System does not boot with WinTV-PVR-150MCE into it

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Toley

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Hi, I have a MSI 850 Pro 5 motherboard, which is actually my old system and I wanted to make a Windows Media Center PC from it. So I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE TV-card and installed it. Now the motherboard does not boot with this card into it. It doesn't even show anything on the screen: the monitor stays off...

It only beeps - one × long two × short. This means that I have a bad VGA card according to the Award BIOS beeptones. Nonsence of course, because the VGA card worked fine without the TV-card into the motherboard.

It is an ATI Radeon 9600 VGA card. It seems my new TV-card 'overrules' this VGA card or something, thus giving no visual... maybe the motherboard 'sees' the TV card as a faulty VGA card and therefore gives those beeps while disregarding the real AGP card (which is ok)?

I'm using the latest BIOS. (1.07) Does anyone know of any problems with TV-cards that prevent VGA cards to work? And how to resolve that problem?

I already tried to put the tv-card into another slot and I tried the 'reset configuration' BIOS settings in the PCI/PNP menu. Doesn't help...

Thanks for helping me out.
 
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Toley

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Originally posted by: quakefiend420
try the card in another system...its possible the tv card is faulty
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Hm, I tried that, in two other computers and there it worked fine in both. I think it's just my mainboard that cannot handle this card. Maybe I need another BIOS version. Weirdest is, when I put other cards in (soundcard, network card, and even another TV-card from Pinnacle) it works flawlessly.

One thing I noticed about this card is that it does not fit very well in all cases I tried it in. I need to bend things slightly and cannot screw it in. But I think that is besides the point. The card is working perfect in the other (allthough newer) systems. It boots and media center works with it...
 
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Toley

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Wow it works! (Well it kind of works, in another system with another VGA card... ) I e-mailed MSI tech support with somewhat like my starting topic here and they have just replied. (Now that is service, a reply in less than two hours) It seems there is an incompatibility issue with (lucky me) exactly THIS graphics card and THIS TV-card :shocked:

This is their reply:

"Dear Customer,

This is a compatibility issue with the ATI video card and the tuner card which using the same resources.

Please do contact the video card vendor and the tuner vendor for support on this issue.

Sincerely,
Technical Support Division
MSI Computer Corp. "

So I just put a VGA card in from someone else: the same someone from the system I tried the TV-card with, which is why this also worked. It was an Nvidia card and he doesn't want to trade :-( so I have to buy a compatible card for this TV-Card.

Well, I guess there is no alternative solution than buying another VGA card. I'll go take a look at ATI.com and Hauppauge.com first and eventually e-mail them as MSI suggested... there might be a solution after all...

But Ribbon, thanks for the suggestion to ask MSI. And did I mention their quick tech support?
 
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Toley

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Well It's not the mainboard... it is the tv-card and the Radeon 9600 which "use the same resources" according to MSI.
 
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Matthias99

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Originally posted by: Toley
Well It's not the mainboard... it is the tv-card and the Radeon 9600 which "use the same resources" according to MSI.
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I have a PVR150-MCE (two of them, actually) and an AGP R9600 in my PVR box. It works just fine, at least for me.

It is possible the cards are having a conflict on your motherboard, though... did you try it in a different PCI slot? Sometimes certain PCI slots (esp. on older motherboards) share IRQs with each other and/or the AGP slot, which can break things.
 
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xbassman

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It is possible the cards are having a conflict on your motherboard, though... did you try it in a different PCI slot? Sometimes certain PCI slots (esp. on older motherboards) share IRQs with each other and/or the AGP slot, which can break things.
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Toley

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Hm, you are right, it seems to be the motherboard after all, but also my SOUNDCARD SoundBlaster Audigy... !!?? I'll explain:

My MSI 850 Pro5 motherboard + Sapphire R9600 + SB Audigy + PVR-150MCE TV tuner = incompatible: beeps

My MSI 850 Pro5 motherboard + Nvidia card + SB Audigy + PVR-150MCE TV tuner = works

My MSI 850 Pro5 motherboard + Sapphire R9600 + PVR-150MCE TV tuner = works

Another system's motherboard* + Sapphire R9600 + SB Audigy + PVR-150MCE TV tuner works

*(I tried all three cards here in a MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard - AMD Athlon 64)

All this no matter which PCI slot combination I use.

In general: those four things (motherboard, VGA card, soundcard and tuner) do not go together. If I replace one of them with somthing else or leave it out all is fine... Could this be an IRQ problem? Is there some general method to cope with IRQ problems? (Or should I just use the currently disabled onboard sound on the MSI 850 Pro5 and not use the Audigy :( and live with crackling sound and noise... noooooo, help me please)
 
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