_1.01.02.401_XP_Vista_7.exe. The link at the Terratec website doesn't work.

 

[Koen Zomers]

There's a new non beta driver made available by Terratec. See https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/help-terratec-pci-hd-users-new-beta-driver-works-great-88636/index2.html#post683015