Re: ATI HDTV Wonder Problem

From: TravisR100 (TravisR100_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:47:01 -0700

Just wanted to give an update to all who might need the info. As stated in
my previous post I installed an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Even after downloading
the drivers from windows update (which had a driver date of 12/2003) I
couldn't get the card to work because MCE would give an error of
"incomaptible card or driver." A download of the latest Catalyst driver from
ATI fixed that problem. Additionally the installation of the 9800 fixed the
problem I was experiencing that started this thread in the first place. So,
it was indeed an underpowered graphics card. Good info. Additionally I
still don't know which decoder software I'm running. I assume that it's the
WinDVD software since I installed the WinDVD6 software that I purchased.
Hope this info helps.

"TravisR100" wrote:

> As far as I know I'm still using the same ones. I downloaded only the driver
> updates that MS had listed. I didn't install any ATI software or drivers from
> their CD's or their site. I've now got a new problem however. Based on the
> previous post I went and bought an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card. I installed it,
> downloaded the driver updates from windowsupdate and now when I start MCE it
> says "Video card or drivers not compatible with Media Center." Ugh! Any
> clues here?
>
> "JW" wrote:
>
> > I meant did you get a new DVD decoder with the ATI driver updates or are you
> > still using the same one as you used with the NTSC (SD) TV card. I have
> > seen that other HD card users have switched to a new NVIDIA DVD decoder.
> >
> > "TravisR100" <TravisR100@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:812E41EF-6DE5-4F07-8FD6-A959015447D7@microsoft.com...
> > > It varies. I resized the Media Center window to about 1/8th of the screen
> > > size (running 1280x768) and when I do that I get about 1 frame every 8
> > > seconds as opposed to 1 frame every 60 to 90 seconds with it in full
> > > screen
> > > mode. The cpu utilization really varies. It's jumpy since even task
> > > manager
> > > is only refreshing every 8 seconds or so along with the video frames. But
> > > it
> > > seems to work the CPU pretty good with utilization split between system
> > > idle
> > > process, eshell.exe, and taskmanager.exe. Video processing power problem
> > > as
> > > other poster suggested? Did what update include a new DVD decoder? If
> > > you
> > > mean the MCE roll-up update I have no clue what it includes. There were
> > > no
> > > other updates per se except for the drivers that were automatically
> > > downloaded and installed from the Internet when I installed the ATI HDTV
> > > Wonder card.
> > >
> > > "JW" wrote:
> > >
> > >> What does your CPU utilization look like? It sounds like it might be
> > >> pegged.
> > >> Did the updates include a new DVD decoder capable of decoding the HD
> > >> MPEG2
> > >> files if not are you sure your old decoder will suffice?
> > >>
> > >> "TravisR100" <TravisR100@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:62DCC37E-A494-4484-8B3A-12539C180C26@microsoft.com...
> > >> > 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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