tuner flamingwoodchuck For those of you with a disappearing problem, I just got this response from Avermedia support that you might want to try: "Try raising the ICH PCI-E and IOH PCI-E voltage. You should be able to find in BIOS settings." I'm not willing to be a guinnea pig anymore and switched to a similiar Hauppauge card after fighting with the duet for 9 months. Hope it helps! If you buy from the main stream builders, HP, DELL, etc. Their BIOS usually has no such options.
flamingwoodchuck For those of you with a disappearing problem, I just got this response from Avermedia support that you might want to try: "Try raising the ICH PCI-E and IOH PCI-E voltage. You should be able to find in BIOS settings." I'm not willing to be a guinnea pig anymore and switched to a similiar Hauppauge card after fighting with the duet for 9 months. Hope it helps!
For those of you with a disappearing problem, I just got this response from Avermedia support that you might want to try:
"Try raising the ICH PCI-E and IOH PCI-E voltage. You should be able to find in BIOS settings."
I'm not willing to be a guinnea pig anymore and switched to a similiar Hauppauge card after fighting with the duet for 9 months. Hope it helps!
If you buy from the main stream builders, HP, DELL, etc. Their BIOS usually has no such options.
It's a mistake to buy from the HPs, DELLs, etc. of the world. Build your own whenver possible.
Give me a break! Not everyone have the skills and time to build their own.
I have the skill but I just can't find the kind of time to buy everything separately and put them together. And when things don't work, it is a big hassle to figure out the component at fault.
It saves money too! I get a full featured SFF PC with Intel Dual Core + G43, 4GB RAM, 600GB HDD with LEGAL Windows 7 last year for less than $250. Beat that!
I had my Duet for about 2 weeks in which it worked flawlessly, then it all went down hill. S3 sleep issues, I also have an AMD based system. I then tried using the S4 hibernate and it seemed to do ok for about a week or so and now it even disappeared from me on hibernate the other night. It took 2 shutdowns with unplugging the system each time to get it to be recognized. What was really frustrating was that I was just 2 days past my 30 days to return it to Newegg. I have now applied for an RMA to Avermedia of which they will probably want me to foot the bill for shipping back to them on a product which has these known issues. I am really wishing now I would have bought an HD Homerun instead. I can only hope that when I do get my replacement A188 Duet that it will work without issue, but from what I have read there is a good chance that the replacement unit will have the same issues again. I will wait and see, and keep posted as to what happens.
Woody,
As I had mentioned above I did switch to S4, I also did turn off all power savings for the PCIe. While this did work fine most of the time, it has recently started having occasional problems coming out of S4 also. I just never know when it will work, and when it won't. I had an older Aver M780 that never missed a beat for a year, I can only hope to get an A188 that would be as reliable.
tuner Give me a break! Not everyone have the skills and time to build their own. I have the skill but I just can't find the kind of time to buy everything separately and put them together. And when things don't work, it is a big hassle to figure out the component at fault. It saves money too! I get a full featured SFF PC with Intel Dual Core + G43, 4GB RAM, 600GB HDD with LEGAL Windows 7 last year for less than $250. Beat that!
Mmm, my opinion is by the time you figure in on hold times waiting for tech support for your broken system with all of the supereflous bloatware, it's still a better situation to build your own - if you have the know-how. If you do not know how to build and backup a PC it's a different story. I'm a professional who makes media center a hobby - I do not like Fing with PC problems - and can't stand incompetent "support" from OEMs. For me and those like minded - build your own is the only way to go.
No one is forcing you to use the bloatware. I just uninstall whichever I see fit.
I never called support for my PC. Who needs support if it "just works"? Support is for companies like AVerMedia.
I have an interesting situation. I built a media center PC last week and have 2 Duet's installed. I don't use hibernate or sleep but when I reboot they disappear. This isn't anything to do with the drivers because when they disappear they also fail to appear on the IRQ list on the post screen. The really really odd thing is that both of them disappear together every time. I've run into no circumstance where 1 appears without the other. The highest likely hood of them appearing happens when I shut down the PC and let it sit for at least 30 seconds before starting it back up. Doing restarts or immediate shutdown/turn on cycles usually fails to detect them. Can anyone come up with a theory to support this behavior?
Not so unusual to me. I have seen the exact same behavior with the exception that I only have one. if your PC sleep, you will most likely run into the problem too. You can call AVerMedia support to see what they say. Most likely you are out of luck. Hope you can still return them.
I got my replacement A188 yesterday from Avermedia and set it up without any problems. I set it to record a show today while I was away at work and when I came home the computer was running and locked up with a black screen. I did a hard shutdown and unplugged it then plugged it back in and rebooted, I then looked in my recorded tv and it never recorded my tv show. I then set the computer to S4 hibernate and put it into hibernation as this is the recommended fix, I then went to wake the computer and the the tuner had disappeared. Unbelievable only one day on the replacement unit and it is worse than the first one. What a joke to send me this, thanks a lot Avermedia, I really appreciate this, a total waste of my money and time. If you have an AMD based system stay away from this unit.
tattoozitcan anyone recommend a dual hd tuner for about this price
I switched to the Hauppauge HVR-2250. At the time it cost a little more, not sure what it is going for now.
For me, the QAM tuners are becoming obsolete, anyway, because Comcast has now encrypted most of the non-broadcast channels. I plan to get a cablecard tuner when they become more affordable. I might use the Duet as an OTA tuner with an antenna and combine it with a cablecard tuner for my cable channels. I would love to have some alternative to cable that is compatible with media center, but I don't know anything that would work.