I'm Going to Murder ATI WDM Drivers

phaeton · Sep 8, 2005, 10:08 AM

OK, I have had _ZERO_ luck getting ATI TV or the TV capture device to work on my 9800 Pro AIW for the last SIX months.

I was on Windows 2003, and it worked extremely laggy with VirtualDub, but the ATI TV Player would ALWAYS fail to initialize, even though all WDM drivers were installed fine.

So, I formatted my machine, put Windows XP SP2 Professional on there, and this is a clean clean clean install, I put all the ATI drivers in, and lo and behold, the bloody ATI TV won't start AGAIN. Different OS, brand new drivers... I've tried everything I could possibly find on this website, using SP drivers instead of NSP, nothing is bloody working. I'm very close to losing it, I bought this card for its multimedia capabilities, and I have never been able to use it.

ATI keeps referring me to the knowledge base, which has no good information. I'm so close to losing it on this card, does ANYONE have any ideas on what I could do? I have tried old WDM drivers, new WDM drivers, I'm cleaning between installs with DriverCleaner PE, I honestly am at my wits end.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Sep 8, 2005, 03:39 PM

Did you try older catalysts or just installing what came on the CD?

Dr. Zhivago · Sep 14, 2005, 10:00 PM

You probably have a bad card...

Try it on another motherboard and if the WDM drivers won't load there, it's the card. If they do, then it's a problem with your motherboard. Try a different PSU as well.