AIW 9800 Pro MMC Driver Hell

[Paul Grunwald]

I was able to get my AIW 9800 Pro working in Wolf ET by installed these
patched drivers from the ATI site:

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4295.html


I then decided to hookup the TV portion of the card so I installed from the
CD that came with card. It was all working and then I checked the driver
version and it had rolled me back to the Cat 3.4 drivers.

I then reinstalled the 3.9x drivers from above and the TV video quit
playing, I could still hear sound but no picture.

I then uninstalled the MMC portion and installed MMC 8.7 from the website.,
still no video. The TV input section only shows "composite" and "s-video",
I no longer have the "cable tv" input selection.

I then uninstalled everything, ran driver cleaner and reinstalled 3.9x and
MMC 8.7 fresh from downloads. Still no picture and now MMC locks up.

Anyone have a suggestion for a good install recipe that will get me running
with latest and greatest drivers or should I just live with the 3.4 that
came on the CD?

TIA,
P.

 

[Bazis]

It seems u have the directx 9 problem microsoft published a new directx9b
version right here:
http://www.hw-vault.com/files.php/scheda_199.html

Good luck, I had the same problems, now everything works like a charm after
reinstalling XP and installed the catalyst 3.8 drivers!!

Baz

 

[Paul Grunwald]

After fooling around for a couple of hours, I seem to have gotten
current and stable. I'm posting this to possibly help others...

I did another complete uninstall of all ATI software using the add/remove
programs and then running driver cleaner 2 in safe mode.


1) Installed all ATI software from the 9800 AIW Catalyst Disk. This got
me to MMC 3.5 and Cat 3.4 drivers. This base install worked but was not
totally stable, esp. with the Gemstar Guide+ and the TV application.

2) I then uninstalled MMC 3.5 and installed MMC 3.7 from ATI download and
let it keep the settings at the prompt. This broke Guide+ so I unstalled
from Add/remove and installed it only again from CD directory.

3) I then removed the ATI Video driver only from add/remove programs,
rebooted, and then installed the patched Catalyst 3.9 driver from here:
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4295.html


Everything seems to be working and stable. Again, system is WinXP Pro
SP1, Audigy 1 card, AIW 9800 Pro, Pentium 845-based P4, 640 meg ram, P4
2.0Ghz.


HTH,
P.