ATI AIW 9600 - 8.9MMC - FM Tuner Problems

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

Running XP Pro SP1a.
Everything was upgraded - Catalyst at 4.10 (latest).

Anyways, when I am listening to the FM tuner it plays for a while
(minute - several minutes tops) - then it basically dies - you hear
garbage as if the signal is lost. I then shut it down and restart and
it is fine - again for a minute - several minutes. Repeat Repeat
Repeat.

It tells me - nothing wrong with the signal since each restart the
sound is fine.

It tells me either a hardware problem or software problem. Hopefully
software. Part of me wants to uninstall and put back 8.8 and see if
it causes problems....

teddy

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

Running XP Pro SP1a.
Everything was upgraded - Catalyst at 4.10 (latest).

Anyways, when I am listening to the FM tuner it plays for a while
(minute - several minutes tops) - then it basically dies - you hear
garbage as if the signal is lost. I then shut it down and restart and
it is fine - again for a minute - several minutes. Repeat Repeat
Repeat.

It tells me - nothing wrong with the signal since each restart the
sound is fine.

It tells me either a hardware problem or software problem. Hopefully
software. Part of me wants to uninstall and put back 8.8 and see if
it causes problems....

teddy

As per the subject this is MMC 8.9.

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

As per the subject this is MMC 8.9.

Tool I am.. I should say catalyst is 4.2 not 4.1.

 

[Stan]

Hi,

I have the same problem. 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 Nvidea 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 was 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.

-Stan

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

Hi,

I have the same problem. 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 Nvidea 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 was 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.

-Stan

OUCH! Well I am glad I am in the same boat (not alone with people
scratching their head).
Richard said the following (when I posted this problem (few messages
above)

I had the same problem. Went to SmartGART and had it retest all
settings. I ran it from the .exe in the ATI directory rather than
from the display properties tab. There is a shortcut in the ATI
Control Panel subdirectory. Shows more options. After that all ran
OK. HTH

I will try.... and advise..

 

[Theodore \Bundy\ Rogers]

Any luck?
I have an open ticket - they have stated (ATI) that there are other
cases.
They suggested reverting to an older BIOS (I updated then it failed -
may or may not be related).
Not something simple - may have to revert to CD rom version.

However, I noticed you have ASUS as well.....
Mine is P4P800DX..

If you have no ticket email them your problem...