AIW tuner weirdness

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Matt Ion

Had a lockup in the TV app the other day (Radeon 9800 AIW, WinXP Pro,
latest ATI drivers, and MMC), ended up having to hard-reset the
machine... now the tuner is doing very odd things.

When I start the TV app, the control bar shows the Tuner input and the
last channel I was on, but the TV window shows it's actually tuned to
channel 1. There's a short burst of static, then no sound. I can
change the channel from there, but there's still no sound. Looking at
the system mixer, the Aux channel (where the TV sound comes in) is
unmuted and turned up.

If I click the input-select button, it will change to Composite, but the
TV display stays up; clicking again, it stays on Composite, but then I
get TV display with slightly offset sound (the sound is a half-second
ahead of the picture). Right-clicking input select shows both Analog
Tuner and Composite as options (S-Video has disappeared), but selecting
either, the displayed input still says Composite and the tuning buttons
are locked out; the only difference is, I get the out-of-sync sound with
Analog Tuner selected.

I've tried re-running the Initialization Wizard but it never gives me
the input-configuration pages: I get the Country, Cable/Antenna and
Autoscan page, Set Password page, default Recording Format page, and
Temporary Drive setting page, and that's all.

I'm thinking if I can nuke all the TV settings and then rerun the
wizard, it might clear itself up, but have no idea where to look for the
bit to delete. I've restarted the machine a couple times with no effect.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
Matt Ion said:
Had a lockup in the TV app the other day (Radeon 9800 AIW, WinXP Pro,
latest ATI drivers, and MMC), ended up having to hard-reset the
machine... now the tuner is doing very odd things.

When I start the TV app, the control bar shows the Tuner input and the
last channel I was on, but the TV window shows it's actually tuned to
channel 1. There's a short burst of static, then no sound. I can
change the channel from there, but there's still no sound. Looking at
the system mixer, the Aux channel (where the TV sound comes in) is
unmuted and turned up.

If I click the input-select button, it will change to Composite, but the
TV display stays up; clicking again, it stays on Composite, but then I
get TV display with slightly offset sound (the sound is a half-second
ahead of the picture). Right-clicking input select shows both Analog
Tuner and Composite as options (S-Video has disappeared), but selecting
either, the displayed input still says Composite and the tuning buttons
are locked out; the only difference is, I get the out-of-sync sound with
Analog Tuner selected.

I've tried re-running the Initialization Wizard but it never gives me
the input-configuration pages: I get the Country, Cable/Antenna and
Autoscan page, Set Password page, default Recording Format page, and
Temporary Drive setting page, and that's all.

I'm thinking if I can nuke all the TV settings and then rerun the
wizard, it might clear itself up, but have no idea where to look for the
bit to delete. I've restarted the machine a couple times with no effect.

Anyone got any ideas?
Click to expand...

Look in Device Manager and see if the drivers are still installed correctly.
If they are
I'd go to Add/Remove Software in the Control Panel and do a Repair on MMC.
HTH
 
Matt Ion said:
Had a lockup in the TV app the other day (Radeon 9800 AIW, WinXP Pro,
latest ATI drivers, and MMC), ended up having to hard-reset the
machine... now the tuner is doing very odd things.

When I start the TV app, the control bar shows the Tuner input and the
last channel I was on, but the TV window shows it's actually tuned to
channel 1. There's a short burst of static, then no sound. I can
change the channel from there, but there's still no sound. Looking at
the system mixer, the Aux channel (where the TV sound comes in) is
unmuted and turned up.

If I click the input-select button, it will change to Composite, but the
TV display stays up; clicking again, it stays on Composite, but then I
get TV display with slightly offset sound (the sound is a half-second
ahead of the picture). Right-clicking input select shows both Analog
Tuner and Composite as options (S-Video has disappeared), but selecting
either, the displayed input still says Composite and the tuning buttons
are locked out; the only difference is, I get the out-of-sync sound with
Analog Tuner selected.

I've tried re-running the Initialization Wizard but it never gives me
the input-configuration pages: I get the Country, Cable/Antenna and
Autoscan page, Set Password page, default Recording Format page, and
Temporary Drive setting page, and that's all.

I'm thinking if I can nuke all the TV settings and then rerun the
wizard, it might clear itself up, but have no idea where to look for the
bit to delete. I've restarted the machine a couple times with no effect.

Anyone got any ideas?
Click to expand...

MMC 9.06 appears to be messed up. I read on www.rage3d.com that some people
have fixed these issues by installing the latest Remote Wonder software.
Personally, I went back to MMC 9.03 and I'll wait for ATI to fix the
problems.

As for the audio, it's now handled digitally so you don't need
aux-in/line-in connection anymore. It's too bad ATI didn't give us digital
as an option.
 
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