all of a sudden fuzzy signal with Hauppauge 500MCE Tuner

[Gooberlx2]

I don't what happened the other day between installing a refrigerator or splitting my cable line between my MCE pc and a regular TV, but all of a suddent I can't get anything clear on my Hauppauge 500MCE.

I've tried:
- Moving fridge to other side of room
- disconnecting regular TV
- adding signal amplifier from RadioShack
- moving PC to use shorter cable
- switching PCI slots
- reinstalling drivers

....I'm at a loss. Is there a way that a power spike could have surged through the cable line and fried my tuner (though it doesn't smell fried)? Besides, wouldn't that totally kill the card, not just make a fuzzy signal?

Signal to the TV is perfectly fine. Cable line to the PC is probably 25' long but, like I said, I used a booster...and it had been working perfectly fine before.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

did you try it again without the splitter??

are you using a typical 2 way cable splitter? if so put the booster before the splitter.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
did you try it again without the splitter??

are you using a typical 2 way cable splitter? if so put the booster before the splitter.

Yep regular 2-way splitter you'd get from the cable guy. I've actually tried two different 2-way splitters (and both outputs each).

I've tried With/without splitter. Booster before and after splitter, and right next to PC, etc...

The signal went to crap and my first thought was the change the cable (the screw piece at one end kept falling off). The new cable is also the beefier kind you'd get from the cable guy (beefier compared to what I was using), yet still fuzzy. I can't, for the life of me find anything along the line that would be interfering....I hope I don't have to RMA the board...I guess since Over There is over for the season I don't really care, but it's still a PITA.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

see what kind of signal you get on the tv using the cable thats giving the pc the bad signal. dont use a cable box, just go straight to the tv.

if its good, then its probably the card.