Re: TV Card Problems

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From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/05/04


Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:38:53 -0600

It sounds like your PC doesn't have nearly the necessary hardware to do
all the video processing required in addition to the overhead required
to run the Windows 2000 operating system. Reinstall Windows 98 or
upgrade the processor to 500mhz+ in addition to the intended memory install.

Turk wrote:

> Hi there. I hope someone can help but I'm afraid it might
> just be a probelm with my system. Anyway, I'm having a
> hard time getting my TV Card to work. I've got a ATI TV-
> Wonder VE (an older card). My machine is older as well--A
> Gateway G6-233 running 96MB RAM (I'll be upgrading to
> 384MB shortly). We recently had to restroe the computer
> due to a virus and installed Windows 2000. I installed the
> ATI MMC 7.1 and the required drivers. The TV card is
> recognized and the picture is received, but the reception
> is not too good. It is very herky/jerky. When I load the
> TV viewer I received the following message: "Video Capture
> and TV-on-Demand Performance will be degraded on this
> system as DMA for the hard disk is not enabled. Please
> check the System Setting in the Windows Control Panel for
> the following devices "IOMEGA ZIP 100". This is obviously
> my ZIP disc. However, when I check in the Control Panel I
> don't see anything out of the ordinary. So, I'm hoping
> that someone might have some insight into what I can do to
> improve the performance of the TV tuner. Please feel free
> to post a reply here or e-mail me
> at "mjtyrkus@hotmail.com". Thanks in advance for your help.
>



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