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So after spending a lot fo time with tech support because new systems with older cards keep crashing, I have finally come to the conclusion, and this is directly from Geovision: All cards that are not of the B type or newer will not work on any of the newer generation motherboards using Intel chipsets with Sandy Bridge. So basiclly if you have a perfectly working 2 year old GV-800 card, you can not use it with a new computer. What a scam. Then when I asked Geovision about using these cards with newer AMD systems, they said they do not reccommend AMD, only Intel. Funny, you can only recommend Intel (which is NOT compatible). Seems a little bit rediculous to me. So my question is has anyone tried these older cards with newer AMD systems? I am not talking really old cards either, THIS APPLIES to any cards over a year old that can still run version 8.5. I was told that the easiest way to fix the systems was to buy new cards at $750 a pop when the old ones work just fine. Scam. Just like the S1/SP1 chipsets a few years ago that forced people to buy new cards. Anyways if anyone else can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Thanks.

My advice, do an FBR of the settings and reinstall windows. It doesn't take that long and ensures everythign is up to date and running smoothly. The FBR works pretty good.

Good plan, there are not really an HD covert cameras out there. Let us know if you have any success.

I believe it is a bit of a "Conspiricy" that these new motherboards don't work with the older cards. I have several customers who have had systems die and when we replace the PC it wouldn't work, after a TON of hours or troubleshooting and tech support with USAvision, we were told that the older cards (PCI, not the newer PCI-x) will not work with newer chipsets and windows 7 64 bit and the solution was to throw away the perfectly good Geovision cards and buy a new one. I think this is garbage, Geovision is just choosing not to make working drivers so we have to buy more outdated analog capture cards, much like they did a few years ago. I found some older boards and cpus and they all work fine with the cards. I know analog is on the way out but making customers buy more capture cards is just not fair when the hardware is still fine and in some cases only a couple years old.

So just an update. Tried some newer AMD boards .... FAIL. Looking at older 775 boards now. Very frustrating they don't have drivers that work for modern motherboards. I am surprised how willing everyone is to accept this as "ok". To me it seems like they are forcing us to buy more outdated analog camera cards just to keep existing customers up and running.

I just built a system with 2 NV6480 cards and tried installing version 7.3.0.0013 and it comes up with an error everytime (error 2 SDK) and then loads up the live view for an NV5000 card even though the desktop shortcut says 6000 express. Spoke to tech support this am and I guess there are issues with the new version and the NV6480 express cards....... darn. hopefully a patch will be out soon.

OK, I posted this in another thread but maybe this will gather more attention to a major issue and then geovision will do somethign about it. I am STILL waiting for a Blackberry app that actually works. Its been over a year since Geovision actually had a working Blackberry app. In canada all the business owners have Blackberries or Iphones. Sure Android/Windows phones are cool, and it's great they made an app, but the people who actually OWN the business's with camera systems and who actually want to watch their cameras all use either an Iphone or Blackberry. Geovision, are you listening???????? MAKE a working Blackberry app, and one that works on their NEW software version not the old one.

Still no progress on a Blackberry App that works with current Blackberries. Does anyone else find they have a growing list of customers with these phones who have been waiting a long time for a working BB app? I keep telling customers they have to wait, but I really don't understand why Geo doesn't just get it working either with an app or right through the BB 6.0 browser.

I posted below about not working on the Blackberries, but Geo also doesn't work, by default on android phones and on a Mac computer. Anyone know a good reason why? WHY does geo not have working apps for these systems? Not EVERYONE uses a Windows computer (Mutliview doesn't even work on a netbook due to screen resolution being less then 1024x768) to access their cameras. I just kind of find it frustrating because 10 years ago we started using Geo because they were on the cutting edge and it really seems like they are falling to the wayside in terms of cross platform viewing. EVERY cheap cheap cheap DVR can be viewed from an Iphone,BB or mac. Geo, please have a rep respond and let us know that these issues are being worked on.

Version 4.5 is pretty outdated software for the BB.

