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From: "Steve Dunn" <steve@backroom.tm>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc
Subject: Re: MAJOR Hauppauge problem!
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:41:15 +0100
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I bought one of those cards ages ago.  With most things, it had the 95 logo on
the box, along with logos for Intel, Daz Ultra, Green Flag Breakdown, and
Persil.  Like most things I buy, I ripped it out of the box, looked at the
floppies, looked for the words NT, but to no avail.  Also like most things, I
went straight onto the internet to download the NT drivers, BUT THERE WERE NONE
!

This is just a warning to other NT user(s) that no drivers are planned for us.
Instead, spend the money on a stong bit of rope, a nice solid nut and bolt and a
masonary drill, and concoct a ceiling cradle to lower and raise the telly
in-between coding.

Steve 'bruised head' Dunn.


>Erk!
>
>No sooner do I finally get my Hauppauge 406's settings all fine and
>dandy than the  &*$%ing thing goes belly-up on me! OK, here's a rough
>description of the problem:
>
>The picture in the WinTV window (or, if in full-screen TV mode, the
>whole picture) has suddenly become unbelievably bright. It's as if
>somebody had set the brightness waaaay up as the default setting. I can
>reduce the brightness, sure, but I have to get it down to about 0 to
>make out what is on the screen, and no amount of fiddling about with the
>colour or contrast can prevent the picture looking, well, shite. It is
>"absolutely not acceptable", as my teachers at school used to say (not
>infrequently)...
>
>The rest of my monitor's picture is fine - the rest of Windows is OK and
>my 3DFX games are fine, too. I get the same effect whether I connect to
>the card via the S-Video or phono socket, and using it as a TV. It's
>completely useless! I haven't installed anything since I last used the
>card and it was fine then. Oh, except for the PC Forsaken demo which
>came on one of those natty mini-size CDs (£1.99 in EB - v. nice!) and I
>refuse to believe that was responsible coz I've had DirectX 5 installed
>for months now.
>
>2 days ago, everything worked fine(ish). If you look at the thread
>below, you'll see I had some flicker in the picture - do you think it's
>likely I got a dodgy card, thus the early flickering problems and now
>this indicate I should get down to the shop and exchange it pronto?
>
>Has anyone had this problem and got any advice? When people say they
>"couldn't get the card to work" do they mean it just wouldn't work at
>all, or they had picture distortion/ washout big-time like me?
>
>Nick "apologetic and sick of asking for help" F
>
>PS Before anyone says, I *have* mailed Hauppauge but they haven't been
>much use previously, claiming the 406 never supported NTSC etc
>------------------------------------
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