AIW ATI 9600 FM Tuner Not working

[Stan]

Hi,

I have the same problem in a past post. The FM tuner on an all-in-wonder
Radeon 9600 card tunes a station then crackles and goes silent. When I
restart the program the tuner works again for a few seconds or minutes,
then crackles and dies.

I sent the card back to ATI for replacement after talking to their
tech support at length. They shipped new card, I installed, tried
several versions of the drivers and MMC, had the same problem.

My Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with an onboard sound card. I am
running WinXP SP1.

The problem sounds like the card is building charge in a capacitor that
then shuts off the FM tuner as if it were a fuse. I may try grounding
the MB or the card, or moving other cards around.

The video and TV work fine. I noticed the FM is on the wave input
chanel, different from the TV tuner which is on the aux, or line-in chanels.

Anyone else have this problem? Anyone use their FM tuner?
-Stan

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

Hi,

I have the same problem in a past post. The FM tuner on an all-in-wonder
Radeon 9600 card tunes a station then crackles and goes silent. When I
restart the program the tuner works again for a few seconds or minutes,
then crackles and dies.

I sent the card back to ATI for replacement after talking to their
tech support at length. They shipped new card, I installed, tried
several versions of the drivers and MMC, had the same problem.

My Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with an onboard sound card. I am
running WinXP SP1.

The problem sounds like the card is building charge in a capacitor that
then shuts off the FM tuner as if it were a fuse. I may try grounding
the MB or the card, or moving other cards around.

The video and TV work fine. I noticed the FM is on the wave input
chanel, different from the TV tuner which is on the aux, or line-in chanels.

Anyone else have this problem? Anyone use their FM tuner?
-Stan

I suspect being a relatively new card (first one with FM - you can say
"thanks" for telling you that we are the pigs of guinea if you will) -
they have no idea what to do so they shipped you a new card.

Only until they realize the problem is more rampant will anything (IF
anything) will be done.

I have a Nokia 8390. My biggest problem was - the phone would crash.
Half way during a call I would get a high-pitch sound and the
connection was gone (nothing to do with signal loss). Happened in
various places. I sent the phone in with a detailed letter of the
problems. They gave me a new phone. Some I know had the BIOS
upgraded at various places and said "it doesn't crash as much as
before". Well that was a case of - they found the problem; new the
solution and gave me a new phone.

It might be a simple "adjustment" to this card (9600) or it might be
the TUNER component might have a defect or something else.

FYI
My line in used is AUX (I added a special connector on the MB "aux"
port which the ATI card plugs into).
ASUS P4P800DX
XP Pro SP1a
I have NO other cards in my PC (the motherboard has everything other
than video) - so moving cards would be futile
Until your post of "multiple versions of the MMC" I was thinking
software but not anymore.

I find the problem odd - why it fails and then a simple exit/restart
fixes it - your capacitor theory - would it not take time to build the
charge - and the tuner would shutdown EARLIER each time you restart
it? Because I am not seeing that. The FM plays for no-predictable
time. Sometimes less than 1minute other times more than 2 minutes.

I am going to sent this entire post to customer service (dead space I
know) and see where it goes.

Thanks Stan..
Teddy

 

[xman Charlie]

tuner works for me...

mmc 8.8
display driver ver 6.14.10.....

device manager

ati wdm rage theater audio
ati wdm rage theater video
ati wdm specialized mvd codec
ati wdm specialized pcd codec
ati wdm tv audio crossbar
ati wdm tv tuner

I get static when it first starts up...about 20 seconds....

I got a very good antenna for it, hooked up with coax to it, thats 50ft coax
to the antenna...

I also have a winfast 2000xp pro, I perfer its fm tuner.

I would like to be able to record 96kbps 41hz, but both pvrs its 56kbps
22hz, my sony entertaiment system, dvd player, will not play stuff below
80kbs (mp3).

my 2 cents

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

What is WinFast? And also what is your MB?

tuner works for me...

mmc 8.8
display driver ver 6.14.10.....

device manager

ati wdm rage theater audio
ati wdm rage theater video
ati wdm specialized mvd codec
ati wdm specialized pcd codec
ati wdm tv audio crossbar
ati wdm tv tuner

I get static when it first starts up...about 20 seconds....

I got a very good antenna for it, hooked up with coax to it, thats 50ft coax
to the antenna...

I also have a winfast 2000xp pro, I perfer its fm tuner.

I would like to be able to record 96kbps 41hz, but both pvrs its 56kbps
22hz, my sony entertaiment system, dvd player, will not play stuff below
80kbs (mp3).

my 2 cents