Anybody recognize this DVR card pulled from a dead computer?
Its 16 channels. The computer is dead with multiple issues. Thought I would drop the card in another computer if I can figure out what software to run with it.
Lacking more info, you'll have to spend several hours scrolling thru search results for "PMC video capture card".
I had to do that several years ago for a 4 channel capture card. Finally found a picture of one very close, went to the Taiwan website and downloaded a driver that (mostly) worked.
Ended up trashing the card and repurposing the computer.
technomaNge
Is this alarm related?
Bob,
Looks like there are a lot of similar cards out there when searching Google Images for "techwell tw2804 16 channel dvr card" or similar searches, but none that I found that actually look the same. However, any of the web sea rch results seem to point to either ebay or the sort of companies you get b roken-english spam from... "DVr for only $8 you buy"
I figured the "4" in "TW2804" had something to do with 4 channels, so they put 4 chips in to make a 16 channel DVR card.
I saw in one post that Techwell is now called Intersil...
When I was still building PC-based DVR's (I delusionally got into this work to get away from things like building computers), I would leave all the CD 's inside the case, taped to the bottom below the motherboard. This made i t very easy to format the drive and start over if needed. If only everyone did this.
Either way, I would just throw it out. Why have a one-off DVR out there?
- Chris
Much more so than your stupid ascii art.
Much more so than your stupid ascii art.
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If the hard drive hasn't failed then you could put that in another PC and either identify the DVR software program or in most cases that I have seen the installation software for the DVR application is located somewhere on the drive.
Doug
I don't recognize it. What I would do is slap it in a working computer and let plug & pray do it's thing. You can get a PCI device number and look it up in the PCI database to get the manufacturer & part #. That should lead you to a software package.
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