FX5200 Personal Cinema TV Problem

TV Not working . No VCR no TV no S-Video
Please Help
I install new Nvidia drivers, and all works ok (exclude remote)
But WinDvr no screen any programs no from TV no from S-video and no from VCR. I connect my VCR to VIDEO-IN connector and if i change source to S-Video or Composite, or TV i see black screen and not more.
I not have any error messages when i start WinDVR
And i think that problem in drivers or in card(physical)
Please Help !!!! S.O.S !!!!
thanks

I`m no expert on this but I`ve had similar problems with my FX5200-128 Personal Cinema card which I have managed to solve. These have included TV picture without sound, unreliable TV capture and channel selection problems. It seems that to get good capture you must start off with a strong aerial signal for the card to work best. This is especially true if you experience poor channel lock.
If you have TV picture without sound then IMO this points to some conflict/incompatibility with video and audio on the PC. I started with simple onboard audio and only managed to get TV sound after adding a cheap SoundBlaster PCI card (make sure the onboard audio device is turned off in BIOS afterwards to avoid problems).
I also met a curious problem with TV Standard selection. I live in Greece and the TV Standard used here is PAL-B. The FX5200 setup insisted that this should be SECAM. This caused a lot of grief and the only way I`m able to get good capture is if I use nearby Turkey - which the settings happily accept as PAL-B. This is covered briefly in the User notes somewhere. So, depending where you are, you may have to log to some neighbouring country to achieve optimum capture.
Hope some of this helps.

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HARDWARE
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RAM: 2x 512MB Infineon PC3200 DDR
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Norton SystemWorks 2003
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Try the video card on another machine.
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System 1:
=======
Motherboard: MSI KT6V-LSR
CPU: Athlon XP2500+
RAM: Infineon 512MB PC3200 DDR
HDD: 80GB Maxtor
CDRW: MSI 52x32x52 CDRW
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System 2:
=======
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CPU: Athlon XP2500+
RAM: 2x Infineon 512MB PC3200 DDR
HDD: 120GB Maxtor
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I`m no expert on this but I`ve had similar problems with my FX5200-128 Personal Cinema card which I have managed to solve. These have included TV picture without sound, unreliable TV capture and channel selection problems. It seems that to get good capture you must start off with a strong aerial signal for the card to work best. This is especially true if you experience poor channel lock.
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I also met a curious problem with TV Standard selection. I live in Greece and the TV Standard used here is PAL-B. The FX5200 setup insisted that this should be SECAM. This caused a lot of grief and the only way I`m able to get good capture is if I use nearby Turkey - which the settings happily accept as PAL-B. This is covered briefly in the User notes somewhere. So, depending where you are, you may have to log to some neighbouring country to achieve optimum capture.
Hope some of this helps.

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Thank you for contacting MSI Technical Support.
There is no need to install nvidia standard VGA driver (eg . 56.64 or 53.03) . Therefore, please try to reinstall OS, for Personal Cinema FX5200-VT128 driver, please refer to http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/dr...ail.php?UID=459 for driver and patch and capture driver.
Thank you for supporting MSI product. Please feel free to let us know if you still have any further issues or inquiries.
Best regards,
MSI Technical Support
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P4 3GHz Prescott
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