Mentor TV Card and XP

[Chris]

I have a Mentor TV card - model 878TV w/FM. Will this card work under
XP with all features (TV tuner, video capture, FM radio and Teletext)
with existing Win 95/98 drivers or will I need new XP drivers? If I
do need new drivers where do I get them from?

TIA

[Jim Macklin]

http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/installation.html


"Chris" > wrote in message
...
| I have a Mentor TV card - model 878TV w/FM. Will this
card work under
| XP with all features (TV tuner, video capture, FM radio
and Teletext)
| with existing Win 95/98 drivers or will I need new XP
drivers? If I
| do need new drivers where do I get them from?
|
| TIA

[NoNoBadDog!]

You will need XP drivers (if they even exist). I have never heard of this
brand of card, but they should have a website where you can go and look for
WinXP drivers. I did a quick search on google and this is definitely a
bargain basement variety card. I found no direct support website, and too
numerous posts regarding video and audio problems with this particular card.
I would recommend the purchase of a new card that can give you the benefits
that WinXP offers, as well as doing a better job of PVR functions than this
card is capable of.

Bobby



"Chris" > wrote in message
...
> I have a Mentor TV card - model 878TV w/FM. Will this card work under
> XP with all features (TV tuner, video capture, FM radio and Teletext)
> with existing Win 95/98 drivers or will I need new XP drivers? If I
> do need new drivers where do I get them from?
>
> TIA

[Jim Macklin]

You will need new drivers for XP. They may be on the XP CD
already or you may need to check the Mentor website.

http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/installation.html


"Chris" > wrote in message
...
| I have a Mentor TV card - model 878TV w/FM. Will this
card work under
| XP with all features (TV tuner, video capture, FM radio
and Teletext)
| with existing Win 95/98 drivers or will I need new XP
drivers? If I
| do need new drivers where do I get them from?
|
| TIA

[Chris]

Thanks for your quick response guys. I still couldn't find Mentor's
own website but I did find the UK distributor's site:

http://www.lightcomputers.com/brands/mentor.htm

This led me to the driver for the chipset on this card and it
apparently works with XP:

http://www.linden-computech.com/download/TV/TV99PRO_driver.htm

I hope this may be of some use to someone else with one of these
cards.

Thanks again.
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:15:38 -1000, "NoNoBadDog!"
> wrote:

>You will need XP drivers (if they even exist). I have never heard of this
>brand of card, but they should have a website where you can go and look for
>WinXP drivers. I did a quick search on google and this is definitely a
>bargain basement variety card. I found no direct support website, and too
>numerous posts regarding video and audio problems with this particular card.
>I would recommend the purchase of a new card that can give you the benefits
>that WinXP offers, as well as doing a better job of PVR functions than this
>card is capable of.
>
>Bobby
>
>
>
>"Chris" > wrote in message
...
>> I have a Mentor TV card - model 878TV w/FM. Will this card work under
>> XP with all features (TV tuner, video capture, FM radio and Teletext)
>> with existing Win 95/98 drivers or will I need new XP drivers? If I
>> do need new drivers where do I get them from?
>>
>> TIA
>