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ATI TV Wonder - Garbled Video

 
 
HockeyTownUSA
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      11th Jun 2006
I have an old PCI ATI TV Wonder (probably about five years old now) but has
worked perfectly fine until recently. I had it in an AGP with AthlonXP
motherboard. I recently updated to an Athlon64 mobo (ASUS A8N5X) with
PCI-Express.

I have a nVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-E video card. My previous machine had an
AGP GeForce Ti4200 and then later a 6600 AGP. This TV Wonder worked fine
with both of these cards as long as I used MMC 7.x software. All I care to
do is use it as a spare TV monitor, no recording or anything.

Anyhow, in my new setup, I tried the TV wonder in all three PCI slots and I
get garbled video. The video is viewable but has broken or scrambled lines
on it. Any suggestions on what to try?


 
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      12th Jun 2006

>I have an old PCI ATI TV Wonder (probably about five years old now) but has
> worked perfectly fine until recently. I had it in an AGP with AthlonXP
> motherboard. I recently updated to an Athlon64 mobo (ASUS A8N5X) with
> PCI-Express.
>
> I have a nVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-E video card. My previous machine had an
> AGP GeForce Ti4200 and then later a 6600 AGP. This TV Wonder worked fine
> with both of these cards as long as I used MMC 7.x software. All I care to
> do is use it as a spare TV monitor, no recording or anything.
>
> Anyhow, in my new setup, I tried the TV wonder in all three PCI slots and I
> get garbled video. The video is viewable but has broken or scrambled lines
> on it. Any suggestions on what to try?
>
>

Wipe out the card's existence in every essence. Remove the drivers, in the
hardware manager disable and uninstall the card, do an auto registry cleaning,
maybe a disc defrag. Then shut down the machine, as well as the power
switch on the back of the machine. Keep your skin on the internal steel of
the case while removing the card. Card out, turn the machine back on and
do another registry cleaning. If there is one, download the latest driver for
that card.

Now, shut down the machine again, and reinstall the card in a DIFFERENT
SLOT than original, and switch the machine back on again, then install the
[new] driver. See what happens, if it's no good then probably some level
of meandering static electricity has corrupted the card, and you would
need a new one.

....hope this helps, and good luck. Report back.

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HockeyTownUSA
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      13th Jun 2006

"AAvK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have an old PCI ATI TV Wonder (probably about five years old now) but
>>has worked perfectly fine until recently. I had it in an AGP with AthlonXP
>>motherboard. I recently updated to an Athlon64 mobo (ASUS A8N5X) with
>>PCI-Express.
>>
>> I have a nVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-E video card. My previous machine had an
>> AGP GeForce Ti4200 and then later a 6600 AGP. This TV Wonder worked fine
>> with both of these cards as long as I used MMC 7.x software. All I care
>> to do is use it as a spare TV monitor, no recording or anything.
>>
>> Anyhow, in my new setup, I tried the TV wonder in all three PCI slots and
>> I get garbled video. The video is viewable but has broken or scrambled
>> lines on it. Any suggestions on what to try?

> Wipe out the card's existence in every essence. Remove the drivers, in
> the hardware manager disable and uninstall the card, do an auto registry
> cleaning, maybe a disc defrag. Then shut down the machine, as well as the
> power switch on the back of the machine. Keep your skin on the internal
> steel of the case while removing the card. Card out, turn the machine
> back on and do another registry cleaning. If there is one, download the
> latest driver for that card.
>
> Now, shut down the machine again, and reinstall the card in a DIFFERENT
> SLOT than original, and switch the machine back on again, then install the
> [new] driver. See what happens, if it's no good then probably some level
> of meandering static electricity has corrupted the card, and you would
> need a new one.
>
> ...hope this helps, and good luck. Report back.
>
> --
> }<)))*> Giant_Alex
> cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com
> not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/



Thanks, but this is a completely fresh Windows install.

Anything above MMC 7.x won't work with this card if you aren't using an ATI
video card.

I will try it with another PC I have and see if it does any better in there.


 
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