Re: ATI HDTV Wonder Problem

From: Ed Rich [MSFT] (edrich_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:22:05 -0700

What Video card do you have installed? I sounds like your video card is
underpowered. You ideally should have a minimum of a FX5700 or higher 

-- 
Ed Rich [MSFT]
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"TravisR100" <TravisR100@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:E9F92743-7DB4-4E68-ABB5-BAEB52980082@microsoft.com...
> Sorry for the multiple posts.  Every time I posted it says there was an 
> error
> and it was unable to post at this time.  If anyone can delete the 
> duplicates,
> please do.  Also wanted to add that I already installed the roll-up update
> and the latest Nvidia drivers from the Windows Update site as well.
>
> -Travis
>
> "TravisR100" wrote:
>
>> I'm running an HP m380n Media Center computer.  I've just recently 
>> upgraded
>> it to MCE2005.  After upgrade everything working fine.  Using the 
>> standard
>> tuner card in the system for my satellite STB through the S-video 
>> connection
>> for all of my channels.  I added an ATI HDTV Wonder card for the digital 
>> OTA
>> channels.  After adding the card the system identified it on reboot and
>> connected to the Internet to download the drivers for it.  I didn't 
>> install
>> any of the ATI software at all.  At this point the computer recognized 
>> the
>> card and installed all of the drivers.  I then went to the windowsupdate 
>> site
>> just to check to make sure there were no additional updates that needed 
>> to be
>> installed.  Upon starting MCE and going to the TV setup section I had a 
>> new
>> option to "Setup Digital TV signal." I went through that setup and it 
>> added
>> my local stations.  At this point, no problem.  I then went to view one 
>> of
>> the stations.  It brought up the picture but it was frozen.  The hard 
>> drive
>> light would stay lit and every 5 to 10 seconds it would load another 
>> frame.
>> The computer would appear to be locked up.  Ctl-alt-del seemed to do 
>> nothing
>> and pressing the green button on the remote seemed to do nothing.  In
>> actuality it did however. After about 30 seconds it would bring up the 
>> Media
>> Center main screen and would have the small video window in the lower 
>> left.
>> The small video window in the lower left however had the channel tuned 
>> and
>> was showing the video as it should just as it does with all the other
>> channels.  If I then clicked on the small video window it would again 
>> bring
>> up the frozen picture, I'd click the green button, and again it would 
>> after
>> about 30 seconds bring up the Media Center screen and the small video 
>> window
>> would be showing the channel just fine with no problems.  Does anyone 
>> have
>> any clue here?  I'm aware that you can get the frozen picture if you 
>> don't
>> have a good signal however this isn't the problem.  The computer is 
>> actually
>> "freezing up" whenever I try to show one of the new digital channels full
>> screen.  I went back through these newsgroups and did find another post 
>> about
>> how to download the latest drivers for this card by going to the v4 
>> version
>> of windows update and selecting the card from the list and downloading 
>> the
>> .cab file.  I did this although it didn't matter since Windows had indeed
>> already downloaded the same version of these drivers when it installed 
>> the
>> card.  These were the drivers dated 9/23 and posted 10/12 or 10/14 if 
>> memory
>> serves me correctly.  So, I'm at a loss here.  Any help is much 
>> appreciated.
>> Oh, and system is a 3.0 Ghz P4 with 512MB of memory.  No other programs 
>> are
>> running when I'm trying to view the channel.
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