Because I have acquired a used computer that has one, and I’m having a hell of a time trying to get the software to work as advertised.
If anyone has experience using one of these beasties, I’ll elaborate about my problems.
Or maybe someone could point me to a general purpose graphic/tuner card forum where these things are addressed.
I’ve got one in my old computer, what are you trying to get it to do?
I had two iterations of these cards (long gone), what’s up?
They’ve been around at least 10 years. I’ve installed them in PC’s before. ATI has the drivers on their website. I heard ATI and AMD merged. Looks like they still have the drivers. The hard part is matching the model of your board. They’ve made several versions of this graphics card. Also, be sure you have the right driver for the right version of Windows.
If you’re trying to use the TV tuner it is analog and won’t work unless you’re feeding it an analog cable line or a digital tuner in which case you will have to keep it on channel 3/4 and use the external tuner box.
If you don’t have a particular version of Microsoft .NET Framework installed your ATI software will install without any errors and fail when you try to run it. There may be other prerequisites for All-in-Wonder cards too. Check these carefully… the software won’t check for you!
The newer ones have digital tuners. It might help if the OP could identify which version he has. Wikipedia has a handy-dandy chart: All-in-Wonder - Wikipedia
Play various video files from my computer to the tv, plus use it as a DVR.
It’s connected to analog cable. I may later add a converter box and an antenna using composite feed.
Where would I find this? (AFAIK, my XP is completely up to date, and add/remove shows .Net 2.0 SP@, .Net 3.0 SP2 and .Net 3.5 SP1.)
Anyway, thanks for the interest. The ATI/AMD lacks support forums, so I hope my fellow Dopers can help. Here’s the situation:
P4 2.53 GHz, XP home SP3, 40G C drive and 250G D drive, DVD reader and DVD r/w. The card is ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV. I have the manuals that came with it.
I used the ATI setup disk to install drivers etc. I seemed to be able to do most of what I tried, but the included File Player had no video. And using other players, I could get a clone of my monitor on my tv, except for the videos being played - that portion of the tv screen was snow.
So then I went here and dl’ed the catalyst suite, and here and dl’ed the DAO/MDAC, Encoder package and Multimedia Center, and installed them in order, restarting when prompted.
This is where the fun started. On boot, my monitor would display an error message saying mode not supported (something about horizontal and vertical refresh rate). I borrowed another monitor and changed something to get my monitor working, but I still didn’t get all the features I expected.
Somewhere in the help files (maybe here) I read that the original installation has to be removed before installing an update, so I did that. IIRC, I again ran into the unsupported mode problem, as well as missing features.
That’s where I am now. I am thinking of doing another complete uninstall and starting over, but maybe I’ll wait a couple of days until you all chew it over.
TIA
May not solve your problem , but never use the drivers that come on the disk with the card. They are always out of date. Download the latest drivers from ATI/AMD and install those.
I’m not sure how to work that advice in with what tried so far…
Download the newest available driver for your card from the ATI/AMD website.
Go to ‘control panel’ - ‘system’ - ‘device manager’. Find your card in the list of hardware, right click it and choose ‘uninstall’.
Reboot and install the driver you downloaded from the website.