--On den 28 augusti 2003 17:55 +0200 Andreas Vierengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...The cards seem to get unstable, if it get's not exactly 12V power supply.
Is this a known stability-problem with dvb-s cards ? What can I do to cure the problem ?
I had (and maybe still have a bit of) that problem with a DVB-T card.
My first experiment was to solder some capacitors to the 12V pin on an old ethernet and insert that in a slot next to the DVB-T card. I think that helped a little, but it doesn't seem to make any difference anymore after the steps below.
The next thing was to disconnect a fan that was fed trough the mother board and put it on a power connector from the power supply of its own. That helped a lot.
The third step was to buy another power supply which had a more stable and higher 12V output. The old one had 11,8 V or something like that.
After those modifications it works quite good, though I still have intermittent problems on some channels that I haven't been able to solve yet.
I have a dell modified intel motherboard with a P3 600.
/ragge
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