Drivers won't install

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Jim Strand

SOYO SY-K7V Dragon Plus
AMD Athlon XP-1700+
Windows XP Home Edition

Facing once again a problem installing an ASUS brand TV tuner card.
Although the system recognizes the presence of the card it won't
complete the installation of the drivers. Very curious as to why the
drivers won't install in the first place??

I say problem again as I have managed to get it to work other times.
However after flushing out the "C" drive and reinstalling Windows I
find myself facing this obstacle again. Left myself notes for what I
thought worked previous times to get the drivers installed by that
doesn't seem to apply now.

Out of curiosity, are there any true plug 'n play tv tuner cards that
work well with Windows XP?





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Jim Strand said:
SOYO SY-K7V Dragon Plus
AMD Athlon XP-1700+
Windows XP Home Edition

Facing once again a problem installing an ASUS brand TV tuner card.
Although the system recognizes the presence of the card it won't
complete the installation of the drivers. Very curious as to why the
drivers won't install in the first place??

I say problem again as I have managed to get it to work other times.
However after flushing out the "C" drive and reinstalling Windows I
find myself facing this obstacle again. Left myself notes for what I
thought worked previous times to get the drivers installed by that
doesn't seem to apply now.
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to get proper help you really need to state the error message you got.
for example...
if the drivers were contained within a 'sertup' program you;d need to run
that first
 
to get proper help you really need to state the error message you got.
for example...
if the drivers were contained within a 'sertup' program you;d need to run
that first
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The exact message is:
"ASUS TV Tuner Card Drivers Installation failed"

The drivers are on a supplied CD and are for Windows XP. Checked the
manufacturers website for newer drivers but found they are still the
same.

Downloaded the set just in case mine were somehow corrupt. Still
fails to install.




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The exact message is:
"ASUS TV Tuner Card Drivers Installation failed"

The drivers are on a supplied CD and are for Windows XP. Checked the
manufacturers website for newer drivers but found they are still the
same.

Downloaded the set just in case mine were somehow corrupt. Still
fails to install.
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Once again it appears I may have found a fix but am uncertain exactly
where. I was trying different categories of the recognized hardware
and one came up with a match. Possibly media something.

Anyway, it is now working.





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Jim Strand stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:
Once again it appears I may have found a fix but am uncertain exactly
where. I was trying different categories of the recognized hardware
and one came up with a match. Possibly media something.

Anyway, it is now working.
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It sounds as if you've just loaded the default drivers that have shipped
with Windows. Which is fine. Now, if you have issues down the road...
Just keep that in mind. The drivers that shipped with XP were not
complete. Take nVidia drivers, as an example: no OGL support.

You mentioned that this is an Asus card. I find that interesting, in
that, the only way I can install drivers with my Asus GF3 Ti200 (nVidia),
is by right clicking the executable (detonators) and extracting the files
to a directory. Then, use the 'update driver' function, from Device
Manager (telling XP not to automatically detect and install, and 'I will
specify the location'). I was thinking, for a long time, that this was an
XP glitch. Your problem has made me begin to think that this is more of
an Asus hardware glitch. Guess we will never know. Then, again, it may
be the det's themselves. At least the Asus hardware explanation would,
also, explain why it seems that some people can run the executable and it
installs just dandy. While others, like me, cannot. I believe the error
I got, was exactly the same as yours. But, to muck things up further, I
never had a problem using the executable with the Asus version of the
drivers. Perhaps this was some ploy, by Asus, to keep people from using
the det's. Conspiracy theory, I know. Just haven't thought about this
issue, in a while.
 
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