ATI All-in-Wonder 2006 PCI Express

[Barry Watzman]

I've read a number of things about the ATI All-in-Wonder 2006 PCI
Express, some of them very bad (board unstable, software unstable, lots
of tuner problems with higher channels). But I don't know how recent
these reports are. What is the current status of this board and it's
software? I have used 3-4 dozen AIW cards, am currently using an AIW
Radeon 8500 (an oldie at this point), but am going to be going to a
PCI-E motherboard soon. I must have DVI monitor support.

Comments?

 

[Jim Bailey]

I can only comment about this card from a 'non-expert' standpoint. I
purchased the card from their website directly and installed the card and
software - that part was fairly uneventful - and it came up and appeared to
work fine.

Then I noticed a few things happening. First I could't tune anything above
channel 69 - simply wouldn't work.

If I closed the TV, then after a while opened it again, I woudn't have any
sound. I've never figured that out. Rebooting fixed it for a while, but now
I have no sound - period. Sound in all other non-ATI applications works
fine.

Also, closing any of ATI application would many times bring up some sort of
error with MMC also.

A call to ATI support was a bit frustrating for a non-tech type like myself.
First they needed the EXACT model number of my mother board. After getting
that and calling back, they simply read off a list of MB driver versions
that I should have and if I don't have them, they won't help me - end of
that discussion.

I've given up - it runs my Dell 2405 at 1920x just fine so I'm just doing
without TV until I can find a bit more friendly, stable, NON-ATI card to put
in here and throw this $200 in the trash.

Your results may of course be great.

 

[Barry Watzman]

Jim, thanks. A couple of questions:

1. Are you using the latest ATI drivers & software?

2. What motherboard and CPU do you have?

Regards

 

[stratus46]

I can only comment about this card from a 'non-expert' standpoint. I
purchased the card from their website directly and installed the card and
software - that part was fairly uneventful - and it came up and appeared to
work fine.

Then I noticed a few things happening. First I could't tune anything above
channel 69 - simply wouldn't work.

If I closed the TV, then after a while opened it again, I woudn't have any
sound. I've never figured that out. Rebooting fixed it for a while, but now
I have no sound - period. Sound in all other non-ATI applications works
fine.

Also, closing any of ATI application would many times bring up some sort of
error with MMC also.

A call to ATI support was a bit frustrating for a non-tech type like myself.
First they needed the EXACT model number of my mother board. After getting
that and calling back, they simply read off a list of MB driver versions
that I should have and if I don't have them, they won't help me - end of
that discussion.

I've given up - it runs my Dell 2405 at 1920x just fine so I'm just doing
without TV until I can find a bit more friendly, stable, NON-ATI card to put
in here and throw this $200 in the trash.

Your results may of course be great.

You ARE aware that there are no channels above 69, right? Used to be
but they've been gone a long time. The motherboard drivers are
important to get best performance. It made quite a difference with the
HDTV Wonder and 9600 pro card. You refuse to use the drivers because ??

GG

 

[Tom Lake]

Then I noticed a few things happening. First I could't tune

anything above

You ARE aware that there are no channels above 69, right? Used to be
but they've been gone a long time.

Where are you from? Here in northern NY State, we have regular cable
channels
up to 109 on the Time-Warner cable system. Adelphia goes even higher.

Tom Lake

 

[Barry Watzman]

Well, there are cable channels above 69; our cable system has cable
channels up to the low 100's; I think that channels are defined up to
125. But I have cable channels that I actively watch in the 60's and
70's. So I guess that when we talk about receiving high channels, we
need to claify if we are talking about off-the-air (UHF used to go to
83, but now only goes to 69) or {analog} cable (which goes well above 100).

 

[Barry Watzman]

He's talking about off-the-air and you are talking about cable channels.
They are not the same. In fact, the frequency assignments are not the
same (e.g. cable channel 43 is not on the same frequency as off-the-air
channel 43). And, for that matter, the frequency assignments for
digital {HDTV} channels are not the same as for analog TV channels (HDTV
{digital, ATSC} channel 43 not the same as analog (NTSC) channel 43 not
the same as cable channel 43).

So we need to be explicit when we talk about channel reception.

 

[Tom Lake]

He's talking about off-the-air and you are talking about cable channels.

Programming is still available off the air? 8^)

Tom Lake

 

[T Shadow]

Programming is still available off the air? 8^)

Tom Lake

80% of my viewing is OTA. DTV is better PQ than analog cable, even SD
channels, and no premium to pay the cable company. Variety is the only thing
keeping me using the cable at all. Well, that and Road Runner. Cable doesn't
rebroadcast all of the network HD in my area either.