Hi,
This is my first post on here so let me know if I get anything wrong !

I have a Compaq Evo desktop with XP SP2 installed and ProgDVB V5.15.05.
I have a Pinnacle 4000i dual DVB tuner card installed with latest drivers downloaded from Pinnacle. ProgDVB has recognised the card as "{BDA} Pinnacle Stargate Tuner" and Tuner #1.

I've got a sat cable running from port one on the card directly to the 2nd port on a universal quad LNB.
I have a Pace Sat box attached to port one on the LNB which is working fine (Doesn't have a subscription, just picking up free stuff).

I'm in the UK and have setup the system to point to "Eurobird1 Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D" which I beleive is correct for where I am.

When I do a channel scan I get signal levels between 50 & 70%, but 0% quality.

Any help would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks in advance

osbit wrote:Hi,
This is my first post on here so let me know if I get anything wrong !

I have a Compaq Evo desktop with XP SP2 installed and ProgDVB V5.15.05.
I have a Pinnacle 4000i dual DVB tuner card installed with latest drivers downloaded from Pinnacle. ProgDVB has recognised the card as "{BDA} Pinnacle Stargate Tuner" and Tuner #1.

Did you install and set up the original software first? Did that work as expected?
BDA devices may need some registry entries done, before being available for 3rd party software. Normally the original software installer does this.

I've got a sat cable running from port one on the card directly to the 2nd port on a universal quad LNB.
I have a Pace Sat box attached to port one on the LNB which is working fine (Doesn't have a subscription, just picking up free stuff).

I'm in the UK and have setup the system to point to "Eurobird1 Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D" which I beleive is correct for where I am...

...on.
Your sat box should know.
And you too, if getting free BBC and ITV stations, that are not found on other birds this way.

And the original software might help, if being unsure on some settings. And it may provide some working codecs...
Though, no Q, nothing to decode.

Hi Juergen,
Thanks for your reply on this.

Unfortunatly there was not any software supplied with the card, not even drivers. I had to go find them from the Pinnacle web site.

As you might have guessed already, I'm pretty new to this and this is my first build so I'm not quite up to speed with everything that is required yet.

I'll check and see if I need to make registry updates for the card to work.

I've managed to confirm that I am on Astra 2D so at least I got that right

I might look at investing in another card as I'm starting to think that the problem is here.

Thanks

Read this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=3561
You will find tuning spaces registry entries there, that are necessary for BDA devices.
Normally the original software would create those.

Still no joy I'm afraid

Someone did also send me some Microsoft BDA drivers which I installed and tried, but this did not make much difference (Other that making tha scan take 3 seconds rather than the usual 40-50 seconds it normally takes!).

Thanks again for the help.

You can try last ProgDVB version

I finally managed to find a solution to this !!

The Pinnical 4000i card I had was running with the 3.1.3 drivers. I found version 4.1.4 drivers at http://www.reycom.ch/rmcdownload_mc.asp , downloaded them and all now works fine !

Thanks again for your help.