tv wonder athlon barton

[Michael D]

I just put together a KT400 AthlonXP 2500+ Barton system. I am using
a TV Wonder PCI card with MMC and MDAC 7.9, driver 1.11.0.0 and
directX 9. The PC check failed the MMX, processor speed and ram tests
and the program is using 99% of my cpu resources when I watch tv. Has
anyone heard of incompatabilities with the new AMD chip or an ABIT
KT400 motherboard?

-Michael D.

 

[Cristian]

I've another KT400 on an Asus board that is not correctly working.
Not problems as serious as yours but seems to me is a chipset problem.
See my other post on this group. No solution yet encountered.
Regards,
Cristian.

 

[Michael D]

I just got home and it started up again, so it's not Nero. I think it
might be a conflict with my Matrox Millenium G450 using 2 monitors.
The problem seems to go away when I switch to one monitor, although
the pc check program still doesn't recognize the cpu as MMX or the ram
as over 64 megs. (I have one gig of ddr400 ram). I did not have this
problem when I was using the same video card and tv wonder on my
dragon board, but I did have lots of other problems.

-Michael

 

[Michael D]

It seems I have the directX 9b/MMC 7.9 problem conflict that I've seen
elsewhere on this board. I downloaded WinDVR3 and everything is
working fine although I really don't want to pay $80 dollars for it.

-Michael

 

[patrickp]

It seems I have the directX 9b/MMC 7.9 problem conflict that I've seen
elsewhere on this board. I downloaded WinDVR3 and everything is
working fine although I really don't want to pay $80 dollars for it.

-Michael

If "the pc check program" is ATi's configuration app, you can forget that -
it's notorious for getting things wrong.

The DX 9.0b issue seems to be quite specific: it only affects PAL users with
tuners, and the result is they can't access their TV channels; not at all
like the problems you've described unless there's an MMC 7.9 issue with DX
9.0b I haven't heard about. However, if you did have it, WinDVR wouldn't be
working, either: it apparently affects all TV software using a PAL tuner.

patrickp