Vista Media Center Does Not Recognize My Tv Tuner

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Vista Media Center Does Not Recognize My Tv Tuner

#1 godzilla15

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Posted 04 September 2008 - 07:50 PM

I have a Dell Inspirion 531 with Vista-32 bit. It came pre-installed with a TV tuner card. The card worked fine for about a year and then suddenly stopped working. I have tried to update the driver for it but no year can I find what it is called. I can not find it in the device manager. What would it be called in the device manager, so I can be sure I didn't miss it? Is their any reason it wouldn't be in the device manager other than the tuner being broken? Is their any other way to determine what tuner card I have? Thanks for any help.

#2 garmanma

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Posted 04 September 2008 - 08:13 PM

Dell lists 6 tv tuner cards for your model. You might enter the sevice tag number found on the back of the computer to narrow it down
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...tid=&impid=
You can also try S.I.W.
http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html
or Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
to see what thet list as your model of card

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