SONY BTF-PA402Z

Looking for XP or Win 7 32bit driver

Plucked this TV/Capture card out of a Pentium 4 Sony Vaio Tower that wasnt worthy of being rebuilt due to old guts. Having troubles trying to find a driver for it. Windows XP and Windows 7 show ! in hardware manager.

Wish driverguide.com was still free to search their database for this driver. Use to get on with user=drivers password=all     many years ago.

ThanksGood evening DaveLembke

I don't know it they work but I did find this http://www.mitsdrivers.com/pages_btf-pa402z-driver.html from the posts I have found they say it seems to want to install driver detective first I honestly don't know if it would find the drivers or not. I clicked on the link and it was only 339kb I don't know being so small it is the real driver or if it safe .     

Is there any other FCC ID's / model numbers or any other info on the card that is on a sticker or silk-screened on the PCB? Maybe if we can find the card manufacture / chip we might be able to get drivers. I looked at MS site for compatibility and no sony tuner cards are listed if we can find the real company that made it I think we will have better luck. Maybe it is really a leadtek, avermedia, diamond etc.

In Windows 7 if you look at the HW id in the device manager what does it say anything good?

In Windows 7 when in the device manager if you tell it to use windows update does it say it is not compatible or it only checks for like 1 sec and stops and says nope it couldn't find anything? or does it really look and then say nothing is found for a update.   

Do you know the PC model that it came out of?   

What bit version of windows 7 is it 32 or 64 bit? and I am assuming XP will be 32 bit?

Still looking hope to hear from you soon, Mike



Both OS XP and 7 are 32-bit. I have 2 drives in my system that I intend to use this card with dual boot, so if XP drivers are only available, since the original Vaio build was XP Home Media Edition thats fine.

I too found that link in google pointing to driver detective and avoided that like the plague..LOL, also found some older links that  lead to nowhere. Wish I wrote down the exact model number of the Vaio tower before tossing it out to recycle. I just REMEMBER that it had a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz in it and it was loaded with features of which the TV/Capture card was the only part that still had value to me with the rest of the guts too old for any beneficial need that I have.

Before posting here I also went to sonys site and no luck there.

I do recall seeing a chip on it  with Conexant brand name, so maybe its really a Conexant Capture card, rebranded as SONY. Just did a Conexant   BTF-PA402Z search instead of SONY BTF-PA402Z and found a potentially helpful link in which another individual is praising it, so maybe this is the location of the solution. Maybe I just need to pay and join driverguide to get it.  http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=21594

From my home computer I will dig further, as for I CANT from work computer on 15 min break.. Thanks for your assistance  A shot in the dark here and took a while to track down, but I found a driver for Windows XP MCE. You can try it and see if it works. This model of computer included that particular card and that's what this driver is for. It's a direct download from Sony, so no need to worry about viruses or scams. If it works, it works. If not, uninstall it and keep looking.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=VGCRA825GY&template_id=1&region_id=1&tab=download#/downloadTab

You'll find the driver under the MPEG section.Finally found a driver that works. The one linked by Quaxo appeared to require that it be run on the original Sony computer or else it would not install driver. I ended up finding the driver through a website similar to driver guide of which its name skips my mind at the moment. I was able to download the driver package for free about 34MB of it and unzip it after first scanning it for anything bad. I then pointed Windows to the driver location and it mounted the Capture Card and according to Windows XP Pro, it is now happy with it.

Next came finding a software package that would work with this card. I had a USB Capture Device with ulead software and so I attempted to use that software to use this TV Capture Card and it is able to initialize this Capture Card I am guessing since a small green surface mount LED on the capure card goes green when selecting it from devices, but this ulead software does not properly support it other than initialization request from what i can tell. Nothing displayed on the preview panel and when attempting to record it says no signal detected yet I know that there is a signal present, and the capture card is set to the correct channel.

So I went to try to find software that will work with this capture card and still have yet to find one that works. I tried a bunch and none of them detect this capture card, yet ulead was able to detect it and initialize it. EVEN tried Freevo Live Linux CD to see if that could even support it both the latest ISO version 15 as well as a prior Legacy Device Support ISO without success. Seen LOTS of software ONLINE that costs money and claims that it works with a wide range of capture devices, but I'd rather not spend any money if possible and I am not about to spend money and take a chance that it will work or not work without refunds of software that is $50 a pop.

Seen online other people in google searches with issues trying to get this Capture Card to work with software packages and maybe I should just toss this card out and buy a new one that comes with driver CD etc and support, although I bought a K-World Capture Card 8 years ago and it never worked in my Compaq Presario AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with 1GB RAM running Windows XP Home, and I should have returned it, but too much time went by and so I had a $30 paperweight.

Anyone have any suggestions of software to try with this capture card?