Win7 & HVR-2250 PCIe card issues

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Originally Posted by remmuh1

I think it is figured out. Cards seem fine in another system. In the other system I did have to force the "multimedia controller" to scan for a driver. It found the proper one & installed the cards. Back to original system. Same failure. So then on the original computer I went back 1 month and did a system restore. After the restore and the restart, I told the "multimedia controller" to find a driver and it found it and installed it this time. Now the tuners are recognized in the Sagetv software and my EPGs are back.

Now my issue seems to be low signal strength. Trying to watch something says "no signal". So I go into each of the tuners and try to preview channels to see the signal strength. It bounces between 6% and 100% and eventually settles down at 6%. Strange thing is there was no change to the antenna, cables, etc. from when it worked a short time ago. Hooked one of the OTA cables directly to a TV and image looked fine. Got to figure out the perceived low signal strength within SageTV software.

My 2250's did the same thing and I ended up buying a 2255 to replace them with as I had never changed a thing either. It did help some by replacing my small coaxial cable and buying a new splitter as well.

I have no idea why the old cards I used to use started losing signal quality unless it was due to the FCC selling off some bandwidth a while back as it seemed to start with 2 channels and went downhill from there