Problem with ATI AIW 9800

[Oldspook]

I have the AIW 9800 installed in a P4 3.2, Asus P4C800-E. It was working
great, TV and everything. Then I had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall
everything. Everything is back to normal except the TV.

I have my digital cable box connected to the AIW through the S-video and
stereo audio. The audio in plugged in the mother board onboard sound Line In
input. Before the crash, when I watched TV on the computer, the sound would
switch to Line in on my sound card and the volume could be controlled with
the line in slider on the Sound Max control panel. Now for some reason it
plays through the Wave slider on the control panel. It even plays when I
disable the Line Input.

I think is some configuration I selected wrong when I installed the ATI AIW
software.

Oldspook

 

[Paul Murphy]

I have the AIW 9800 installed in a P4 3.2, Asus P4C800-E. It was working
great, TV and everything. Then I had a hard drive crash and had to
reinstall everything. Everything is back to normal except the TV.

I have my digital cable box connected to the AIW through the S-video and
stereo audio. The audio in plugged in the mother board onboard sound Line
In input. Before the crash, when I watched TV on the computer, the sound
would switch to Line in on my sound card and the volume could be
controlled with the line in slider on the Sound Max control panel. Now for
some reason it plays through the Wave slider on the control panel. It even
plays when I disable the Line Input.

I think is some configuration I selected wrong when I installed the ATI
AIW software.

Oldspook

The latest drivers for the AIW 9800 Pro in conjunction with the latest MMC
support have changed to allow sound transfer through the PCI bus (a bit like
playing audio CDs on your PC under Win XP without having to connect the DVD
Drive to your soundcard anymore). Apparently this only works with AIWs that
use the Theatre 200 chip though/some newish cards and not all All In Wonder
Radeon based products. I'm sure if you search ATIs website and or read the
Driver/MMC readme files there will be something about it. Personally all 3
of my All In Wonders Radeons are pre Theatre 200 era so I'm still stuck
using the cables as you've described.

Have you tried setting it up again with the audio cable unplugged/removed
from the motherboards onboard line in?

Paul

 

[jbarber]

You need to go to tv/setup/display/initialization and this time select
line-in as the sound input.

James

 

[Oldspook]

I went to tv/setup/display/ then the Initialization Wizard button. I
couldn't find anyplace to select "line-in as the sound input. Can you tell
me exactly how to find it?

Oldspook

 

[Paul Murphy]

I went to tv/setup/display/ then the Initialization Wizard button. I
couldn't find anyplace to select "line-in as the sound input. Can you tell
me exactly how to find it?

Oldspook

The part of MMC installation where the audio settings are configured comes
either before or after the scan - I cant remember now. If you run the scan
though you'll loose your channel settings and I don't want that on my
machine. Given you've set it up to use a cable though and the drivers now no
longer need a cable, I'd suggest that you just uninstall MMC and the drivers
then install the newest versions of both after disconnecting that audio
cable.

Paul
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[Oldspook]

I don't use the TV tuner in the AIW. I use the S-Video inputs and audio
inputs because I have a digital cable box. If I used the AIW tuner I would
only have the analog channels.

I seem to remember when I was first installing MMC it did ask me how about
audio inputs. Now I can't find it. I even uninstalled MMC and reinstalled
it, but it didn't ask about audio again. Must be the configuration is
already stored in the win registery so it will never ask again.

Oldspook

 

[Paul Murphy]

I don't use the TV tuner in the AIW. I use the S-Video inputs and audio
inputs because I have a digital cable box. If I used the AIW tuner I would
only have the analog channels.

I seem to remember when I was first installing MMC it did ask me how about
audio inputs. Now I can't find it. I even uninstalled MMC and reinstalled
it, but it didn't ask about audio again. Must be the configuration is
already stored in the win registery so it will never ask again.

Oldspook

Perhaps that's what's provided with the newer drivers which provide audio
transfer through the PCI bus - that would make sense. Unfortunately I cant
test this as my cards are all to old to support this development (and
besides, I'm happy with my current setup).

Did you disconnect your old audio cable joining the AIW to your sound header
before the reinstall? If so, how is it working now?

Paul

 

[jbarber]

Sorry, I took so long to check back. If you have found the wizard then you
run it through. 1st it will ask to scan channels, you can press next and
after a few nexts you will arrive at the sound initialization wizard and
there you select line-in. I just verified this on my aiw 9800 pro and it
works fine. I did not run the auto scan to verify so I am not sure if you
need to do that. You can bypass it but I don't know if that will lose the
previously scanned channels. If you are still stuck after this, I will run
it in order to provide the answer.

James