Ticking Noise with AIW X800GT

[William Angelo]

With TV display and composite capture using this card, I get a regular
clicking noise through the speakers - quite loud with a period of around 1.5
seconds between clicks. I've tried substituting a decent soundcard (Turtle
Beach) for the onboard NVidia chipset with no luck.

Playing files, mp3 etc. it doesn't happen and neither does it affect DVDs or
games. I seem to remember something similar ages ago with an AIW9000, which
was fixed by changing the sound source in the initialisation. Sadly, this
option is missing from MMC after 9.08 and 9.08 isn't compatible with this
card.

Any ideas?

 

[William Angelo]

Actually, forget the ticking noise.

Now on day 4 of trying to get TV to start AT ALL. After upgrading to the
latest Catalyst & MMC, scrupulously following the instructions, I now have
the imfamous "the TV player failed to initialize the video". I am devoid of
ideas - even the old CAT/MMC combination won't work now and system restore
failed.

Can anybody tell me how to get my old noisy system back?

 

[T Shadow]

Actually, forget the ticking noise.

Now on day 4 of trying to get TV to start AT ALL. After upgrading to the
latest Catalyst & MMC, scrupulously following the instructions, I now have
the imfamous "the TV player failed to initialize the video". I am devoid of
ideas - even the old CAT/MMC combination won't work now and system restore
failed.

Can anybody tell me how to get my old noisy system back?

I think with MMC9.15 the most likely reason you'd get the "the TV player
failed to initialize the video". message is that the encoder didn't install
properly. On my first install I forgot to put it in my list.

If your going to go to an older version you should do a manual clean up per
ati.com/install. Installation/cleaning has gotten long enough that I've
copied the instructions into an .rtf file edited it to the necessary parts
for my system and printed it out as a check list when doing installs. 13
steps on my system including the AIW & HDTV Wonder but not the RW or .NET.
Good Grief!
If you wanted to try 9.15 again a manual cleaning would be a good idea for
it too. Never had clicking but drivers for my Audigy2 get hosed about 20% of
the time installing ATI. Now that I think about it, on one install only
partial words were produced. Taken to extreme that might sound like
clicking. Reinstalling sound card drivers cured that.
Good Luck.

 

[William Angelo]

Thanks for your reply. I tend to agree that the likely cause is the new
unified encoder/decoder not installing properly. This would explain why no
other TV or capture apps are detecting a device either.

I also keep a printed checklist which I follow to the letter. Unfortunately,
it didn't help me this time and I have a suspicion that the flawed install
damaged DirectShow in some way as dxdiag fails on the DirectShow phase.

Sadly none of the attempts to remove/reinstall the drivers and to refresh
DirectX have achieved anything and I have the distinct feeling that I am now
digging myself into a deeper hole with everything I try!

 

[T Shadow]

I also keep a printed checklist which I follow to the letter. Unfortunately,
it didn't help me this time and I have a suspicion that the flawed install
damaged DirectShow in some way as dxdiag fails on the DirectShow phase.

Sadly none of the attempts to remove/reinstall the drivers and to refresh
DirectX have achieved anything and I have the distinct feeling that I am now
digging myself into a deeper hole with everything I try!

Me thinks you'll have to deal with that first.
Good Luck.