Satellite A500 and TV tuner functionality

HI All
i have a satellite A500 mahcine (PSAR9A-01H001) which supposedly has an inbuilt digital tv tuner in it.
When i first got the machine it had windows 7 home - which was upgraded at work to Win 7 Prof as i needed domain access.
The thing is that there is no sign in the hardware manager of a tv tuner card and WMC reports no card installed.
Ive tried downloading and installing the drivers from the toshiba site, however it just runs and does nothing
Anybody got any clues how to get this thing running (if it in actuality exits)
Thanks

Hi
What do you mean with supposedly? Has your notebook TV tuner or not?
I have tried to find exact notebook specification but unfortunately I didnt find it.
Ive checked Toshiba download page and was not able to find TV tuner driver so I think your notebook model (PSAR9A-01H001) doesn't have it.
By the way: if your notebook has TV tuner on the right notebook side there should be placed TV tuner jack. It should be placed between USB ports and DC in jack.

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