T200 WDM Driver causes BSOD during gaming and TV watching

The_Chrome_Coyote

Hey all, Im rather new to the ATI family, and I was wondering if you guys could lend me a hand trying to figgure this problem out.

A friend of mine needed a new graphics card, and mentioned he also wanted to watch TV on his computer. I mentioned that ATI had an AiW solution, and that they actually have a new version for 2006 that that uses the AGP slot. SO he bought the x1300 AiW 2006 and we got down to installation.

System:
Athlon XP Barton 2500+
1GB DDR 333
Asus Av8nx-x Mobo (via based chipset with latest Hyperion drivers, and updated bios)
Old Card was geforce 5700U
No sound card aside onboard sound

Stripped the Nvidia Drivers from the computer using DC pro, and then rebooted in safe mode to remove the rest of the Nvidia drivers that DC didnt catch at first.

Installed the whole ATI suite. Catalyst 6.9, MMC 9.15, CCC, and all codecs and drivers from the installation CD that came with the card. First problem was that everytime I started the TV tuner in MMC, the system would BSOD with a 'ati2dvag' infinite loop error. Then it would occassionally do the same thing whenever viewing media through WMP.

I read in the developer notes that Via chipsets have an issue with latest catalyst drivers, so the workaround is to use 6.4 display drivers. So I stripped everything with ATI on it using DC, then safe mode to strip again. Installed Catalyst 6.9 suite again (which included the latest WDM (called t200) and codecs) and left out the CCC and MMC. I stripped the 6.9 display drivers from the system using DC both in normal and safe mode, and installed JUST the 6.4 display drivers overtop the latest WDM and codec drivers.

okay.. so I just installed Beyond TV demo because MMC sucks anyways. AND success! I could watch TV wihout crashing, and I even flipped channels rapidly, resized, minimized and maximized again and again to test the card. No problems. Rock Stable. BUT the second I tried booting City of Heros (his favorite game) artifacts were immediatly noticable, and the game crashed the display drivers, leaving the computer running fine, but with no signal going from the card to the monitor. Required a hard reset to fix.

So... what to do now? I stripped everything ATI again using DC, again in safe mode. Then I JUST installed the 6.4 catalyst display driver and 6.4 WDM (also called t200, but from march 06), but left out the CCC. Now the computer wont auto load the WDM drivers, requiring me to select one specifically from the list in device manager. BUT when the WDM is disabled, I can play games rock stable, but TV wont even initialize; then the second I enable it, I cant play games OR watch TV without a BSOD.

For the Record, Ive tried the generic "PCI to PCI bridge driver fix" which didnt work, and I cant up the voltage to the AGP slot to 1.7 with this mobo's BIOS (at least not that I can find). Short of a clean install of windows and a very regimented installation routine, I have tried everything in my arsenal. But Im not familiar with ATI cards enough to know common fixes for things like this.

If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. I plan on advising a return in exchange for a generic PCI tuner card and a delayed GPU upgrade if it cannot be resolved soon.

Thank you very much in advance for your time!

^_^

The_Chrome_Coyote

I just thought of something. I know that there are alternative WDM drivers for most generic TV tuners, but has anyone had any success with alternative WDM drivers for ATI AiW cards?

I heard of Omega Drivers, what is everyones' experience with their WDM?

Dyre Straits

First of all, welcome to Driverheaven!

As for the Omega Drivers, they do not supply any WDM drivers at all. They only instruct the user to download the WDM drivers from ATI for the particular version of drivers being used.

As for the T200 WDM drivers: I have had so many problems....as well as so many other people...that I've reverted to using the older MMC 8.8 that comes with the former WDM drivers. I found that, for the most part, any MMC 9.x is just too much trouble to deal with.

Then, I also read that ATI is planning to discontinue the All-in-Wonder cards anyway. So, I don't feel like banging my head against a wall for something that's going to become obsolete in a short time.

If you're a gamer, I can recommend the Omega drivers and the NGO Optimized drivers for gaming. Both come with Ray Adam's ATI Tray Tool which has some really good tweaking ability.

NGO does incorporate a WDM driver based on T200. As stated above, Omega's simply instruct the user to download them from ATi.

Good luck to you!

H3X4D3C1M4L

You can use the Omega's then a WDM_SP driver package (look at like Catalyst 4.10 downloads and the separate package installers they have)