Avermedia Tv tuner not detected in M4600's mini PCI-E slot

Hi everyone,

I tried posting this in different forums about a year ago and did not get any response.

I bought a mini PCI-E Avermedia TV tuner (model A317) to use in my Precision M4600, but the card is not being detected (not showing in device manager and no automatic driver install prompts within Windows). The card is being detected and works fine in another laptop of mine (ASUS N50VN). I tested if the slot on my Dell was working by taking the Intel wireless mini half card that was already on the laptop and putting that into the full-sized mini PCI-E slot which I was testing the Avermedia card on..and it detects the intel card with no problem.

Anyone know why the Avermedia card is not being detected in the mini PCI-E slot? Would this be due to some BIOS limitation?

If anyone can provide some insight to this it would be great. Also if anyone knows of another working tv-tuner card I can use in the mini PCI-E slot please also let me know.

Thanks a bunch,
-James

 

Off the top of my head, I remember reading about Dell whitelisting what cards can be installed at the PCI-E slot.

So it might be due to that? I might be wrong though.