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Harrar described it perfectly. What your talking about adam is an overall video setting, which is normally quite high by default. Whereas the 'webcam' settings are quite low by default (especially for LAN use). Cheers, Bob W

Open a command prompt and "undelete".. no no no - im kidding, unfortunately your chances are quite slim cctvguardtech. GetDataBack is one of the best/easiest end user recovery tools (imho), but the methods used are almost useless when you have a complete drive filled with video - which is being constantly overwritten. If this footage is serious, head to a drive recovery lab immediately ($$$). Stuffing around with windows tools for recovery can only hamper professional efforts. -Bob W

Rory, I had a GV1240 Combo card working on an Athlon64 3800+ system - With VIA chipset (win Xp - geo ver 7.x) It was a existing install at one of my sites, and heat problems soon lead to an Intel replacement. I don't know how much trouble they went to for a working setup, but it was fully functional when I took the site on board. Plasmaguy - My background in IT has led me to use Intel on all my DVR's for reliability and stability. AMD is fine for a home / gaming PC but the second it becomes business I steer clear of AMD.

I'm going to do pin out tests on some diff Geo tails and post the results. These questions are easily answered/solved for future. I am quite sure that Geo cards are pinned out differently on each series, to keep business close. I have a Geo 1480 / 1240 and 650 cards I can try, i'm 99% the 1240-16 and the 1480-16 are swappable. Vavdagic - The best way to find out is to get the correct tail and test the card with known working inputs. No one on here can tell you if the card works or not, but it doesn't seem right the way it all went down. If he was selling it as "Working second hand" card on ebay - Why didn't he include the correct tail?

Hello, What are some detailed PC specs - IE Chipset / Motherboard?? Also - did this system previously work? If so - what has changed. If not - is this a new system build? New Geo card also? Which 8.3 revision of geovision? Cheers, Bob W

Ya im the same as Rory, Taiwan replied within 4 hours.

I had this problem once in the past, keylogger installed on the system and then wait for them to log in, picks up user / pass (as long as they dont use the keyboard GUI - but honestly - who does?)

out of curiosity, why wouldn't windows backup work?

Can you please let me know the results LittleScoobyMaster?? I also have an older GV650 card - forced to use Geo 6.1.1 to run it. Im in Australia and the taiwain Geovision site mentions an upgrade program for old cards. Ill find out more info when I next speak to them. -Bob W

I know this isnt what your after - but perhaps auto-hide the bar? that would give you an immediate solution. is there any fancy theme running on win7 ? have you tried using the classic theme? It sounds like its probably the webserver stealing focus off the app when it goes full screen - Effectively allowing windows to make it full screen background. Which version GV software are you running? -Bob

Intel hardware will definitely help, AMD is not supported so you could end up chasing your tail needlessly. The reset watchdog jumpers on the GV board allow the card to bridge the RSET pins on the motherboard and perform a hard reboot. I think this is only used when you have set GV to reboot on schedule, and ticked the corresponding box (Allow watchdog reset etc etc). Try removing the jumper lead to remove the possibility that this is the cause of your problem. Have you checked the error log to see if there is any shutdown msg from GV? Also - What updates / configuration have you applied to the Win XP install? (I would recommend using Rorys winxp setup guide - good bare bones layout) Right click my computer > Manage > Event viewer > System Log / Application Log Post any details if GV logs any ERROR codes. -Bob

around the same time the lines started, had you updated geovision software? could be counterfeit if that sounds familiar.

Be careful, One of my clients had an existing 1480 card (in australia) on 8.2 geo system. After I upgraded the systems to 8.3.3 geo started giving the error "counterfeit card". Upgrading to 8.3 generally will update the card firmware to 1.55 (from memory). This is where the counterfeit cards will start to bug out, from the firmware update, which was part of the 8.3 driver install routine. (I was going from 1.42 to 1.55) Now we are chasing the previous dodgy cctv installer to replace with a 1480 geo card as was invoiced. He isn't happy we caught onto his scam, now its going to cost him $1200 AUD. So in short - sounds like a counterfeit card. Dont do drugs kids & dont F*k with counterfeit geovision cards lol

Hi All, When dealing with either Emergency Services or other parties (Lawyers etc etc) that need to view footage, my options are now down to either of two options (Geo 8.3.4.0): Save as an EXE, or burn a copy of "GeoCodecReg" folder from Geovision install (Or /local/ on the install dvd). This allows them to install the codec before viewing the footage. Save as EXE seems to have a quick install for the codec then launch the same avi file. GeoCodecReg seems quite stable and capable also, but requires a seperate install before launghing

I noticed via remote view that the card was screwing up the video inputs heavily. In 1 camera window it would display a spliced version of two camera inputs, so that meant a card fault. This was not displaying in live view on the Geo system, only via remote view and via log view. Card has been removed and replaced with a new 1480A whilst the other one travels around for a few weeks on a warranty journey -Bob W