| Pinnacle 3010ix Hibernation Issue |
| Written by Alex (nedge2k) |
| Wednesday, 20 May 2009 16:50 |
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Recently I built a new Media Center, the only part that wasn't new was the Pinnacle 3010ix PCI-E Dual DVB-T tuner that I'd had for a while and had been running (with numerous issues) in an old HP server. Long story short, under Vista and Windows 7, this card has habit of not being detected on resuming from hibernate. In the old server, the cure was a reboot. In the new Media Center, the cure varied. Sometimes a reboot, sometimes a full shutdown and boot, sometimes I'd even have to cut the power. It was driving me mad and meant I had to keep my old PVR in play for recording stuff "out of hours" (e.g. the Formula 1 at 5am). Anyway, I tried a few drivers from Pinnacle, no change. The last few versions of W7 had newer drivers but they either made things worse or, no change. So I decided to think laterally and went on the hunt for drivers of tuner card made by other companies but which shared the same Philips SAA716x chipset (716x for short). After a short search I found that the Avermedia H788 card shared the same chipset so I force-installed the drivers and, touch -wood, the card has worked perfectly ever since! The Media Center wakes up to record properly, the card is detected properly, it all just works :D If you're having similar issue with this card - or even other issues, mebbe you're in need of an x64 driver? - you can download them from the Avermedia H788 Driver page You have to download the AVer MediaCenter 1.7.3Beta dated 26/02/2009, extract the drivers from the package (WinRAR) and force the install of the AVerBDA6x.inf - after that, all should be good. It all went a bit wierd on first use but after that it's been fine :D I also found another driver for a Twinham card on the DVB Support driver download page that I've yet to try - the file for this one is the Twinhan DTV 3.4 Build 19 (BDA Driver), dated 13/02/2009. Hope this helps anyone with the same issues! Oh and for anyone wondering about my new Media Center specs...
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