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Old 08-19-2007, 10:13 AM
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which Twinhan card did I buy, exactly?

So I bought a card from a vendor on ebay- and I'm hving lots of issues trying to get it to work. It savs visionplus on the tuner, has a blue substrate, and conexant 878A chip. Does any one hace a clue?

The file inf for the driver is version 2..23.11

All the thing does is make the PC slow/hang, and DTV-PC runs extremely slow. tseader does not see the card most times. Never have had lnb voltage. Multiple PCs, PCI slots, and installations of windows 2000.

I'm stumped- and I'm an IT guy !

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Old 08-19-2007, 11:44 AM
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So I bought a card from a vendor on ebay- and I'm hving lots of issues trying to get it to work. It savs visionplus on the tuner, has a blue substrate, and conexant 878A chip. Does any one hace a clue?

The file inf for the driver is version 2..23.11

All the thing does is make the PC slow/hang, and DTV-PC runs extremely slow. tseader does not see the card most times. Never have had lnb voltage. Multiple PCs, PCI slots, and installations of windows 2000.

I'm stumped- and I'm an IT guy !

Larry
Is it a full sized card? If it is, I've never seen a 1020, but I seem to remember that the Twinhan 1020 was a blue card. My 1020a cards are red, and they used to talk about the "red" card, and I *think* the blue card.
So MY best guess is that you have a 1020, rather than a 1020a.

However, unless you have the wrong drivers installed, I don't know why TSREADER wouldn't work with it. Most 3rd party programs were originally written for the 1020, and later were upgraded to work with the 1020a, but should still work with the older cards.... I think...

Re making a computer run slow, I don't know what OS you're using, but my card is in a Win2k computer, in which I have 2 regular NICs, a 1020a, a broadlogic card and an Air2PC card, all of which show up as NICs. I've found out that unless I set up the computer to make the primary network as the #1 NIC in the search, that everything slows way down, like 45 second waits when I click on a network share or something. But if I put my primary NIC first, things speed up.
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Old 08-19-2007, 12:38 PM
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OK it's about the size of an older USR PCI modem. At the top is a logo of a little man, the FCC logo, and HM5 94v-0 ( I think thats referring to the fiberglass on the board) and in the lower right is LVER: 3.1

Does tsreader need drivers? If I have the card in w/o tsreader wont start at all. If the drivers are installed it shows up in sound/multimedia etc as DTV Vidoe and DTV audio I think.

What driver set did you use for your 1020A?

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OK it's about the size of an older USR PCI modem. At the top is a logo of a little man, the FCC logo, and HM5 94v-0 ( I think thats referring to the fiberglass on the board) and in the lower right is LVER: 3.1

Does tsreader need drivers? If I have the card in w/o tsreader wont start at all. If the drivers are installed it shows up in sound/multimedia etc as DTV Vidoe and DTV audio I think.

What driver set did you use for your 1020A?

Larry
There is a picture of the 1020 at the TSREADER web page, along with pictures of some other cards. See http://www.coolstf.com/tsreader/twinhan-1020.jpg

Re showing up in Sound/multimedia, as DTV video and audio, yes, although in my computer it is in Sound,video and game controllers rather than multimedia, but same thing. Yes, shows up as DTV. In my computer, it also shows up under network adapters, however I also installed the Vision Data thing which makes the card appear as a NIC. I think the newer software does this automatically, but originally when I first got the card, there was no VisionData thing, so it may not appear as a NIC in your computer. I think it's version 1.9.0.1 in the Sound/video control panel, and version 1.7.0.0 in the NIC section. I'm not sure what the .inf file listed for the file names.

Re TSREADER needing drivers, it needs the card to be registered properly on the PC, and it sounds like it is on yours, UNLESS you've installed more than one version of Twinhan software. If you've done that, and haven't COMPLETELY removed all previous traces of the software, things will be messed up.
But if the card is installed properly, TSREADER should use the drivers already registered, and has a source DLL that was written to handle all the Twinhan cards.

Perhaps you should go to the Twinhan web page and get the new drivers for the card, assuming that you're using what was on the CD. It's possible that TSREADER only works with the card now if you have the new drivers. I originally had drivers that came on the CD, then upgraded by installing the VisionData, then I upgraded by installing new drivers from their web page. I seem to remember some issue about TSREADER compatability with the 1020, but the card is still listed as a supported card. I think the new Twinhan program has drivers for all the sat cards.

I've read posts from people who have had problems with the Twinhan cards, and usually they are cured by switching slots in the PC, but not always.
One thing though. I've found that my 1020a does NOT seem to be compatable with SATA hard drives. Most of the hard drives in my computer are IDE/EIDE things, but I have one SATA drive. I have found that any time I am trying to read or write to the SATA drive, that it will shut down the Twinhan card. I have no idea why. So I'd recommend a computer with only IDE drives, and try exchanging slots and installing the new Twinhan software.
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Searching by "twinhan blue"got me to the same driver set I have. I need to nw seach for twinhan 1020 (not a) to find some drivers that work, apparently.

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Old 08-21-2007, 01:18 AM
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I gave the card to a tech at work so he can replace all the surface mount electrolytics and the 2 thru hole 'lytics.

He said there is a very good chance that will fix it.

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Old 08-27-2007, 09:48 AM
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well. I got it to work. Turns out the caps did not fix it. After a very close inspection, I found 3 traces down near the edge connector that were broken- due to mechanical damage (slipped screwdriver? card was used from Ebay). After a micro-repair, involving a 12X loupe and teeny tiny wire, I was able to repair the traces, and now IT WORKS!

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well. I got it to work. Turns out the caps did not fix it. After a very close inspection, I found 3 traces down near the edge connector that were broken- due to mechanical damage (slipped screwdriver? card was used from Ebay). After a micro-repair, involving a 12X loupe and teeny tiny wire, I was able to repair the traces, and now IT WORKS!

Larry
Neat. That micro repair thing gets harder and harder it seems, at least for people like me with big thumbs and aging eyes.
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