TV Tuner Not Installing In XP Home...

[Ryan]

I have been using Windows 98SE since it came out and have
a TV Tuner thatworks just fine in 98SE. However, due to
buying a P4 and building a new rig, I went with XP to
take full advantage of my new CPU. I didn't purchase a
new TV Tuner because my current one has everything on it,
and ran me $400 a few years ago. The problem is that I
cannot install any drivers for it under XP. Everything
else installed fine, but I can't find XP drivers for this
card (it's a name-brand top of the line model) and it
won't let me use the 95 or 98 drivers on my CD. It is an
STB PCI card, with a Phillips reciever unit on it, and a
Conexant chipset. I can NOT afford to go blow another
$400 on a new TV Tuner, especially when the one I have is
still up to date and has everything I need and then some.
I also just got top of the line video editing software
(WinCoder, WinProducer, WinDVD, WinRip) and two of the
apps are useless without a capture device. What can I do
here? Should I email my drivers and setup stuff for this
device to Microsoft and let them develop an XP driver? Is
there a default TV Tuner driver like the default NIC
driver?

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Ryan;
Microsoft does not make drivers so there is no place to send the info
to at Microsoft.
Drivers are the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer.
Go to the website of the card manufacturer and get the Windows XP
Drivers.
If there are no Windows XP Drivers, try Windows 2000 drivers.
If neither of those are available, you have three choices:
1. Go back to Windows 98SE
2. Forget about the card.
3. Buy a new card.

--
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"Ryan" > wrote in message
...
> I have been using Windows 98SE since it came out and have
> a TV Tuner thatworks just fine in 98SE. However, due to
> buying a P4 and building a new rig, I went with XP to
> take full advantage of my new CPU. I didn't purchase a
> new TV Tuner because my current one has everything on it,
> and ran me $400 a few years ago. The problem is that I
> cannot install any drivers for it under XP. Everything
> else installed fine, but I can't find XP drivers for this
> card (it's a name-brand top of the line model) and it
> won't let me use the 95 or 98 drivers on my CD. It is an
> STB PCI card, with a Phillips reciever unit on it, and a
> Conexant chipset. I can NOT afford to go blow another
> $400 on a new TV Tuner, especially when the one I have is
> still up to date and has everything I need and then some.
> I also just got top of the line video editing software
> (WinCoder, WinProducer, WinDVD, WinRip) and two of the
> apps are useless without a capture device. What can I do
> here? Should I email my drivers and setup stuff for this
> device to Microsoft and let them develop an XP driver? Is
> there a default TV Tuner driver like the default NIC
> driver?

[Ryan]

Well then, can somebody show me where STB's website is? I
have tried "www.stb.com", "www.stbsystems.com", and
numerous others. It seems STB has no website, but I need
these drivers.

I program for Windows, Linux/Unix, and DOS, so I could
probably write drivers myself, but I've never attempted
to do so before. If STB has no website, where can I
figure out how to decompile my current drivers and then
compile to a driver format when I am done updating the
code?

[JBM]

I did a search in google for stb and found this link
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/n/rnd107/stbtvpci/
don't know if that helps but, but you also might try search
for the name or type of your card.

Jim Manning

"Ryan" > wrote in message
...
> Well then, can somebody show me where STB's website is? I
> have tried "www.stb.com", "www.stbsystems.com", and
> numerous others. It seems STB has no website, but I need
> these drivers.
>
> I program for Windows, Linux/Unix, and DOS, so I could
> probably write drivers myself, but I've never attempted
> to do so before. If STB has no website, where can I
> figure out how to decompile my current drivers and then
> compile to a driver format when I am done updating the
> code?

[Jupiter Jones]

Ryan;
See if any of these help:
http://www.video-drivers.com/drivers/62/62425.htm
http://www.driverscollection.com/
http://www.driverguide.com/

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"Ryan" > wrote in message
...
> Well then, can somebody show me where STB's website is? I
> have tried "www.stb.com", "www.stbsystems.com", and
> numerous others. It seems STB has no website, but I need
> these drivers.
>
> I program for Windows, Linux/Unix, and DOS, so I could
> probably write drivers myself, but I've never attempted
> to do so before. If STB has no website, where can I
> figure out how to decompile my current drivers and then
> compile to a driver format when I am done updating the
> code?

[Ryan]

Thanks guys. I found both of those sites and tried those
drivers. Whenever I used the BT drivers, if I tried using
the card XP would reboot. After uninstalling and removing
the INF files, I tried the other sets. The 3dfx came
closest, but it would cause a random reboot also. I
stayed up until 5am this morning uninstalling everything
and going through my system hand-deleting registry
entries and files those programs put in my Win/Sys and
Win/Sys32 directories, as well as the INF files. I'll put
this one back in my P3/866 which has 98SE on it, and I'll
just use the software I got with the ASUS mobo in this
machine, on that one. Hey, the package says "for use only
with ASUS motherboards", and all I run are ASUS boards,
so it isn't illegal!

[Phil]

You're a computer programmer and you can't search google
to find a website.

Scary.



>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks guys. I found both of those sites and tried those
>drivers. Whenever I used the BT drivers, if I tried
using
>the card XP would reboot. After uninstalling and
removing
>the INF files, I tried the other sets. The 3dfx came
>closest, but it would cause a random reboot also. I
>stayed up until 5am this morning uninstalling everything
>and going through my system hand-deleting registry
>entries and files those programs put in my Win/Sys and
>Win/Sys32 directories, as well as the INF files. I'll
put
>this one back in my P3/866 which has 98SE on it, and
I'll
>just use the software I got with the ASUS mobo in this
>machine, on that one. Hey, the package says "for use
only
>with ASUS motherboards", and all I run are ASUS boards,
>so it isn't illegal!
>.
>