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The thread discusses a user experiencing a BSOD issue when trying to watch live TV with a Compro TV tuner card on a Windows Vista x64 system, despite the driver installing correctly. A contributor suggests that driver problems may cause such blue screens, prompting the original poster to troubleshoot further. The user eventually resolves the issue by noticing a missed power connection during installation, after which the tuner works with Compro’s software, though Media Center remains problematic, and they also revert to default drivers for stability. Overall, the discussion centers on hardware and driver troubleshooting to achieve proper tuner functionality.
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System: nForce 3 250Gb mobo/Athlon 64 3400+/2Gb ram/6600GT 128mb AGP vid, Vista Home Premium x64.

Put in a Compro Videomate TV Gold Plus PCI TV/FM card that I had had in this setup before when it was my XP Pro system. Downloaded x64 driver and software from Compro's site. Install went fine.
Problem is whenever I try to watch live TV (either in Media Center or just using Compro's software) I get audio, then screen goes black and I get BSOD showing a memory dump and system is locked up and have to reboot.

This tuner worked fine under XP Pro with the above setup.

Sam
 

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Got it working. I think the problem may have been I forgot to plug the power connector to the video card back in when I was installing the tuner card(DOH!). When I reinstalled the card today I noticed power connector hanging next to vid card. But I let Vista search for new driver for tuner, said it installed one (version looked the same as the one I downloaded from Compro but it works).
Media Center does not work well with this tuner (have audio, video never shows up or it takes a long time to run). So I'm using Compro's DTV4 software and it works fine.

On another note tried installing the latest nVidia drivers but had to roll back to the ones Vista installed.

Sam
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Hi Sam,

the dreaded BSOD are usually caused by incorrect or bad drivers so double check that you have the correct versions for your model.
 

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Got it working. I think the problem may have been I forgot to plug the power connector to the video card back in when I was installing the tuner card(DOH!). When I reinstalled the card today I noticed power connector hanging next to vid card. But I let Vista search for new driver for tuner, said it installed one (version looked the same as the one I downloaded from Compro but it works).
Media Center does not work well with this tuner (have audio, video never shows up or it takes a long time to run). So I'm using Compro's DTV4 software and it works fine.

On another note tried installing the latest nVidia drivers but had to roll back to the ones Vista installed.

Sam
 

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