TBS6981 and MSI A75MA-G55

[zom414]

I currently have the tv card in the PCI-E x16 slot and it works perfectly (without the power cable). I added an nvidia card yesterday so needed to swap the tv card to another slot. I tried it in the x8 slot and also the x1 slot with and without the power cable attached and it wouldn't work. However, as soon as I put it back in the x16 slot it worked. I have the latest BIOS for my board and all the latest drivers. Is the card faulty or is it not compatible with this board?

[SergioDanielG]

This isn't the great solution, only a suggestion. But try removing your card. Then start windows and remove drivers. Reboot and be sure your graphic card work. Shootdown windows and plug your TBS6981 and install drivers.
Are you using windows 7?
Best regards.

[zom414]

I tried your suggestion but it still doesn't work. I am using W7 x64 and using the latest TBS drivers.

[SergioDanielG]

Your card have 2 pci-e 16x and 1 pci-e 1x. Did you try put tbs6981 in the second pci-e 16x?
In the manual ther aren't great information but some motherboard share pci-e bus with vaious pci-e slots and maybe your graphic card are using all pci-e bus.
Also, see that from page 3-6 of motherboard manual

PCI Latency Timer
This item controls how long each PCI device can hold the bus before another takes
over. When set to higher values, every PCI device can conduct transactions for a
longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth. For better PCI performance,
you should set the item to higher values.

Maybe there is the problem.

Best regards.