HDTV Wonder Compatibility List

[A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away ....]

Hello,

I was wondering if a list has come out as to which ATI and Nvidia
cards are definately compatible with the HDTV Wonder? I'm trying to
install one in a system, and for some reason or another, the MSI
RX9550 I bought isn't working. It locks up the system before the
desktop comes up. I'm going to try to exchange it for a Celestica
9600SE Gold Edition, but I wanted to find out what other cards are
also compatible (like is the 9250 compatible)?

Thanks,
Linwood

 

[T Shadow]

Hello,

I was wondering if a list has come out as to which ATI and Nvidia
cards are definately compatible with the HDTV Wonder? I'm trying to
install one in a system, and for some reason or another, the MSI
RX9550 I bought isn't working. It locks up the system before the
desktop comes up. I'm going to try to exchange it for a Celestica
9600SE Gold Edition, but I wanted to find out what other cards are
also compatible (like is the 9250 compatible)?

Thanks,
Linwood

I don't know of any list. Should work with any DX9 card. Try moving the HDTV
Wonder to a different PCI slot. The slot closest to the AGP is the most
likely to cause problems. It's best to have the HDTV Wonder where it's not
sharing an IRQ.

 

[stratus46]

Hello,

I was wondering if a list has come out as to which ATI and Nvidia
cards are definately compatible with the HDTV Wonder? I'm trying to
install one in a system, and for some reason or another, the MSI
RX9550 I bought isn't working. It locks up the system before the
desktop comes up. I'm going to try to exchange it for a Celestica
9600SE Gold Edition, but I wanted to find out what other cards are
also compatible (like is the 9250 compatible)?

Thanks,
Linwood

--
Linwood Foster, (e-mail address removed)
3 of 10, Rec.Games.Mecha Moderation Team
10th Lyran Guards, The Revenants.
http://www.geocities.com/the_devillin

My first computer for HDTV Wonder was Sempron 2500, ECS K7VTA3, 512 mag
ram, Kaser 128 mB (powered by ATI) 9200 and a 160 Gig Maxtor IDE-- your
basic cheapo Fry's parts. Changed to Visiontek Xtasy 9600 video card
for DVI. Changed mobo to Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2, added 2nd 160 gig
drive, RAID 0, changed to ATI 9600 pro. Now has an Athlon 3000XP. I'm
not at all certain if a 'powered by ATI' card is a bad thing. There are
so many quirks in the system its hard to sort them out. The current
configuration is good enough for now.

Suggestions for using 'schedule record' in MMC 9.08

1: type any name at all for the recording. It will change it to
something else, usually what channel it was last used but seems to make
the file name match the Library entry so it works. You can 'Change
Title' within Library to put in the actual show name and it still
works. If it doesn't play from the Library, try 'File Player'. The
files are in a hidden folder. On my machine its
C:\documents and settings\<my user name>\application data\ATI MMC.
I have also played them by using Windows Explorer and double clicking
on one of the 2 Kbyte *.VCR files. To find the files you'll have to
select 'show hidden files' in the Windows stuff. Its in there
somewhere.
2: always select 'close MMC when complete' when scheduling a recording.
Needed if you're scheduling another record later.
3: always allow 1 minute between recordings. To avoid truncating the
shows, set your computer clock 10 seconds fast so it all begins a few
seconds before the start of the show.
4: Suggest NOT checking 'preserve TV on demand between sessions' in the
initialization wizard. If you leave it checked (default), it will chew
through your hard drive at 6-8 Gigs/hour and have a HUGE nmber of
selections in the Library.
5: Defragment the hard drive frequently -- like every week.

Clunky, but it is doing the job.
GG

 

[brian]

"Changed mobo to Gigabyte GA-7N400 " That`s why it`s sooooooo clunky.
you got a crap brand motherboard. I for one would never buy either a
gigabyte board because they promise the moon but do not deliver Gabc6 comes
to mind (promised that it would overclock cellery 300 to 450....NOT) abit
as well for 2 reasons. 1 Bad boards with bad caps and 2 "We Abit Will Never
build a board for the Athlon cpu" They said tat in August 1999. Buy
Quality parts and Not have problems.....I do.

 

[A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away ....]

"Changed mobo to Gigabyte GA-7N400 " That`s why it`s sooooooo clunky.
you got a crap brand motherboard. I for one would never buy either a
gigabyte board because they promise the moon but do not deliver Gabc6 comes
to mind (promised that it would overclock cellery 300 to 450....NOT) abit
as well for 2 reasons. 1 Bad boards with bad caps and 2 "We Abit Will Never
build a board for the Athlon cpu" They said tat in August 1999. Buy
Quality parts and Not have problems.....I do.

I'm changing the configuration a little:
Asus A7S8X-MX
Athlon XP 1700
768MB DDR266

I'm going to be looking at exchanging the MSI RX9550 for either a
Celestica ATI Radeon 9600SE Gold Edition or a BFG GeForce FX 5500.
Which is the better video card, both in terms of performance and
compatibility with the HDTV Wonder?

 

[stratus46]

"Changed mobo to Gigabyte GA-7N400 " That`s why it`s sooooooo clunky.
you got a crap brand motherboard. I for one would never buy either a
gigabyte board because they promise the moon but do not deliver Gabc6 comes
to mind (promised that it would overclock cellery 300 to 450....NOT) abit
as well for 2 reasons. 1 Bad boards with bad caps and 2 "We Abit Will Never
build a board for the Athlon cpu" They said tat in August 1999. Buy
Quality parts and Not have problems.....I do.

So Brian, you see a brand you don't like and immediately assume that
must be the problem. I don't bother with 'overclocking' anymore. If I
want a faster machine, I build a new one. Those couple of percentage
points you squeek out vs having it go blue screen now and then isn't
worth the bother. What I WANT is a machine that works every time with
no 'aw $#%^&$'. Both (yep, I have 2) Gigabyte machines do that, one for
2 years and the newer one for 6 months. BTW I've had MSI, ECS,FIC, DFI,
Biostar, Iwill, Abit, Intel and a few other motherboards in the past. 1
possible problem with the Iwill but may have been a heating problem
because of bad fan.

By 'clunky', I refer specifically to item 1 where scheduling a record 1
minute early and running 62 minutes will end up with a file name in the
library that doesn' match the name on the actual file UNLESS you give a
name -- any name -- other than the default.
The impact of this is that while there IS an entry in the Library, it
doen't play anything even though the files are present and OK which CAN
be played with the File Player.

Items 2 and 3 are 'clunky', AGAIN because of software issues. ATI tells
you to allow the 1 minute gap because it hangs. If they WERE hardware
problems, there would be consistency problems as in SOME times it
misbehaves but not always.

This isn't a hardware issue. It's very clearly a software shortcoming.
It works well enough for me but you would not give this to you
mother-in-law --- unless you want to torment her. Its a nerd machine
that is doing very well for what I want, which is to watch HD when I
want.

Happy New Year
GG