SP3 and your AiW - good or bad?

H3X4D3C1M4L · May 29, 2008, 12:00 AM

With the recent release of SP3 I decided to fire up my X800XT AiW again. So far the experience has been totally positive.... a stock SP3 with the software that came on my CD yielded a flawless MMC experience... it all works. Conversely using the software on ATI/AMD's site yielded a "can't find the tuner" message (when I know that the tuner driver is installed).

Has anyone else tried their AiW on SP3? I'm interested to hear experiences good and bad.

Judas · May 29, 2008, 12:05 PM

that's good news...

but i've been without a AIW for about 4 months now since i basically gave up..

however i was hoping SP1 for vista and AIW support in windows supplied MMC would work..... however no news thus far....

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jun 25, 2008, 12:40 AM

I don't think it will actually work with the built in Multimedia Center in Vista.

I was however looking for XP SP3 feedback

Melissa2008B · Jul 30, 2008, 11:17 PM

Hi folks,

I'm new to this board and don't know how to find the first posts of this thread, but a few days ago, I installed SP3 and I've had an All In Wonder 128 Pro for several years, and since installing SP3 I'm getting weird computer noises impinging on the audio. Is there any fix for this?

Judas · Jul 31, 2008, 03:33 PM

unfortuneately i'm not sure what's going on there for you melissa..

however i just received a older computer containing a radeon 7500 aiw.

and i just installed xp sp3 and i must say, suddenly things are working properly for the people that had this machine.... they said ever since Sp1, the machines AIW functions stopped working well.

currently using the 6.11 drivers

with the older MMC

Melissa2008B · Aug 1, 2008, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

unfortuneately i'm not sure what's going on there for you melissa..

however i just received a older computer containing a radeon 7500 aiw.

and i just installed xp sp3 and i must say, suddenly things are working properly for the people that had this machine.... they said ever since Sp1, the machines AIW functions stopped working well.

currently using the 6.11 drivers

with the older MMC

Argh, I just found out what it was. I ALSO installed a new DVD burner ( no problem ) and a USB2 port PCI card. Guess where that went. RIGHT NEXT to the AIW! Argh!

Guess it's causing RFI. Gotta move it...

H3X4D3C1M4L · Aug 15, 2008, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Melissa2008B

Argh, I just found out what it was. I ALSO installed a new DVD burner ( no problem ) and a USB2 port PCI card. Guess where that went. RIGHT NEXT to the AIW! Argh!

Guess it's causing RFI. Gotta move it...

I don't think its RFI... you're probably looking at a DMA resource allocation issue.

nbarzgar · Oct 3, 2008, 09:17 AM

Hi there,

am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with the AiW X800GT (AGP; Format:PAL) and tried SP3, but I had problems with any driver I tried (tuner-problems mostly, if I remember correctly, about 3 months ago...*) and ended up re-installing Windows.
I decided not to try and use SP3 at all.

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* either tuner not found or tuning impossible...

H3X4D3C1M4L · Oct 7, 2008, 11:01 AM

So far that's the first time I've ever heard of that! Thanks for the feedback

G00k · Oct 9, 2008, 11:13 PM

It makes me want to set fire to my computer room.

I have a AIW 9600 that had been working fine for a couple years. I use Pinacle 9 to capture and edit from tape, and watch TV while doing other things on my PC. Never tried using it as a recorder from cable.

Anyway, I tried to bring the TV app up to watch whilst doing something else, and there's no video. Sound's okay, but black screen. If I click on the channel surf button, I get a second of video displayed before it jumps into the thumbnails. (the thumbnails display).

I D/L'ed the Catalyst drivers and MMC packages, removed all the old stuff, rebooted and began to load the new stuff - no joy. Went to the website, looked at the knowledge base (looks like remmove / reinstall is the bulk of their advice.)

I opened a ticket, got told to do it again. asked for other ideaS, and they gave me a different apge of downloads that look like older stuff. Installed that - hey, it worked! Shutdown for the night. The next morning, I powered up - XP finds new hardware; the upshot?: TV doesn't work (no picture). Tried removal / reinstall again - works for a while, the next day it doesn't. Asked if SP3 had known issues with the AIW - the half answer: it could be, but they didn't recommend backing it out. I backed it out anyway - removed/ reinstalled new version: no joy. Put back the older version - it's working for now. Oh, and the install programs on the newer group of drivers, etc, seem to blow up - eg: "mmccfg.exe encountered a problem and had to be shut down." It's sucking bad now.

Now it makes me wonder- is there an alternative to some of the ATI software? I thought I saw something out in this group, but can't find it again. It would probably be best to go that route since ATI seems to be opaque.

Whatdya think?

G00k