Tuner disconnected errors on my HTPC
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:16 am
It's been slowly getting more flaky as time goes on. I built this machine in fall of 2009 and while I have expanded the storage since then, I have had zero hardware failures. I also have never rebuilt the machine/OS. We don't use it as much as we used to but when we turn the TV on I always see all of these buffered error messages about unable to record shows due to tuner missing or disconnected.
As a reminder, I have a dual tuner ATSC card in the machine. PCIe. Win 7 Ultimate.
Restarting the machine does seem to restore functionality but I don't know for how long. It might be less than a week which is unsat.
I did install serverWMC to support the Kodi client in our bedroom. So in one fell swoop I did the following:
- Disabled serverWMC for the time being (it accesses the tuners for live TV capability so there is a hook there)
- Uninstalled the driver and software for the tuner card and shut down
- Opened case, reseated tuner card
- Rebooted, reinstalled driver (the driver that windows picked is 2009 so I suspect nothing more recent is available but I can look)
- Made sure a recording started and it did
So as time goes on, we will see if one or all of these things resolved the issue. I could have a hardware issue with the tuner. I suppose the OS could need to be rebuilt though I think that is less likely to cause this specific problem. If it seems solid I will re-enable serverWMC I guess. We don't use Kodi much in the bedroom so there's that.
As a reminder, I have a dual tuner ATSC card in the machine. PCIe. Win 7 Ultimate.
Restarting the machine does seem to restore functionality but I don't know for how long. It might be less than a week which is unsat.
I did install serverWMC to support the Kodi client in our bedroom. So in one fell swoop I did the following:
- Disabled serverWMC for the time being (it accesses the tuners for live TV capability so there is a hook there)
- Uninstalled the driver and software for the tuner card and shut down
- Opened case, reseated tuner card
- Rebooted, reinstalled driver (the driver that windows picked is 2009 so I suspect nothing more recent is available but I can look)
- Made sure a recording started and it did
So as time goes on, we will see if one or all of these things resolved the issue. I could have a hardware issue with the tuner. I suppose the OS could need to be rebuilt though I think that is less likely to cause this specific problem. If it seems solid I will re-enable serverWMC I guess. We don't use Kodi much in the bedroom so there's that.