I got a tv tuner card for my pc… I bought it used with no manual. I installed it and it seems to work fine except for one exception. NO SOUND. I bought a 1/8 in phono to 1/8 inch phono jack and hooked it up to the tuner audio and the sound card line in… still no go. Tried many different configurations that way. Still no go
700mHz Duron.
256Mg ram.
TNT2 Ultra 32meg Video (detonator drivers).
Built in Sound card Via’97 Audio Controller (latest viatech 4in1 drivers).
STB TV and FM Tuner Card PCI w/3DFX software.
Any thoughts? This is my first Tuner card attempt so any input would be appreciated.
Go to your multimedia control panel (Win98, not sure what other OSs might have) or volume control, and make sure that the line in control is activated and is not turned all the way down.
I googled for ‘STB’ and found several pages of listings - try narrowing down the search using ‘Advanced Search’.
Have fun, but beware - the computer really becomes a timesucker. Mine is always on unless I’m using the scanner. (There’s another timesucker for ya.)
One thought. It may be in conflict with another audio device. I recently built a system and after installing an audio card it failed. I tried everything in my bag of tricks to solve this but then, while reading the motherboard user’s guide I found out it had a sound card built onto it. I then simply went into CMOS and disabled the it. Now the more superior card works fine.
-Waneman
I have two PCs with tuners, a 3dfx V3-3500 and an ATI AIWPro, and both require that I plug a jumper cable from the tuner to a header on my sound card and tell the tuner software which mixer port it is using. On most tuner cards, you can also use an external connection to the line-in jack on your sound card or on-board motherboard header. You still have to tell your tuner software what connection you’re using, though. If you didn’t get such a jumper cable, most computer shops can sell you one. Ensure that the audio header on the tuner is the same as that on the back of your CD-ROM drive (and, using on-board audio, that one should also be the same connector as the CD-ROM and the tuner board) and tell the guy at the shop you need an ATAPI to ATAPI CD-ROM audio cable. If the tuner card has two audio connectors, one is a pass-through for your CD-ROM drive. Connect the audio cable from the CD-ROM to the tuner and the tuner to the sound hardware’s CD-ROM header.
The only resource conflict possibility is an IRQ problem. if you’re getting video, and audio using a seperate amp, you’re probably OK with the IRQ.
The downside of having the 3dfx/STB product is that there is no technical support so gettig a manual is now pretty near impossible. nVidia now owns 3dfx and provides nothing online beyond an email address no one answers and downloadable drivers.
I do not have a video card so this is just me guessing: If the video part of the card is working, chances are the audio is working too. While the video comes out as a digital signal through the bus, the audio probably comes out as an analog physical signal which you have to physically connect to an input in the audio card. You probably need a cable similar to the one which connects the CD-ROM drive to the audio card. Do you have the video card audio output connected to the audio card input?
There are three ways to get sound in from your card. The first is the way you’re doing it, stereo-mini cable (is it stereo?) going from audio-out on the tuner card to line-in (or microphone, i suppose) on the sound card. Another (perhaps preferable) way is to connect a cable from your tuner card to the AUX port on your sound card internally, like your CD-ROM drive should do now. (In fact, if your AUX port is already occupied by your CD-ROM, some tuner cards have a pass-through thing.) The third way is only handy if you have a TV close: run RCA cables to the back of your computer and use a RCA to stereo-mini adapter to plug it into your line-in port.
Also, make sure that you’re telling it the right port in the TV software.
Its been awhile but I just want to express my thanks to everyone, especially sewalk and andrew dupont. I indeed need to use another cdrom audio cable. I had to connect from my cdrom to the tvtuner then out from the tvtuner to the sound card.
