szap-s2 works, scan-s2 does not [SOLVED]

[cody]

hi Euge,

please, there is no need to hurry. i guess you can at least use the hard drive from the old Windows computer you found to attach it to your current computer with PCI-Express slots and test in Windows. i'm really suspecting it's as simple as hardware fault that makes data transfer unstable and we will just need to replace the board, but it's good to confirm it first, because otherwise it's waste of time since you need to wait at least 2 weeks - one week we to receive back you current board and one week you to get the new replacement board.

regards,
cody

[Euge]

Hi cody,

Thanks for the suggestion, I've just checked the PC in the garage and it hasn't got a PCI-E slot so I'll need to swap the hard drive across to try out the card in Windows sometime this weekend. I'll let you know how I get on. Enjoy your conference.

Regards,

Euge

[cody]

Enjoy your conference.

thank you, likewise!

[Euge]

Hi cody,

I managed to get an additional HD installed in my mediacentre and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP1. Once booted up I installed the tbs6981 drivers from the installation CD and also installed DVBDream.

Running DVBDream and selecting an input device caused a BSOD crash of Windows XP - I tried this several times and the same result.

I wiped the HD and made a fresh install of Windows 7. Again, I booted up and installed the tbs6981 drivers and DVBDream. This time the software runs okay but no luck with scanning. See attached screens:







Does this look like a hardware issue with the card? Are there some other settings I need to try under Windows 7 to confirm a hardware problem?

Regards,

Euge

[Euge]

Hi cody,

Hope the conference went well. Any ideas on my last post? I'm presuming now that I probably have a hardware problem?

Regards,

Euge

[steven]

Hi Euge
Cody because some of personal reason will be duty off some day,when he come back ,i will mention him about this
thanks

[Euge]

Hi steven,

Thanks for the update.

Regards,

Euge

[iffel]

Just got my card and notice the same, zap works scan doesn't.

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% szap-s2 -a 0 -H -c astra_szap-s2.conf -S0 "BBC"
reading channels from file 'astra_szap-s2.conf'
zapping to 3 'BBC':
delivery DVB-S, modulation QPSK
sat 1, frequency 11597 MHz V, symbolrate 22000000, coderate auto, rolloff 0.35
vpid 0x00a3, apid 0x005c, sid 0x2742
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 1f | signal  74% | snr  87% | ber 0 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK

BBC:11597:v:1:22000:163:92:10050


and the scan:

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% scan-s2 -a 0 -s 1 astra_scan-s2.conf
API major 5, minor 1
scanning astra_scan-s2.conf
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder DVB-S  11597000 V 22000000 5/6 35 QPSK
----------------------------------> Using DVB-S
>>> tune to: 11597:vC56M2O35S0:S0.0W:22000:
DVB-S IF freq is 1847000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
dumping lists (0 services)
Done.

S1 11597000 V 22000000 5/6 35 QPSK


Any progress on your end Euge?

[Euge]

Hi,

I'm afraid not - I've had no further luck with this and am hoping for a response (to my post with the screenshots) from cody at some point.

Regards,

Euge

[iffel]

for met it is working now.
Did a new install of debian squeeze and compiled the drivers. Scanning is working and giving result.
Now, trying to get this to work with a xen kernel...