Well, the 6903 card arrived a couple of hours ago, and is now plugged into the same m/b PCI-E slot in which the 6902 was working before I sent it back, and I haven't altered anything in the s/w of DVB Dream, EPS Pro or ProgDVB Pro - but:
- it's not showing up anywhere in Device Manager (ISTR the 6902 showed up in the "Sound, Video and Game Controller" group, but I can't be absolutely sure), and scanning for hardware changes made no difference.
- DVB Dream doesn't appear to show it in the "Devices" section (the only device showing is a "Realtek DTV Filter")
- When ProgDVB is started, it reports "[bda.6ea4 device not started] & "[bda.6ea3 device not started]" and then, in the Settings" it is still showing the 2 tuners on the 6902 and their associated sats under USALS or DiSEqC 1.1 ports
- When EBSPro is started it reports "We haven't found any compatible device Do you want to see our compatible catalogue?"
- Can't get any of the above Apps to actually tune & display channels on a sat (notably 9E, 13E or 28E) at which I know the dish was definitely pointed because I had done that using the SX88 a couple of minutes beforehand.
FWIW, nothing like any of the above messages/lack of messages occured after I removed the DVB Sky card and replaced it with the 6902!
After the first time I saw the above, I reseated the card in the m/b slot but that made no difference, and my initial reaction was (is?) to think that the card is faulty, but obviously I can't be sure.
Thus, maybe someone could suggest answers to the following questions to help me try to pin down the problem:
- Did I forget to "do something" before I installed the 6903 - such as uninstalling all the above s/w and then reinstalling it after the card was installed and the m/c was turned ON?
- Are there any "tests"/checks I could try to see if the PC can recognise that 6903 is actually "present" or to "wake it up"
- Does all the above actually mean that the card really IS faulty?
Thanks in advance.