When I talked to Geo, they said they do not support the Blackberry OS 5 which is why all these phones don't work. But now BB is out with OS 6 and there is still no sign of an app. It just stinks that a $199 no name DVR from China can work on a BB and Geo can't. Also I have tried the following BB models: Curve, Curve 2, Bold 9000, Bold 9700, Storm and Torch on all the major carriers in canada using different ports (Bell, Rogers, Telus) and none work.

I am STILL waiting for a Blackberry app that actually works. Its been over a year since Geovision actually had a working Blackberry app. In canada all the business owners have Blackberries or Iphones. Sure Android/Windows phones are cool, and it's great they made an app, but the people who actually OWN the business's with camera systems and who actually want to watch their cameras all use either an Iphone or Blackberry. Geovision, are you listening???????? MAKE a working Blackberry app, and one that works on their NEW software version not the old one.

I'm located in Canada and have tried to get 4 different Blackberry's to work with the BBview with no luck. 2 of the phones were on Rogers and 2 are on Telus. Has anyone else got this program working? I always get a TCP error, even on wifi. Thanks.

So I have a customer who wants to be able to view his cameras on his new Blackberry world Edition phone. I know the phone is 3G capable and geovision has a 3G software package, but I can't test it. Anyone tried this?

The VSM server will do everything you just mentioned. Cheap too.

I spent quite a while on this and could not figure out how to remove this, anyone have any suggestions?

I have found the same thing. Sometimes if you give it more time to connect it will work better but I have had several complaints from customers about it. One customer could never get more then 1 camera to connect, rebooting his modem fixed that.

Once again, many customers are calling with dipmap problems. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Why can't they get it working properly? IS it that hard to configure this with some reliability for the thousands of customers? Very dissappointed!

OK, here is a great question for everyone. How can you run Geovision as a service of windows? I have a system that needs to be able to boot up and start the camera software but still have windows locked, so no employee can access it. Geo only runs once windows boots up and if tyou need to log into windows, if there is ever a power failure or reboot your screwed. I know how to have windows auto log in, but then there is still access to the buttons while Geo is loading. It security is at it's highest for this customer so if anyone knows or has ideas, please share them. For now I created a basic user account with no rights at all and I have Geo auto log in to full screen and since they have no access to any cameras, it's just a black screen. OK, but not ideal.

I have a customer with a GV800-16 running 8.2 who just purchased a 1TB External HDD. They want to have all the videos record on both the HDD's in the DVR as well as on the USB drive so they can take the USB drive home and review all of the videos without haveing to go through the internet which is just to slow at this site. Is this possible? How? I don't want it to be used as a regular storage drive but instead as a backup or duplicate of what's on the storage drives.

Go with a dual output Video Card and hook both of the monitors up via DVI or HDMI (Or even VGA). This will give a nice picture on both LCD's and you could control what is on each screen, playback, IP Matrix, etc... Unless these two screens are going to be located far away and will ONLY be for live viewing, then I'd use composite.

I have been having a LOT of problems with the dipmap serviceand have had to re-register several accounts that should have been working fine. They need to make sure this is working better.

Just installed 8.2 Some new features that are useful like PIP, PAP and also the Multiview is much improved, so when you click on a single camera it will automaticlly increase the resolution to 640x480, so the remote viewing is clearer, and the PIP even works remotely. BUT...... I installed it last night and now every time I run the 8.2 Multiview, it ask for an id/pw and then locks up my whole computer. If I close it I can still log in with 8.12 Multiview. Weird. Still haven't played much more then that, but I am dissappointed about the multiview.

I just installed 2 of the 6480 cards in a system and got the errors again even with the latest version. I had to go back to an older version to get it to work. Doesn't Avermedia test these things? It causes installer like us to spend hours and hours troubleshooting to find out it's a software problem.

PM me, I have a NV3000 that was only used one day to test out the software then I ordered 4 of the GV6480 Express cards. Its basiclly new in a box, I'll even throw in a remote control. I'll sell it for cheap if you are interested.