7500 All-in-Wonder TV

[Rich]

I've been in this business for a long time and this time I've run into a
hole I can't get out of. I have the ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 with the remote
controll. Everything was fine under XP Home for a few months. Due to
rebuilding the system I had to reinstall the drivers and such. Now I can't
get video until the Windows driver loads (I have another card in for DOS use
right now) and it doesn't seem to realize that it has a TV tuner or other
external video in it. I've already downloaded the newest drivers (as soon as
I buy stuff I do this).

Any ideas? Even hexes and spells will be considered.

Thanks, Rich Silva

 

[JAD]

Sounds like the Windows default drivers are loaded. Device manager says
version is? Anything in device manager under 'unknown devices"?

 

[patrickp]

I've been in this business for a long time and this time I've run into a
hole I can't get out of. I have the ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 with the remote
controll. Everything was fine under XP Home for a few months. Due to
rebuilding the system I had to reinstall the drivers and such. Now I can't
get video until the Windows driver loads (I have another card in for DOS use
right now) and it doesn't seem to realize that it has a TV tuner or other
external video in it. I've already downloaded the newest drivers (as soon as
I buy stuff I do this).

Any ideas? Even hexes and spells will be considered.

Thanks, Rich Silva

Might be worth checking in your BIOS which card you have set as primary,
Rich. MMC will only work with a card that's the primary graphics device.

As far as working in DOS is concerned, most of the modern drivers seem to
have given up supporting many DOS modes. The last one that did was the 9016
(about 1 1/2 years old but still available under Previous Driver Versions.
Actually a nice driver, too).

But I also noticed some of the Cat 3.5 drivers were supporting modes which
had preciously worked. Fortunately, Cats 3.5 and 3.6 seem to be back on the
case (as far as that goes...).

HTH patrickp

 

[patrickp]

soon
Might be worth checking in your BIOS which card you have set as primary,
Rich. MMC will only work with a card that's the primary graphics device.

As far as working in DOS is concerned, most of the modern drivers seem to
have given up supporting many DOS modes. The last one that did was the 9016
(about 1 1/2 years old but still available under Previous Driver Versions.
Actually a nice driver, too).

But I also noticed some of the Cat 3.5 drivers were supporting modes which
had preciously worked. Fortunately, Cats 3.5 and 3.6 seem to be back on the
case (as far as that goes...).

HTH patrickp

Sorry, my last paragraph should have read: "But I also noticed some of the
Cat 3.5 drivers were not supporting modes which had previously worked.
Fortunately, Cats 3.5 and 3.6 seem to be back on the case (as far as that
goes...)."

End of a very busy week...

patrickp

 

[Rich]

Nope, no unknowns and no Windows drivers. I have the current ATI driver
(6.14.1.6307) and the newest WDM driver. It's also weird that it doesn't
work in DOS mode, only after Windows loads the driver for it.

 

[Rich]

Please excuse the delay in replying. I feel REALLY dumb for not looking in
the bios for the video setting. That took care of the DOS problem. I have an
even newer driver than the one I mentioned earlier and can see the driver
for the tuner in the DEVICE MANAGER. The software still tells me that there
is no TV tuner. I may end up just putting in a little junk card so that I
can pull this thing and go through the registry and rip out every reference
to ATI. I've had to do this in the past with other hardware (modems are
notrious for this).

Thanks guys,

Rich

 

[Silver Dragon]

I've got a question that seems to tie into the above paragraph.

I recently upgraded my 32 MB all in wonder radeon to an AIW 7500. My
girlfriend got my old video card in her machine now. I'm using the
drivers that came with the CD (6.13.10.3286 from 10/2001), as everything
seems to be working fine.......

.......except I can't get any of my DOS based games to run at all. I'm not
talking anything all that new. Rage of Mages 2, GTA 3, Frogger, and Galaga
(Ok. You can stop laughing now. Yes, I do play frogger.). Frogger will
work intermittently. I can get Galaga and ROM 2 to work once, but once I
leave, I have to reboot to get them back. GTA 3 won't work at all. (In the
last 3 cases, the game flickers to a black screen, then flickers back to the
desktop, and the game minimizes in the tray. Attempting to maximize or
right click the game repeats this process.)

I've tried setting compatibility modes to windows 98. No dice there.
However, all the games run just fine on my GF's computer, which is networked
to mine, so she's running them off my HD.

Since our computers are virtually identical, I'm figuring that it's gotta be
a problem with the video card. I've looked on the site for this 9016
driver, but I can't find one with that number. Could you give me an exact
version number? I'd like to try it out.

Or if you know of a fix for this problem, that would be a great help, too.

 

[J.D.]

Rich's suggestion about putting in an old video card and hacking the
registry not only works for modems (especially WinModems), but network
cards, too. FWIW.

 

[J.D.]

Rich:

Iknow of a guy who used to burn incense and wave a rubber chicken over
the machine, even after a simple fix had already fixed the customer's
problem. All kidding aside, I've never run into this one (yet), but
figured you could maybe use a good laugh.

J.D.