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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1153961" data-attributes="member: 82144">I take it you mean PCIe (PCI Express)? (...which is very different to PCI).It is true that some people have had compatibility problems trying to use tuners based on PCIe v1.x-compatible chipsets in motherboards with PCIe v2.x or PCIe v3.0 slots. However the primary symptom - that cards would never be recognised by Windows until a BIOS/EFI update was made available by the motherboard vendor - is quite different to the symptoms described in this thread. To be clear, this problem is not limited to TBS products and only affects certain motherboards.My understanding is that this is a known (and separate) issue with many tuner designs based on the Phillips/NXP/Trident/Entropic SAA7160 (and SAA7162) chipset. I speak from personal experience with 2 x Pinnacle PCTV 7010ix cards and a DigitalNow DNTV Live! Quattro S - all based on the SAA7162. Blackgold BGT3540 cards which are based on the same chipset have similar problems. Again, this problem is definitely not confined to TBS products.I would agree that this is likely to be something completely different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1153961, member: 82144"] I take it you mean PCIe (PCI Express)? (...which is very different to PCI). It is true that some people have had compatibility problems trying to use tuners based on PCIe v1.x-compatible chipsets in motherboards with PCIe v2.x or PCIe v3.0 slots. However the primary symptom - that cards would [U]never[/U] be recognised by Windows until a BIOS/EFI update was made available by the motherboard vendor - is quite different to the symptoms described in this thread. To be clear, this problem is not limited to TBS products and only affects certain motherboards. My understanding is that this is a known (and separate) issue with many tuner designs based on the Phillips/NXP/Trident/Entropic SAA7160 (and SAA7162) chipset. I speak from personal experience with 2 x Pinnacle PCTV 7010ix cards and a DigitalNow DNTV Live! Quattro S - all based on the SAA7162. Blackgold BGT3540 cards which are based on the same chipset have similar problems. Again, this problem is definitely not confined to TBS products. I would agree that this is likely to be something completely different. [/QUOTE]

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