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SteveC

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Joined: 02/23/2009

I have had an IQ770 for about 14 months.  The TV, (hooked to cable) has a great picture for anywhere from 1 minute to 8+ hours, but usually lasts about 15 min then it gets fuzzy, like it had frequency drift. In fact for those of you who may be olde enough to remember the old dial TV, when you turned the fine tuning dial enough you got the exact hazy staticy picture.  Only way to get back a clear picture is total power off.  all drivers, bios etc have been updated to the latest availible.

This problem existed out of the box,  I had called tech support, and basically I was told to send it in.   Given the intermediate problem I was afraid they would get it and it would work fine and they would send it back "fixed"

We have no over the air signal, so I wanted a tuner with QAM capability.

I bought a new tuner card, but the guts look a little intimidating and the card seems to be under the motherboard. 

I was looking for Tips on how to access the tuner card,  before I  do a brute force removal of everything.

Thanks

SteveC.

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February 23, 2009 3:32 PM

There are some USB alternative and as funny as it may seem, I think this site might use targeted advertising based on keywords because over in the advertising column on the right side of my screen I see a newegg.com ad for a USB tuner card.
Its an alternative to doing brain surgery on your investment.

David

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February 25, 2009 10:54 PM

I gaave it a good shot, but I was beaten.
I took out every screw possible but could not get the mother (board) out.
There seems to be some trick to popping the front cover off. where the DVD buttons and ard reader are. Actually that part moved, it was the part by the front USB reader that was hung up. I am sure there are at least 2 final screws up there tthat would at leaset allow the MB to be lifted enough to get the tuner card out. It is frustrating, as they seem to have built the computer around the tuner card. and there is no reason the back pannel could not just screw off for access to the tuner.

If the back panel of tin wwould comee off it would be easy. but this seems to be spot welded on, I considered cutting it, but did not want to get metal filings all inside the box. Cutting with shears would mangle it and since my wife paid for it and claims it as hers, I dare not alter the cosmttics even if they are in te back and not seen

If anyone knows the secret handshake to get this appart I would appretiate it.

I know I could use a USB tuner, but I was trying to maintain the "all in one" look. RE: wife and cosmetics.

Thanks
SteveC

September 22, 2009 3:49 AM

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View unverified member's comment - posted by briardale

January 6, 2010 7:16 PM

BNBSFSD said: If You would like to know how to remove the front Bezel Please head to My site at www.bitsnbytes-llc.com and sign up on the forum and I'll give you pictures on how to remove it its truly really simple after you see how I did it, You gonna kick yourself for it, Good Luck

I'm a little leery about that.  How about you sharing the pictures and the process with the members here on this forum rather than making them register on "your" site...

 David

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Woohoo! I won my Touchsmart!

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