Pinnacle PCTV Card... need drivers!

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  1. GiGo

    GiGo was once a nerd.....

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    One of my mates just gave me a Pinnacle Systems miroVIDEO PCTV card. Thing is that XP doesn't find the drivers. Visited there website and there is very little for the card. I'm currently downloading a 32mb file (56k user). The NT drivers on the disk don't work nether do the Win95 drivers. Does anyone know where to download the drivers from?

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  3. GiGo

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    Cheers, tried there. I downloaded the PCTV Basic 5.01 Webinstaller and its reconised the card! Now getting it working is another task. The software that shipped with it doesn't like my GF4 440. Tried the PCTV software and gave me an error message saying about some crap. I'll try it later and post the error. It's got smothing to do with IRQ errors.

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  4. hydrogen18

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    thats a high quality card you got. I run it in my pc. Works with no problems with my gf4 mx 440. Btw what do you have you're gf4 oced to?
     
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  5. GiGo

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    I know there high qulity cars. I looke at a shop in town today and looked at the Studio Card. There appears to be a connector on the Coaxial Tuner part. My friend didn't give me this. I don't know if thata the problem. The card works but it doesn't tune any channels. BTW hydrogen18 could you try the coaxial connection without the extra connection on it, please, it will telll me if I need it or not. Thanks. I've got my GF4 running at 4x AGP, how do you overclock it?

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    By using a utility such as Powerstrip or NVMax you gradually up the frequency of the graphics core and/or memory!
     
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  7. hydrogen18

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    The card I have is actually a step above this one but my sisters is the one you have. I havent tested it but head on down to RatShack and pickup a RCA(male) to Coaxial(female) and plug it on. The connector doesnt matter just the fact that the signal enters the tuner. The above adapter simply allows you to connect regular coaxial cables without having to splice a RCA(male) to a coaxial(female).
     
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  8. GiGo

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    Cheers hydrogen18. I would pop down to RatShack but I live in england, the US is a bit far to go. All the Tandy's got taken over so we no longer have any! I've got connectors that I got from Wilkinson. I brought the cable that goes from the card to the ariel socket. I've got all that sorted but I still don't get any picture :cries:. Any other ideas? Or if you could email me the drivers, if you do please tell me the day before.

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    Sorry about not responding to this topic...
    So do u have it working?
    I will upload the drivers to the web soon if you do not.
     
    hydrogen18, 9 Jul 2002
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