Spectrum Bda Drivers Options

[Guest_Legacy_*]

Could someone who has some spectrum drivers, share them somewhere? Even if its just 1 version. Nate from these forums used to host them his page has been down for ages now.

I used to have WS working nicely and can only assume the difference between then and now are the drivers I'm trying to use. I must have used spectrum in the past. All I have now is the dodgy Twinhan drivers, none of which work regardless of the method employed to install them.

Surely someone still have some spectrum drivers lying around, your help would be appreciated.

[nate]

Hi Legacy,

Sorry about my site being down. I've managed to get the internet up and running at my new place, but I'm fighting with the firewall on my new modem/router at the moment. It doesn't seem to want to let packets through to my webserver. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon.

[bear]

Until nate's site is up and running.

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[Guest_Legacy_*]

Until nate's site is up and running.

Thanks bear, I ran those drivers and INSTANT SUCCESS! You'd think Twinhan could make their own BDA drivers work but that certainly isn't the case with my card. I can't reboot yet to see WS accepts them (I'm half way through encoding something) but I'll try in the morning. Fingers crossed, but it looks good!

And Nate, no worries mate thanks for explaining, hopefully you get it sorted without too much stress.

[bear]

I ran those drivers and INSTANT SUCCESS!

Yes, I fall back to them if I have issues with the Twinhan drivers, the Twinhan's do work, they just need a gentle prod in the right direction, have you tried pointing the driver's to update manualy to the driver location? Forgive me for asking if it's already been tried.

This post has been edited by bear: Sep 25 2006, 09:15 PM

[Guest_Legacy_*]

Yes, I fall back to them if I have issues with the Twinhan drivers, the Twinhan's do work, they just need a gentle prod in the right direction, have you tried pointing the driver's to update manualy to the driver location? Forgive me for asking if it's already been tried.

Yep actually thats how I've always installed these BDA drivers, maybe I'm just a skeptic or old fashioned hehe, but I prefer to be in complete control when fiddling with the drivers. What you say about Twinhan drivers working sometimes, I'm sure at some point in the past I have actually used them successfully, but who knows how or what version. I have 4 different versions here now and none work. I'm just hanging till morning so I can check if the spectrum drivers you provided work. Since they installed fine it should be okay, I don't recall if reboots were vital after installing new drivers... Hopefully it is, as WS / DigitalWatch isn't detecting the card as yet. Gotta let the encoding finish

[Guest_Legacy_*]

Yep actually thats how I've always installed these BDA drivers, maybe I'm just a skeptic or old fashioned hehe, but I prefer to be in complete control when fiddling with the drivers. What you say about Twinhan drivers working sometimes, I'm sure at some point in the past I have actually used them successfully, but who knows how or what version. I have 4 different versions here now and none work. I'm just hanging till morning so I can check if the spectrum drivers you provided work. Since they installed fine it should be okay, I don't recall if reboots were vital after installing new drivers... Hopefully it is, as WS / DigitalWatch isn't detecting the card as yet. Gotta let the encoding finish

Well I rebooted and it didn't solve anything unfortunately. What I have is Capture device works fine, Tuner device fails. So I wondered if I booted up in Safe-Mode would it still be the same? Safe-Mode everything is A-OK. So I have a clash somewhere. I'll try to nut it out later. Its likely something that is installed on my system pretty early because I now remember the last time I had the BDA's running sweet was just as I was installing a new OS and it was one of the first things I set up.

Hmmm its just like the old IRQ days. So much for "Plug n Play"

UPDATE: Tuner wants IRQ 5, whilst nothing else shows as using 5 theres obviously something hogging it. The solutions so far are ugly, like disabling ACPI should fix it, but that creates new problems (been down that road before)...

This post has been edited by Legacy: Sep 26 2006, 05:38 AM

[renura]

Try this:
Disable Capture device
Install Tuner as capture
Re-install the capture as tuner


Stupid Windows got confused!

[Guest_Legacy_*]

Try this:
Disable Capture device
Install Tuner as capture
Re-install the capture as tuner


Stupid Windows got confused!

Thanks for your help renura (my card is one of the very original you imported all those years ago! ) unfortunately that didn't help. It seems to be some bizaar resource clash of some kind. As the tuner device does indeed work fine on "safe mode" bootup, and probably any of the other twinhan BDA drivers too. Just not in normal mode.

Through trial and error I'm just going to have to try disabling things on bootup until hopefully I get lucky. I will also try moving the card to a different physical PCI slot a few times, but from my understanding of ACPI (Amongst other things, the management of IRQs and resources) the old changing PCI slot trick doesn't necessarily do anything today, its likely the clash will occur on every other PCI slot too.

In any event I'm determined to get this resolved by the weekend and hopefully I can put up some detailed instructions on the WHAT, WHY, HOW of getting this bizaar and seemingly isolated problem fixed for any future victims

[renura]

You can try another thing:)
If you have the original WDM drivers, install those, then update to the BDA drivers from there.
I have seen all sorts of strange things, so I am not surprised one way or the other any more

[Guest_Legacy_*]

You can try another thing:)
If you have the original WDM drivers, install those, then update to the BDA drivers from there.
I have seen all sorts of strange things, so I am not surprised one way or the other any more

Nothing works. Despite it being all perfect in Safe Mode. I'll have to go format again... This OS is only a few weeks old too. I can't work it out.

[BigH]

What viewing/recording software and versions are you using with you VP card ?

This post has been edited by BigH: Oct 2 2006, 09:42 AM

[6hzzz]

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[bear]

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