dudhhr wrote on 2024-12-10, 04:20:

I own this Philips TV tuner card labeled "Philips Semiconductors Maui PCI DTV Tuner Board Rev. B", but have been unable to find drivers for it anywhere online; I have found drivers for various other Philips SAA7146-based tuner cards but none work with it. Does anyone here have its drivers, preferably for Windows 98 or 2000?
The card was manufactured in early 2000.

ive got one of these cards, think mine came from a medion pc from 2005/2006, i havent bothered trying to look for drivers for it, as i have a couple of wintv dtv cards which are more well know and easier to find drivers for, i did have a quick look and all i could find was this page though its related to linux.

https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/ch-kernel-dp … ideo/tveeprom.c

it lists your model under "HAUPPAUGE_TUNER" so the phillips card may just be a rebranded Hauppauge wintv card, or at least compatible with some of the old wintv drivers, i dont have my card on hand so cant try it out, if you have any luck with any of the drivers let us know 😀 if you can plug the card into a computer with XP you should be able to check the hardware ID this will at least help find a compatible driver if the ones you try dont work.

What I'm getting is that it may have been sold under the brand eMuzed and also have been preinstalled in Gateway PCs, so there might be something on archived Gateway driver CDs from early noughts.

Find its PCI VEN and DEV identifiers in device manager and then look it up on a site like this to find the brand and model: https://www.pcilookup.com/

DudeFace wrote on 2024-12-10, 10:54:

it lists your model under "HAUPPAUGE_TUNER" so the phillips card may just be a rebranded Hauppauge wintv card, or at least compatible with some of the old wintv drivers, i dont have my card on hand so cant try it out, if you have any luck with any of the drivers let us know 😀 if you can plug the card into a computer with XP you should be able to check the hardware ID this will at least help find a compatible driver if the ones you try dont work.

I tried using one set of drivers that ended up bluescreening my 2000 machine, haven't tried any others yet. I have an XP SP2 cd, but I don't want to partition my disk to have three OSes. I also have a newer PC (i3-530) with a PCI slot running Win10 (and I could install Linux if that's useful), but its cpu cooler is broken.

dudhhr wrote on 2024-12-10, 16:36:

DudeFace wrote on 2024-12-10, 10:54:

it lists your model under "HAUPPAUGE_TUNER" so the phillips card may just be a rebranded Hauppauge wintv card, or at least compatible with some of the old wintv drivers, i dont have my card on hand so cant try it out, if you have any luck with any of the drivers let us know 😀 if you can plug the card into a computer with XP you should be able to check the hardware ID this will at least help find a compatible driver if the ones you try dont work.

I tried using one set of drivers that ended up bluescreening my 2000 machine, haven't tried any others yet. I have an XP SP2 cd, but I don't want to partition my disk to have three OSes. I also have a newer PC (i3-530) with a PCI slot running Win10 (and I could install Linux if that's useful), but its cpu cooler is broken.

theres probably not much point installing linux unless you plan to use it on that, you can plug the card in with win 10 and should still be able to check the hardware ID in device manager, googling the ID will help finding a compatible driver, when ive got some time ill dig my card out, there's probably a set of wintv drivers that should get it working on win98, the medion pc mine came from had XP so those driver if i can find them should work on 2000.

DudeFace wrote on 2024-12-10, 19:57:

theres probably not much point installing linux unless you plan to use it on that, you can plug the card in with win 10 and should still be able to check the hardware ID in device manager, googling the ID will help finding a compatible driver, when ive got some time ill dig my card out, there's probably a set of wintv drivers that should get it working on win98, the medion pc mine came from had XP so those driver if i can find them should work on 2000.

The ID is PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7146&SUBSYS_00011131, which has zero results on Google.

https://admin.pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1131/7146/00001131

Purported to support:
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php … driverid=129795

dudhhr wrote on 2024-12-11, 00:57:

DudeFace wrote on 2024-12-10, 19:57:

theres probably not much point installing linux unless you plan to use it on that, you can plug the card in with win 10 and should still be able to check the hardware ID in device manager, googling the ID will help finding a compatible driver, when ive got some time ill dig my card out, there's probably a set of wintv drivers that should get it working on win98, the medion pc mine came from had XP so those driver if i can find them should work on 2000.

The ID is PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7146&SUBSYS_00011131, which has zero results on Google.

the top link posted by wierd_w looks similar to one of the ones i found here
https://oemdrivers.com/graphics-philips-saa7146-driver
it also list the same device ID, in the INF file it says

"The wizard cannot create exact INF files for all buses and device types.
You may have to make changes to this file in order to get your device to
install. In particular, hardware IDs and logical configurations require
intervention."

it may just be a simple case of pasting your device ID under the "Manufacturer and Models Sections" in the .INF file in place of the "PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7146&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01" thats already there.

the other driver posted by wierd_w is for device ID "PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7134&SUBSYS_20011131", which is for the 7134 model, which i think ive got as i found the driver for it on my hdd, i did check its INF as well and it doesnt list the 7146 model so probably wont work.

i checked a bunch of other drivers INF's and it listed a bunch of different 7146 card ID's except yours, i think you may just be unlucky with the one you've got.
the only other driver i found that looks promising is this one
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=92838
heres the download for it, choose the bottom option, the files called "overlay110dr.zip" not the top option for the dodgy .exe
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php … FEEwhLziXFKR2ce

in the INF it just lists "PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7146", it doesnt have a bunch of different ID's for all the card variants, so this may be a generic driver for all 7146 models.