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<DIV>Howdy,</DIV>
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<DIV>I figure I am SOL, but I wanted to make sure....</DIV>
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<DIV>I have the following MB, MSI K9N Platinum Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP ATX AMD Motherboard -- which has firewire built-in. I have a pvr-500 and pchdtv5500 cards installed. My service is provided by Comcast. I am paying for Digital cable with a HDTV box. Which has channels from 1 - 200+.</DIV>
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<DIV>What works:</DIV>
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<DIV>my pvr-500 works great -- I have it getting basic cable 1 - 78.</DIV>
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<DIV>What doesn't:</DIV>
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<DIV>pchdtv5500 -- I have scanned for channels using QAM-64 and QAM-256; QAM-64 didn't have any channels and every channel on QAM-256 was encrypted (the scan covered from 1 - 160?).</DIV>
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<DIV>firewire -- At no time have I been able to get any show broadcast over firewire, I can however change channels with no problems :} Trying firewire by following the wiki's located here:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Firewire_Priming">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Firewire_Priming</A></DIV>
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<DIV>have only returned "failed" from both P2P and Broadcast.</DIV>
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<DIV>My questons:</DIV>
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<DIV>1. Does anyone have any experience with the firewire ports off of my motherboard?</DIV>
<DIV> -- I'm low on pci ports so I don't think I have a spot to add a firewire card.</DIV>
<DIV>2. How do I scan for channels above the default (using QAM-256) as I think my HD channels are up there...</DIV>
<DIV>3. Did I fail to try something that would help me out?</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not to optimistic, but it doesn't hurt to ask....</DIV>
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<DIV>Nasa</DIV></body></html>