Thread: how do you use the Twinhan 102g under Windows 7?

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

I installed the card, Windows detected it and loaded a driver. So having read here that it works under Windows Media Center, I tried that. It detected the card, but I didn't see anywhere to put in my diseqc switch information, so I couldn't watch anything that way. Later, I did a google search on "media center diseqc" and I came up with this page
DiSEqC explained... - Rathe's Media Center Blog

which shows that it has a diseqc selection dialog. So I tried to run Media Center's setup again, and this time it won't even let me set up the card at all. After I select the satellite option, it goes straight to asking me to test my STB's connection. The option to select a direct connection or an STB didn't appear!

I tried TSReader. This works, but it's an awkward way to select channels, to say the least. I had hoped to use something more user-friendly.

So I tried loading the TV program from the CD that came with the card. It BSOD'd. Not the program itself, mind you, but the installer! So I downloaded what appeared to be the latest version from Twinhan's website. That installed BSOD'd too. So I tried it in XP compatibility mode. This time it installed. But when I run the program, even if I put it in compatbility mode too, I can't see any text in any drop-down lists, and it tends to give me a large number of "!" alert dialogs that don't show any text either!

Finally I tried ProgDVB. Everything works fine through selecting the card, selecting my switch, and assigning satellites to my LNBs. But then I hit OK on the diseqc setup after entering all that, and the setup window comes right back up again.

I guess I need a walk-through of how to set up anything. Either that, or nobody is using Windows 7, but people here say they are, and they're only reporting problems with the 64-bit version. I'm using the 32-bit versrion.

Did you load a WDM or BDA driver? If its working with Tsreader, its probably WDM since that app can't use BDA drivers. I know nothing about windows 7 but I'm pretty sure Windows media center looks for BDA drivers.