Having troubles with your TV tuner? Picture quality is bad or there’s no picture at all? Sometimes the solution is easy. Here are some tips to get you started with troubleshooting:
• Examine your signal strength, you may need better antenna or reposition the old one.
• Check the hardware graphics acceleration settings. Try lowering the resolution.
• Go check out if there’s new drivers available for graphic card. Then download them and install. Also check latest software for your TV tuner.
• Look at the task manager’s (ctrl+alt+del) tab Processes. If it shows 100% then it’s probably a decoder issue. Then check if the video card is DirectX 9.0 compatible.
• Temporarily stop the virus scanner. If this solves the problem you should look for different antivirus.
• If you’re having problems while recording, then try to defragment your hard drive.
• Make sure you’re operating system is upgraded with the latest service pack.
• If you have an AGP graphics card, then look at the BIOS and disable fast-write option if it’s available ther.
• Try different USB slot for your TV tuner.
These are just little pointers to begin with. When you’re still in trouble don’t hesitate to contact your TV tuner’s support.
Laptop TV tuner
Having troubles with your TV tuner? Picture quality is bad or there’s no picture at all? Sometimes the solution is easy. Here are some tips to get you started with troubleshooting:
• Examine your signal strength, you may need better antenna or reposition the old one.
• Check the hardware graphics acceleration settings. Try lowering the resolution.
• Go check out if there’s new drivers available for graphic card. Then download them and install. Also check latest software for your TV tuner.
• Look at the task manager’s (ctrl+alt+del) tab Processes. If it shows 100% then it’s probably a decoder issue. Then check if the video card is DirectX 9.0 compatible.
• Temporarily stop the virus scanner. If this solves the problem you should look for different antivirus.
• If you’re having problems while recording, then try to defragment your hard drive.
• Make sure you’re operating system is upgraded with the latest service pack.
• If you have an AGP graphics card, then look at the BIOS and disable fast-write option if it’s available ther.
• Try different USB slot for your TV tuner.
These are just little pointers to begin with. When you’re still in trouble don’t hesitate to contact your TV tuner’s support.