Attention: for everyone with ATI video cards

[mc]

There are new drivers at ATI - AMD especially for Vista:

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

It will stabilise the videocard problems for most of you I guess!

I installed the latest ATI driver (Catalyst 7.1), I have a ATI Radeon
Mobilty card and it fixed also some other minor video problems (first
uninstall all old ATI drivers of course)

 

[mlai]

Wasn't those out since Jan29?

 

[Guest]

Now I'm good and confused! I currently have a Radeon x200/x500 on my Dell
Dimenion 8400. I just removed an All-In-Wonder 2006 card from another box
that I had planned to install when I upgrade this computer to Vista. (I have
Vista Ultimate sitting on my desk and it's driving me nuts 'cause I have to
wait for the upgrade to QuickBooks to arrive and for my bookeeper to finsh
year end accounting before I make the big switch!) So in anticipation, I
wrote to AMD tech support for advice on installing the proper driver and got
this response today:

"Hi, only the GPU Graphics Processor Unit is supported on Windows Vista with
the ALL IN WONDER 2006 PCIE.

Note: All-in-WonderT boards operate with AMD Windows Vista-Ready Display
Drivers under the Windows Vista Operating System. However there is currently
no software application which provides TV/Capture functionality for
All-in-WonderT boards under Windows Vista."

Thank You,
AMD

So this sounds to me like I have a $200 doorstop now, as someone said in
another thread. Assuming that the tech support people are right and the All
In Wonder is essentialy useless, can someone recommend a video card that will
take advangatge of all the features of Vista Ultimate, especially, of course,
the media center/TV tuner functionalities? Thanks for any advice or guidance!

 

[Guest]

On more thing: I have a 37" Dell TV/Monitoron this system and would dearly
love to have a card with an HDMI output. Am I S.O.L is there such an animal
out there?

 

[246872 Jim McCree]

Here ya go......

A search of dell.com for HDMI Video showed this!

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0948350

Jim

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Jim. I really appreciate your going to all that trouble for me. It
doesn't appear to have aTV tuner, though. Am I missing it in the specs?
Also, I'mn so bad at reading specs ... is it actually an HMDI output or a
DVI-output with a DVI-to-HDMI cable? I can't quite sort that out.

 

[Guest]

David, we are all beginning to become IT specialist with Windows Vista,
especially Vista 64. I have the TV Wonder Pro, that I had to physically
remove from my computer because it conflicted with Windows Vista 64 and ATI
will only publish a driver for it under Windows Vista 64 in june 2007. I
found that out on ATI site. You may probably find out on their site that
they may be working on a driver for your All-in-wonder 2006 card. By the
looks of it, being the first users of new OS has its thrill but also its
downside... the need for a lot of patience.

 

[Guest]

Man, you nailed that one, Serge. It never ceases to amaze me that companies
of these sizes with the resources and brainpower they have don't anticipate
and resolve these problems before their cutsomers become angry, disaffected
and work actively to dissuade others from buying their products. It
certainly demonstrates why Apple fans are so loyal. If I didn't know so much
about these &^%$#!(@ PCs after 24 years as an average user who has had to
invest thousands of hours making these crappy products and buggy software
work, I'd trash my tens of thousands of dollars in computer investment and
buy a bunch of Apple products and spend my time working with and enjoying my
computers rather than screwing around and wasting my time. Shame on the
bunch of them.

 

[246872 Jim McCree]

Tech Specs


Features Cable(s) included
256-Bit Ring Bus, 12-pixel Shader Engines, Ultra Threaded Core 3D
Architecture, Includes HDMI to DVI-D Adapter, Short Bracket Conversion Kit
HDMI Cable
Device Type Interface Type
Graphics Card PCI-E®
Min Operating System Min Processor Type
Windows® XP/XP Media Center Edition/2000/Vista™ Intel® Pentium® 4 /AMD
Athlonâ„¢ 64 / AMD Athlon XPâ„¢ or compatible with x16 PCI Express slot
Port(s) Total ( Free ) / Connector Type Slot(s) Required
HDMI or DVI-D / Component HDTV YPbPr Output / S-Video/Composite Video
TV-Out / VGA Connectors x16 PCI-E®
System Requirements Memory / Video Installed ( Max )
CD-ROM / DVD Drive, Correct Chipset Drivers, 350 Watt or Greater Power
Supply 256 MB
API Supported
Shader Model 3.0

TV Tuner for Dell Systems......

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A0961903

Or Multiple selections......

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...&~ck=anav&~srd=true&sk=TV+Tuner&scat=prod&p=1


Yes...I work at a Dell Kiosk on Weekends here in Toledo.....LOL

Jim