tv tuner on older aiw

[Kim]

Hi everyone,
I'm on winxp pro sp2 stripped to the bones with directx 9.0c, equipped with aiw radeon 7500, its own
drivers, and mmc 7.5 just set up very well.
I can not find a workaround for my ati tv to work. It always says tv player failed to initialize the
video. The drop down video capture source list shows no default, driver is listed as unsupported,
but system compatibility check DOES NOT says something about problems encountered. I checked all
other mmc features and they work just very fine: dvd, player and cd. I enabled DCOM features on my
computer, too. Where do you think the problem resides ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ted F]

MMC 7.5 is too old, try the following :


Catalyst 5.11 Windows XP Drivers With Control Panel

ATI Multimedia Center 9.02 Suite
"OR"
ATI Multimedia Center 9.03 Suite

 

[Kim]

Thanks about your reply. I did clean install 5.11 and mmc 9.02 and the messages are the same except:
Directx components are not installed properly. But dxdiag tells me 9.0c is present. Can DirectX be
installed over DirectX ?


Le Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:28:16 GMT, dans alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, "Ted F"

 

[Ted F]

Yes, Directx can be reinstalled over the old, go to microsoft's website to
download Directx 9.0c and install.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

 

[Danny G.]

Yes, Directx can be reinstalled over the old, go to microsoft's website to download Directx 9.0c and install.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

If not DirectX then maybe WDM drivers.

Looks like the ATI download page for XP's readme file shows Catalyst 6.5 for the aiw 7500.

 

[Kim]

Le Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:22:20 GMT, dans alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, "Danny G."

If not DirectX then maybe WDM drivers.

Looks like the ATI download page for XP's readme file shows Catalyst 6.5 for the aiw 7500.

Thanks a lot everyone, I've been trying win2000, win xp, and win xp mce with different drivers, and
not a single success in starting ati tv occured. Last week the tv tuner was still working fine, it
really looks like the board did crash the tuner itself. In a last attempt i'll reset aiw radeon bios
up, have you heard of a place to get those ?

Kim

 

[Ted F]

Here's the website to get ATI BIOS flash files. Use with ""CAUTION""

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

 

[Danny G.]

Le Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:22:20 GMT, dans alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, "Danny G."

Thanks a lot everyone, I've been trying win2000, win xp, and win xp mce with different drivers, and
not a single success in starting ati tv occured. Last week the tv tuner was still working fine, it
really looks like the board did crash the tuner itself. In a last attempt i'll reset aiw radeon bios
up, have you heard of a place to get those ?

Kim

eek, Doing a clean install and updates to all the software in any one of those OS is a big project.
How in the world you could have correctly installed and tested the card and all software three times
in a few days like that is beyond me.


Maybe these knowledgebase articles at http://ati.com will help.

737-20561: Removing Old ATI Software
737-20429: Installing the Display Drivers
737-20913: How to Find the Drivers and Software for Your Product
737-20905: Uninstalling the Previous Multimedia Center Software
737-63: Troubleshooting "TV Player Failed to Initialize the Video" Error Message

GL
Dan