will this work??

[angrynerdrock]

okay, i currently have a PCI ati radeon 9250 128mb...
i use it solely for the dual monitor support, and find that quite handy. now, my room is currently tv less, and i want to be a cheap ass if possible. i want to have tv in my room, but not invest any money.

now i also have another video card, an AGP geforce fx5700 128mb that has a tv tuner card built into it. i dont want to lose the dual monitor support, but can i plug this card into my agp port and use only the tv tuner portion(no monitors plugged into the agp card)?

i realize i can get a cheap tv tuner for like $20, but i dont really want to spend money if i dont have to, plus id like this to work tonight...let me know.

 

[schneiderguy]

Yes, that should work great.

 

[angrynerdrock]

okay, so i popped the geforce card in, and after changing some bios settings, the ati card is the primary adapter and everything works smoothly. windows shows i can have up to 3 monitors running at once. now here is where my problems starts.

i tried using the bundled pvr program, nvidias forceware mulitmedia. it wont work at all, it sits on channel 2 (my sat rcvr modulator is on channel 60 antenna) and per the manual it says to go into the tv tab in the properties and it can be added...that tab is magically missing. the program has always worked before...i might try deleting it and reinstalling.

next i tried avs tvbox. it does find channel 60 no problem, and i can get AUDIO only through this...it shows no video whatsoever.

i tried beyond tv, and the initial setup program on that one locks up after i select the audio input, so i cant even get far enough into this one to try it.

i tried gb-pvr, but suprise, i dont have .NET on my computer, so it will not run.

im really getting discouraged. what can i try to do from here?

think its windows being dumb? or is it user error?

 

[Maxspeed996]

that's ATI and Nvidia not playing nice together......
you won't be able to run the mixed cards in your system due to driver incompatibilities.

 

[angrynerdrock]

that really sucks! there is no way to fix this?? im assuming plugging in a 3rd monitor to the nvidia card wont help when i want to play tv on it/