I was wondering if any users here use the TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200 HDTV-S2 under Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit, either in Single-Seat or with a TV-Server. Do any of you have any (major) troubles in Win7 32 or Win7 64 with this card (in Windows in general and with the TV-Server/MediaPortal)? Which driver version do you use? I noticed that there were some beta drivers floating around, but I think those are mainly the MCE drivers and are old now already and the ones on the official website (BDA 5.0.1.8 for instance) are the newest ones available.
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Hi,
i use two cards in my system as singleseat installation. Mostly the cards work stable, but sometimes one card stop working in tvserver. Then i have to reboot my system. I use the official drivers which are available on website.
Hi,
i use two cards in my system as singleseat installation. Mostly the cards work stable, but sometimes one card stop working in tvserver. Then i have to reboot my system. I use the official drivers which are available on website.
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Hi Spooky
Yes, I use one in XP. Although it is not 7, I thought I should at least say that the latest drivers (5.0.1.8) with MP 1.2.0b are very stable for me. I'm using a CAM and DiSEqC switch without any trouble. Are you asking because you're thinking of buying or because you're having trouble?
Yes, I use one in XP. Although it is not 7, I thought I should at least say that the latest drivers (5.0.1.8) with MP 1.2.0b are very stable for me. I'm using a CAM and DiSEqC switch without any trouble. Are you asking because you're thinking of buying or because you're having trouble?
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Well, I ask for two reasons actually. I recently started to have a problem with the card on my own TV-Server ( https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...v-server-90/ci-error-setprogram-failed-96371/ ), but since this only happened recently and never had a major problem with the card myself before that, I suspect that the card itself or the driver is not really at fault here, I don't know.
And I already bought a card for a friend's HTPC, however, I have major problems with that PC unfortunately. The core problems are (probably, I am still not sure about the exact cause) not related to the S2-3200 card itself (german users can read up on it here, if they are interested). However, during the times where the PC did not crash, LiveTV had a lot of artifacts. In SD I get weird blocking issues, same as with HD channels, but on HD channels different halfs of the video are green. Audio (which is passed through S/P-DIF) also had 'artifacts'. I am hoping that this problem is also related to the hardware error this PC experiences. I also thought, maybe using Windows 7 x64 was not a good idea, since it does not really provide any advantage for a pure HTPC in single seat. Though, as a side note: there was one period of time, where no issues occurred in LiveTV. So... yeah... it's just a very annoying and weird issue with that PC in general, I hope I can finally get to the bottom of this on the weekend.
It's just so frustrating when you buy new hardware and, again, nothing works, basically
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I have one on w7 64 with latest official drivers and with MP1.2.0 it works without any problems. Dont use cam.. I do have some issues with some frequencies but im lazy to investigate is this MP or driver fault because I can't scan some channels...
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Oh, I *really* know what you mean!!! Those kinds of things "drive me up the wall".It's just so frustrating when you buy new hardware and, again, nothing works, basically
Without having looked at the code and doing some debugging I'd have to concur with Morpheus and Salat. Morpheus is a smart guy and it seems like a logical explanation, although I guess it could be driver bug that only shows itself after extended periods of use (memory leak, reasources not cleaned up etc.)...
I don't understand German so I can't read the thread, however from your brief explanation it sounds like a video card driver problem...
In the long term the team are trying to encourage people to move to W7, so if you can resolve the problems then it is better to stick with 7. Dealing with things like that can be *incredibly* time consuming, so it is understandable to want to go to the "tried and true" XP. Myself: I just don't own 7, so I don't use it. Someday soon I will probably try to upgrade and end up pulling out all my hair with the problems I encounter!
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I don't think it's a memory leak, since I had one instance, where this issue occurred only ~9 hours after a restart of the server. But I have increased all the values morpheus mentioned by 5 seconds and will observe if this issue still occurs. If that fails, I'll simply buy a new CAM and/or card maybe.
Maybe, though I did use the latest Catalyst drivers. Well, I have to fix the hardware first anyway, before I can tackle that problem, if it ever occurs at all after that.
u know what? i remember now i had similar problems like u. run memory test to see if if ur ram is ok! mine 1gb was bad and i had artifacts like you described
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I see
. Well... the thing is... this whole thing is very weird and complex . But to keep it short: the PC initially worked fine, then a day later, it constantly had blue screens... then a day later it seemed fine again. We ran ~9 hours of Prime95 (blend) without any error or bluescreen. We ran 20 hours of memtest86+ without any error. Of course no error does not tell you any hard evidence in both cases. Since yesterday, a totally different issue occurred: after "Loading operating system" the BIOS says "Begin to update backup BIOS to latest version, writing BIOS image ..........", after that, nothing can be seen anymore and the PC/BIOS restarts and the whole thing is done again. This happens ~3 times and then the BIOS finally attempts to boot the OS apparently, but fails with "the file is possibly corrupt, the file header checksum does not match the computed checksum". In a few Google hits for that error, the RAM was at fault.
I really, really hope that just the RAM is the problem here, because that would be an easily solved problem. But since we ran 9 hours of prime and 20 hours of memtest86+, I am still "nervous"
. I'll get to that HTPC today, my course of action will be: exchange RAM and see if that BIOS error goes away (and then format and install OS again and test everything thoroughly). If not, I'll try a different PSU, if that does not help a different CPU... if that does not help a new motherboard (bought the same model yesterday, which I can give back if I do not need it).And if that does not help I will go into exile.
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9 hours is a long time for a driver, especially if you're using the tuner and CAM a lot.
If I was trying to resolve the problem then I would be trying to find out the smallest "thing" that I could do that would make the problem go away. That would give me more specific information about the cause. For example, my first step would be to try removing and reinserting the subscription card. If that resolved the problem then it is very likely a CAM fault. If it didn't help I'd try the subscription card in my STB to ensure my subscription is updated. After that, I'd try reinserting the CAM... using the tuner in other applications... different drivers... re-seat the card... The list goes on - I'm sure you know how it goes.