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USB / BDA drivers.Hi,
To put it quite bluntly this is driving me insane. i am so mad with it.
My system refuses to go back to normal usb drivers. I have cleaned the registry out, uninstalled, re-installed countless times. cleaned out the registry nebula backups also.
I cannot see any nebula named drives in the hidden devices in device manager. tried redirecting the bda to the usb drivers. everything.
I have disabled my internal pci satellite card (hauppauge win nova HD S2 pci card) to no effect.
I am using xp 32bit sp3.
There is not option of me doing a full re-install.
blackbooks.
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Bill
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Does it ask you for a driver location or does it install one automatically?
If automatic, search for files - containing text "nebula" in the C:\WINNT\inf (or xp equivalent)
delete any that it finds.
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blackbooks
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I had already cleaned out the inf files by the looks of it.
windows hardware wizard.
connect to windows update > no
"The wizard helps you install software for
Nebula DigiTV USB BDA"
install from specific location > point to xp driver folder, then proceeds to install bda files. checked xp driver folder, only xp drivers.
The above was what I was doing and it failed to work.
I thought i had solved it. I choose on the driver
"Don't search, I will choose the driver to install."
click have disk, browse to nebula drivers supplied seperatly on website, selected DigiTV-USB.inf. computer then see it as normal usb.
the nebula then is detected as a SLAVE. uninstalling in device manager prompts for the drivers for: Nebula DigiTV USB BDA again.
any idea's?
blackbooks
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HyperReality
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| blackbooks wrote: | | the nebula then is detected as a SLAVE. uninstalling in device manager prompts for the drivers for: Nebula DigiTV USB BDA again. |
That's because you didn't unplug it from the USB port after installing the WDM drivers, and then wait for 10+ seconds and plug it back in again (or in the case of a DigiTV USB with the separate power supply, unplug USB, unplug power, replug power, replug USB).
The BDA driver firmware (which is downloaded into the device when it is plugged in) is slightly different to the WDM firmware, and the WDM driver + BDA firmware == DigiTV sees the device as a slave.
It sounds like you were 95% there, try the "install from a specific location" approach again, just replug the device (and restart DigiTV) after the drivers have been updated.
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blackbooks
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The i will choose method worked and you were right, an unplug and re-plug did the trick and its now a Master.
Thanks!
The only thing i have left to solve now is the interferance problem that the card seems to be hyper sensitive to. that is something thats hard to solve. *sigh*
BER is 0.035 and keeps jumping. I am using a very short length of satellite quality cable from a televes distribution amp.
analogue picture is near perfect off the same amp.
stb's dont complain.
The setup is in the loft, it is winter time, next to a busy road, and have always been on the very outer reaches of sutton coldfield (LE10).
SNR value around 16-20.
Is it worth buying some ferrites?
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