I have two Nova-T budget cards but can only get the one to work.

I have:

Nova-T (budget-ci) with the remote, td1004x tuner etc.., this works fine.

Nova-T (budget) with no remote, grundig tuner, this tunes but won't receive data (black screen and messages in /var/log/mythtv/ says no data received from card).

Both cards show up fine in the dmesg. The modules load with no problems.

My motherboard is an ABit NF7 (Nforce 2).

Kernel version 2.6.7 (the only version that seems to work in the slightest).
No ACPI selected, APIC on (tried off but it wouldn't work).

I've made sure the IRQs are unique.

What should I try next? I've played with latency briefly with no effect. Is there a kernel version/driver combination which will let both cards work?