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shabi-ul
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 16:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi

OK im thinking of buying a PCI TV Tuner Card Of Ebay.
It states the minimum system requirements and my computer meets everything but it says that the computer should have a availiable busmaster capable PCI slot. What is a busmaster capable PCI slot and how do I no if I have it or not?

Ive never heard of this before thats why I need some help.

Thank You
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 18:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by shabi-ul:
 Hi

OK im thinking of buying a PCI TV Tuner Card Of Ebay.
It states the minimum system requirements and my computer meets everything but it says that the computer should have a availiable busmaster capable PCI slot. What is a busmaster capable PCI slot and how do I no if I have it or not?

Ive never heard of this before thats why I need some help.

Thank You
It means you need to have an empty PCI slot on your motherboard. And, unless that tuner card is new, there is no way I would buy it off of e-Bay.
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 18:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Neither had I until I googled it just now. Seems it is a means of getting PCI cards to bypass the CPU. What motherboard do you have? We can probably find out if it supports busmaster.
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shabi-ul
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 09:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK I checked using DirectX and here is what it says:

System Manufacturer: Intel D845HV
System Model: HV84510A
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.60GHz
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 09:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Intel's tech support page for the D845HV:
 All of the PCI bus connectors are bus master capable
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shabi-ul
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 09:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK I found on the Intel website the manual for the computer and it says about the motherboard that all of the PCI bus connectors are Bus Master Capable so it shoud work. xD

Anyway can you still tell me what bus master is or means because ive never heard of it before.

Thank You.
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 09:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I believe it's a means of a device plugged into a PCI card to communicate directly with the chipset without requiring the CPU to process any of the information.
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shabi-ul
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 10:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK so basically the PCI Card does all the work xD

Anyway thanks alot for the help.
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 11:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No worries.
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