new lap top
 

I have a new lap top its a asus a7jc.
it has a built in tv tuner which I'm having trouble getting to work.
Just noticed on the black screen on start up it says.
pxe-261 media test failure check cables .
Would this be a hardware problem???
if so had i better get them to sort it as I don't want to mess with it.
thanks in
advance
tick

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Well firstly have you plugged in the aerial? and secondly are you sure it has the built in tuner and that its not just an option on your model?
I know both of those questions sound very patronising but I have had experience of both causing people problems in the past.

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Does the laptop boot?

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I wouldnt have thought a tv card would be doing anything till windows starts up? Have you tried to use it?

TV card does look liek its standard

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Analog/Digital TV Tuner & Remote
it has this
it works fine apart from the tv tuner

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This is probably the Boot From LAN feature just warning you the the wired LAN isn't connected (there is no rj45 cable plugged in) and is nothing to worry about. You could go into the BIOS and disbale this feature if you wish and that message should disappear. You TV tuner is an inbuilt AverMedia Hybrid (analog and Freeview). Does it appear correctly under sound devices in the control panel? When you say you can't get it to work, what does it actually do? Give you an error? Have you run the channel scan in the TV program that comes with the machine?

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yes it appears in the control panel and says it is working fine.
Chanel scan never finds any and says check your Ariel which i have

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what you checked the aerial with? do you have free view that works?

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is this a roof top or internal arial?

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its a internal one that came with the machine

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well im hardly surprised you aint got any channels :) try your roof aerial see if you get anything. Have you scanned for analogue or just digital?

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thought the idea was to be able to watch tv on a lap top >
not lug a free viev box about ?
only scaned for digital

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well digital tv needs a good signal if yoru in a strong area you will sometimes get channels using an internal aerial but I wouldnt imagine there is many areas that would give you free view, In weaker signal areas you need a full wideband aerial.
You wont need a free view box but you may need to strap an aerial to your back ;)

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have looked on free viev advice sites and it says im in a strong aria

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try it connected to the roof aerial then to test

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opps dont have one

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does any one know if you can get a Ariel that works with a lap top

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A good indoor aerial will work. One like the Telecam TCE2000 - Argos 534/2000 (£10) - I have this running indoors for my PC and my freeview.

This is blatantly signal strength issues, and your Media Test Failure just means it's trying to boot from LAN. Pointless...

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thanks for that will try a diff ariel:;)

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See, exactly what I was getting at. Now I'm off to bed!

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so im slow at this time of night
[ well all the time }:dunce:

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Try your main house aerial that you know pics up freeview well.

Then buy a high boosted indoor aerial. the cheap ones will give you no decent picture quality whatsoever.

I bought one of these tuners for my sis who went off to uni but found signal problems even with a high boosted aerial a problem. also slow software and occassional stuttering / stopping. Sent it back in the end.

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;) hooray tv on lap top.
any one recommend a good indoor aerial.
Running on a £ 9.99 one at the moment but it work fine .;)
Thanks all

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That telecam will be fine, it's probably the best indoor you can get. You might want a booster though. Just don't get one with one of those daft gain controls because they don't work and read the damn dB ratings carefully.

Remember a booster can't improve on a crap signal only a weak signal, if your signal is noisy the booster will amplify the noise, as well as the signal, and will introduce its own noise.

Also remember decibels are exponential so a 1 dB rise is a tenfold difference.

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cheers will try with a boster have one laying about some where.
Will check cuboard under stairs.
thanks for the help
tick

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Sure about that? :confused:

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They're definitely exponential.