Problem with Avermedia PCI - Solved

[whoololon]

A few days ago I thought I would convert the Hi8 tapes to digital format before the camera completely breaks down.
The thing is that I have an Avermedia PCI capture card and I decided to connect it to a GA-K8ns with an Athlon 3200+ and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM (I had two, but one broke just when I was about to test it).
After a lot of struggling, since the antivirus detects a trojan in the executable of the original disk, it turns out that when installing the driver, the computer restarts.
It asks for the directory of the drivers, creates the restore point, and in the second it has me restarting again.
I think it may be the card itself that is faulty, and when it activates it short-circuits and the motherboard detects it and restarts, but as it is full of cards (an IDE controller for a disk I have, the SB Audigy2, and now this one) maybe the power supply, a rather old NOX Urano 500W, is the one that falls short.
The computer still has the 32-bit WinXP that I installed it with.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[cobito]

My experience with analog video capture devices is that they are very frustrating in every aspect: both at the hardware and software level. My advice is that you disable the integrated sound card and remove the Audigy.

[Fassou]

Try another PCI slot, in case the one you're using has the IRQ shared.

What @cobito says is the quick way to do it

Back in the day, if you couldn't change PCI slots, we'd talk about freeing up IRQs, disabling things in BIOS, like integrated sound, serial ports, parallel... xD

Good luck with that :fingers_crossed:

[whoololon]

Thanks to both of you for answering.
That card was connected and working without problems, but I had to choose between an IDE controller for an HDD I had lying around, or the capture card.

When I have time I'll try another one by removing the controller... and maybe I'll remove the Audigy and install it in the one I have now.

Greetings.

Update: Well in the end, after messing around with the cards and the PCI sockets, it turns out that it was the RAID controller that was causing problems. I've managed to install the capture card and its relevant software and we'll see how it goes. Many thanks guys. :hugging:

[cobito]

I just saw the edition with the solution. Defective hardware can make you lose a lot of time. There have been many times when a problematic network or sound card have made me think that the RAM was damaged or that the graphics memory was more broken than fixed.