pvr-250mce, xp wont recognize

[eruji]

Thought i'd add a second tuner, so i purchased the 250mce.

Ive tried installing it on my sage server with no luck. WinXP wont find the card, meaning it wont start the new hardware wizard so i can install the drivers. I checked in the device manager and it doesnt show up at all.

so i tried running the hwclear utility from hauppauge, ive tried removing the original pvr-250, moving the card from slot to slot, nothing.

when i put it in another computer its found and installs correctly.

any ideas what im doing wrong?

[SHS]

what name and make of the motherboard?.

[mlbdude]

Did you try different PCI slots?

[eruji]

what name and make of the motherboard?

its an ABIT BX6 with a celron 266 OC'd to 400. this computer has been in use for many years. louder than hell but still runs and has been functioning as a great sagetv/htpc/web server.

Did you try different PCI slots?

yes tried it in 3 different slots.

[eruji]

Well i visited the SHS forums and found a few people with the same issue. seems that it could be a motherboard specific issue, or an irq related problem.

i guess i should mention that the BIOS does not see it as well. thats why windows doesnt see it.

are there bios settings i can modify to make it work?

[eruji]

i spoke with Greg at pcalchemy.com (where i ordered it from) and he thinks its because its on an older motherboard (BX). he said that he has had other returns for the same reason but only on the pvr-250mce. The regular 250's should be fine, and that is consistant with my setup. I have a regular 250 that works on that motherboard just fine.

anyhow, just a heads up to users wanting to buy this card with an older motherboard.

im wondering if the pvr150 will have the same problem?

[SHS]

Part of the problem may due to the fact that your overclock it which is pushing PCI bus to high I use to have Abit BH6 pettey the same as your board but only Celeron 300A was best CPU for overclocking.
2nd Problem may have do with your motherboard not support fully 3.3v PCI spec which 250MCE need unlike reg PVR 250 which is base on 5v.
You know why not just pick Slot1 P3 500 or 600 with 100MHz Bus CPU off eBay and they run way cooler then older P2 do.

[pvr_lurker]

Originally Posted by eruji

i spoke with Greg at pcalchemy.com (where i ordered it from) and he thinks its because its on an older motherboard (BX). he said that he has had other returns for the same reason but only on the pvr-250mce.

The "retail" versions of the PVR-250s only require +5V from the system; the MCE cards (which assume a "current" Motherboard, since nothing else could possible support MCE), require +3.3V from the system as well. A BX motherboard probably does not have 3.3V available.

[eruji]

okay i guess thats it. 3.3 thanks everyone for the info, i guess i could try to setup my server on an Asus CUSL2. But how do i know if that motherboard supports 3.3v?