re: A solution to the "Initial H/W fail" error message Monday, November 14, 2005 at 2:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Chris (2 messages posted) Dear All, One more solution to the "Initial h/w fail" error nessage. It seems that the installed antivirus does not allow the card (or device) to be installed properly. So follow the 5 steps: 1. Uninstall all relative (to the card/device) device drivers 2. Uninstall the antivirus 3. Clean completely the registry from the antivirus entries 4. Install again the card/device 5. Install again the antivirus Chris On Monday, November 14, 2005 at 1:42 am, Chris wrote: >Dear All. > >I was getting the same error message (Initial H/W fail) while I was trying to install >a BT878A PC-TV tuner (PCI) card. After a lot of install-unistall trials, I managed >to make it working by simply DISABLING the "hyper-threading" option from the BIOS >steup. > >Chris > > > Written in response to: A solution to the "Initial H/W fail" error message (Chris: Monday, November 14, 2005 at 1:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Brad: Fri, Oct 25, 2002, 4:31 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (hoppy: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 4:30 am) MpegTV Station Problem (Sanzi: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 2:57 am) re: MpegTV Station Problem (Alejandro: Sun, Dec 22, 2002, 5:41 am) re: MpegTV Station Problem (Bob: Sun, Apr 13, 2003, 11:58 am) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (Ricardo Bernal : Thu, Sep 11, 2003, 10:23 am) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (Carlin: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 12:35 am) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (Andy: Sun, Jan 11, 2004, 5:52 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (Jaz: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 3:51 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (Chip Gowan: Thu, Jun 24, 2004, 6:35 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (John Yowell: Sat, Jul 24, 2004, 10:18 pm) I need the drive Mpeg TV station/USB (Juan Ramirez: Sun, Sep 12, 2004, 6:34 pm) i've found the driver,u can try (k'rul: Sun, May 15, 2005, 5:26 am) A solution to the "Initial H/W fail" error message (Chris: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 1:42 am) re: A solution to the "Initial H/W fail" error message (Chris: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 2:37 am) re: A solution to the "Initial H/W fail" error message (joe: Fri, Sep 1, 2006, 1:33 pm) re: I need the drive Mpeg TV station/USB (nabil: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 2:24 pm) re: I need the drive Mpeg TV station/USB (romero: Wed, Jun 3, 2009, 1:11 pm) re: perdi el CD y no puedo intalar el Mpeg TV station/USB (romero: Wed, Jun 3, 2009, 1:18 pm) Use English on this site (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Jun 3, 2009, 2:06 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (chia: Sat, Oct 2, 2004, 2:18 am) why i cant record audio from mpeg tv? please help. (frank urrea: Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 1:53 am) re: why i cant record audio from mpeg tv? please help. (P.Mihail: Wed, Apr 13, 2005, 4:22 pm) re: why i cant record audio from mpeg tv? please help. (frank urrea: Thu, Apr 14, 2005, 1:48 am) i cant get any audio from mpeg tv? please help. (Faron: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 7:54 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware 'TV Station USB. (pawcio: Sat, Sep 8, 2007, 4:41 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Sergio Parra-Diaz: Thu, Jan 20, 2005, 5:55 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Kristine Plantz: Thu, Feb 3, 2005, 9:28 pm) re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (kabelo: Sat, Mar 19, 2005, 5:28 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum