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Hi, John.
Just to clarify for those who might be confused by Microsoft's typical
penchant for confusingly-similar names for quite different products...
There are TWO 64-bit versions of Windows XP (and Windows Server 2003), and
the names can get confusing.
The first is Windows Server 2003 64-bit Itanium Edition, which runs only on
the Itanium-based computers. This version of Windows is often referred to
as XP64.
The second WinXP version just became widely available in the last couple of
months. It is for the AMD64 chips and is officially known as Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition, or WinXP x64 for short.
It's hard to even find a mention of XP64 (for the Itanium) in Microsoft
pages now. (Not that anybody misses it.)
I've been running x64 for a month or two. And I've been checking the ATI
website frequently for support for my AIW 9600. (I retired my AIW 9000
because ATI said the new drivers would support 64-bit Windows only for
9500-and-up.) While the instructions from ATI are as complex and confusing
as ever, I've got the 5.6 drivers installed and they work well with the AIW
9600 and x64 (and with 32-bit WinXP in my dual-boot setup). But the 9.08
MMC does NOT work with my x64. When I dual-boot into 32-bit WinXP, I can
run the 9.08 MMC, but I've not found any MMC yet that works with x64. I
posted a question here a month ago (6/10/05) asking "Which MMC works with
WinXP x64?" - and have so far received no responses at all. A query to
ATI - Customer Care said there might be updated drivers in "about 3 weeks"
from 6/15/05, but I see no update posted as of today; the 9.08 MMC dated
5/17/05 is still there.
In WinXP Pro x64, the 5.6 drivers work. MMC 9.08 does not.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> nondisclosure007@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> et al,
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help on this one. Here's my question.
>>
>> I currently have a satalite box that I currently use to watch TV on my
>> PC. It connects to the PC via SVID and R - L audio. The video card it
>> connects to is a VERY ancient AGP AIW card (I've never replaced the
>> card because it's as steady as rock).
>>
>> Now I run into the problem of ATI not supporting my AIW in the x64 bit
>> arena.
>>
>> All I want to do is watch my satalite TV on my PC while I'm doing
>> 'stuff' on it. I don't need a tuner, just a video card that will let
>> me watch TV from the satalite box.
>>
>> Any idea's? Or am I stuck having to get a new AIW card?
>
> If you're running a 64-bit OS then it's probably time to upgrade the
> video.
>
> ATI is dragging their feet on 64-bit support--too busy adding bloatware to
> their control panel to be bothered with doing something unimportant like
> writing drivers I guess.
>
> The drivers that come in the box with XP64 are reported to support all the
> features necessary to run the 9600 or later AIWs (Microsoft did the port
> though so who knows how well it works), but they don't get connected to
> Media Player by default. To connect them you need to use a Microsoft
> utility called "graphedit"--it will take a while to figure out to to use
> it
> but once you have you'll find that it's a useful problem solver. There's
> some discussion of graphedit, not x64 specific but should be helpful,
> here:
> <http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33792569&highlight=x64+graphedit>.
>
> I've also seen a report that ChrisTV <http://www.chris-tv.com/> runs the
> AIWs under XP64 with the Microsoft drivers.
>
> From a fresh install of XP64 do you have unrecognized multimedia devices
> in
> Device Manager? If not then your board may very well have all the drivers
> installed and just need to have them connected to Media Player.
>
> ATI is not the only outfit dragging their feet on 64-bit by the
> way--nobody
> seems to have TV capture drivers out.
>
>> Again, Thanks in advance.
>> -Michael.
>
> --
> --John