Installed a TV tuner card and now computer doesnt boot

[Corporate Thug]

i installed a tv tuner card in my desktop and i can get everything to power but all i get is a blank screen. i hear a high pitched weezing sound that suggests its prolly a short, where can the short be coming from?

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[bmacd]

my idea? REMOVE THE CARD!!!

-=bmacd=-

 

[bmacd]

if you purchased it at a B&M, exchange it to see if it's a defective unit or your rig.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Corporate Thug]

my rig was on and workin fine before the card, i took the card out. no luck

 

[jfall]

try clearing the cmos?

 

[Corporate Thug]

tried that too

according the the LED indicator on the mobo (DFI ultra D), the graphics card isnt being detected

how did that happen?

 

[mattburk]

I have a dfi board too. I have updated everything, as soon as I plug in my tv tuner card, I cant boot up. I asked some people in the dfi forums, no help. I just put it back in my old p3 and it works fine. I think dfi has a few problems that none seem to confront, including maxtor serial ata drives and internal tv tuner cards. My card is a kworld. What is yours?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: mattburk
I have a dfi board too. I have updated everything, as soon as I plug in my tv tuner card, I cant boot up. I asked some people in the dfi forums, no help. I just put it back in my old p3 and it works fine. I think dfi has a few problems that none seem to confront, including maxtor serial ata drives and internal tv tuner cards. My card is a kworld. What is yours?

mine is a HAUPPAUGE, i got it to boot but when i restarted, i got the same problem

i removed the card and i still cant boot....

 

[JetBlack69]

try reseating the video card, it might have been loosened when you installed the tv card.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69
try reseating the video card, it might have been loosened when you installed the tv card.

tried that a million times

 

[mattburk]

yeah there is a deffeinate problem. Its not reseating or even drivers. It was a clean install for me before any drivers were on. When I say drivers I mean from the tvtuner company. I think it is a hardware problem, something that is unique to tv tuners.
Good luck, did you try a different slot?

 

[AmberClad]

You didn't install the TV tuner card into the PCI slot directly below your video card did you ? I've found that even if you install a large one (Hauppauge for example) three slots below, it can still raise full load core temps on a GPU by 10 C or more due to bad airflow.

The other possibly I can think of is you damaged the GPU in the process of installing the tuner card.

 

[mattburk]

not the case for me, put it in the old computer and works fine. New computer works great with out the tv tuner, I always put it at lease two slots away from the graphic card, and usually on the bottom just for air flow.