ATI AIW Radeon PCI 32mb - No Sound, but...

[jdc_tech]

Hi,

I've got an ATI AIW PCI 32mb paired with a SB Live Platinum.
Problem, no sound. This setup worked on/with CableTV thru a vcr a
year ago. The box config changed, and I just reloaded the hardware
w/a fresh copy of W2k pro +SP4.

Different today is that I'm using amplified rabbit ears using
regular broadcast tv on the AIW coax connector. Thought if I put the
out put of the rabbit ears to the AIW, it should work. It does, the
tuner finds the channels, but no sound. I used the AIW A/V out and
put the line into the sound card, no sound. Inside the box, I used
the cd line from AIW to the soundcard (had the little white connector
on one end, the regular black flat on the sound card end), no sound.
I'm receiving channels great.

At this point I'm concerned about the AIW and wether it has
something wrong. Anyone ever use rabbit ears for the signal and is
there any reason you shouldn't get sound? I ran the rabbit ears thru
a vcr and then it's output to the AIW, still no sound. Got picture
all day. Anything stand out in this scenario that would point to a
sound prob? The setup is still w/the AIW connected to the SB Live via
CDR cable.


Thanks,

jdc

 

[JAD]

I have my OLD 128 AIW pro on rabbit ears sound is present. CSBA2P sound card.

 

[jdc_tech]

Got it to work but not until after seeing ur reply. Changed slots
around, sound is back. Slots are all equal, didn't make a whole lot
of sense. Never had any HDW errors via bios or w2k. AIW was in slot
1, SB in 2. Wanted to toss it up, did 4/2 and sound has returned.
Appreciate the reply.

 

[patrickp]

Got it to work but not until after seeing ur reply. Changed slots
around, sound is back. Slots are all equal, didn't make a whole lot
of sense. Never had any HDW errors via bios or w2k. AIW was in slot
1, SB in 2. Wanted to toss it up, did 4/2 and sound has returned.
Appreciate the reply.

Slots are not all equal. Some share IRQs and some may tend to assign
certain IRQs which may not be appropriate for the card in them. Read your
mobo manual.

That's why the first response to someone having video and sound card
problems is always "try another slot." Since the video card will usually be
a AGP one (which slot, incidentally, _very_ often shares an IRQ with the
first PCI slot), that means moving the sound card.

patrickp

 

[jdc_tech]

Slots are not all equal.

In this case they were, was commenting on this board that has 33mhz
slots and dual 33/66 slots. Anyway, it was the share and of course it
was thought of LAST. Felt pretty foolish, and sure enough after the
switch and reboot, sound 'appeared'. Quite excited, hoped not to end
up w/a problem device to repurchase, and indeed it was just stupidity
at work. hehe. Thanks for the replies.


jdc