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Hi,
After wasting six hours on trying to get the ATI All in Wonder 9800 to work against my LCD TV I give up... Apparently there is a bug in the drivers, preventing Windows to display if you are connecting with DVI. The bug was known back in 2003, so I am really irritated that it hasn't been fixed yet. Sending the card back to Overclockers and will get something else.
Please could you recommend a card that can take input from a Homechoice decoder (Homechoice is a greater London cable-through-ADSL provider)?
The TV comes through the telephone line, together with 1 MB of bandwidth for ADSL. It goes into the decoder box and comes out via a Scart which I connect to the TV (Sharp Acquos LCD).
Is there any way to channel this into my computer through a clever TV Card? I want to be able to record things, and to have a mini TV window up while working at the computer.
I am looking for good graphic performance too, but am not a serious gamer.
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"Johanna" <johanna@homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4197ef32$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk...
> Hi,
> After wasting six hours on trying to get the ATI All in Wonder 9800 to
> work against my LCD TV I give up... Apparently there is a bug in the
> drivers, preventing Windows to display if you are connecting with DVI.
> The bug was known back in 2003, so I am really irritated that it hasn't
> been fixed yet. Sending the card back to Overclockers and will get
> something else.
>
> Please could you recommend a card that can take input from a Homechoice
> decoder (Homechoice is a greater London cable-through-ADSL provider)?
>
> The TV comes through the telephone line, together with 1 MB of bandwidth
> for ADSL. It goes into the decoder box and comes out via a Scart which I
> connect to the TV (Sharp Acquos LCD).
> Is there any way to channel this into my computer through a clever TV
> Card? I want to be able to record things, and to have a mini TV window
> up while working at the computer.
> I am looking for good graphic performance too, but am not a serious gamer.
>
> Any tips appreciated!
>
> Jo
I have the patch here and I am quite happily using 9800se and pro cards on 2
systems with DVI TFT monitors?
Chris
Technical director CKCCOMPUSCRIPT
Apple Computers, Intel, Roland audio, ATI, Microsoft, Sun Solaris, Cisco and
Silicone Graphics.
Wholesale distributor and specialist audio visual computers and servers
FREE SUPPORT @,
http://www.ckccomp.plus.com/site/page.HTM ckccomp25@hotmail.com
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for responding.... I was going to send back my card today, but will try the patch first if you can send it, or a link to it?
But shouldn't the fix be incorporated with the latest drivers from ATI? (which I downloaded and installed). Those took me from v. 4.7 off the install CD to v. 4.11.
The behaviour corresponded to a bug which I found a long and very descriptive thread on, referring to v. 4.6 - 4.7 and saying "they will probably never fix it... " I felt stupid and cheated at having paid over £100 for something which I couldn't use.
Great site you have got by the way, will have a proper look later... !
Regards
Jo
Chris wrote:
> "Johanna" <johanna@homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4197ef32$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk...
> >>Hi,
>>After wasting six hours on trying to get the ATI All in Wonder 9800 to
>>work against my LCD TV I give up... Apparently there is a bug in the
>>drivers, preventing Windows to display if you are connecting with DVI.
>>The bug was known back in 2003, so I am really irritated that it hasn't
>>been fixed yet. Sending the card back to Overclockers and will get
>>something else.
>>
>>Please could you recommend a card that can take input from a Homechoice
>>decoder (Homechoice is a greater London cable-through-ADSL provider)?
>>
>>The TV comes through the telephone line, together with 1 MB of bandwidth
>>for ADSL. It goes into the decoder box and comes out via a Scart which I
>>connect to the TV (Sharp Acquos LCD).
>>Is there any way to channel this into my computer through a clever TV
>>Card? I want to be able to record things, and to have a mini TV window
>>up while working at the computer.
>>I am looking for good graphic performance too, but am not a serious gamer.
>>
>>Any tips appreciated!
>>
>>Jo
> > > I have the patch here and I am quite happily using 9800se and pro cards on 2
> systems with DVI TFT monitors?
> Chris
> Technical director CKCCOMPUSCRIPT
> Apple Computers, Intel, Roland audio, ATI, Microsoft, Sun Solaris, Cisco and
> Silicone Graphics.
> Wholesale distributor and specialist audio visual computers and servers
> FREE SUPPORT @,
> http://www.ckccomp.plus.com/site/page.HTM > ckccomp25@hotmail.com
> > >
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)
Hi Chris,
Thanks for responding.... I was going to send back my card today, but will try the patch first if you can send it, or a link to it?
But shouldn't the fix be incorporated with the latest drivers from ATI? (which I downloaded and installed). Those took me from v. 4.7 off the install CD to v. 4.11.
The behaviour corresponded to a bug which I found a long and very descriptive thread on, referring to v. 4.6 - 4.7 and saying "they will probably never fix it... " I felt stupid and cheated at having paid over £100 for something which I couldn't use.
Great site you have got by the way, will have a proper look later... !
Regards
Jo
Chris wrote:
> "Johanna" <johanna@homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4197ef32$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk...
> >>Hi,
>>After wasting six hours on trying to get the ATI All in Wonder 9800 to
>>work against my LCD TV I give up... Apparently there is a bug in the
>>drivers, preventing Windows to display if you are connecting with DVI.
>>The bug was known back in 2003, so I am really irritated that it hasn't
>>been fixed yet. Sending the card back to Overclockers and will get
>>something else.
>>
>>Please could you recommend a card that can take input from a Homechoice
>>decoder (Homechoice is a greater London cable-through-ADSL provider)?
>>
>>The TV comes through the telephone line, together with 1 MB of bandwidth
>>for ADSL. It goes into the decoder box and comes out via a Scart which I
>>connect to the TV (Sharp Acquos LCD).
>>Is there any way to channel this into my computer through a clever TV
>>Card? I want to be able to record things, and to have a mini TV window
>>up while working at the computer.
>>I am looking for good graphic performance too, but am not a serious gamer.
>>
>>Any tips appreciated!
>>
>>Jo
> > > I have the patch here and I am quite happily using 9800se and pro cards on 2
> systems with DVI TFT monitors?
> Chris
> Technical director CKCCOMPUSCRIPT
> Apple Computers, Intel, Roland audio, ATI, Microsoft, Sun Solaris, Cisco and
> Silicone Graphics.
> Wholesale distributor and specialist audio visual computers and servers
> FREE SUPPORT @,
> http://www.ckccomp.plus.com/site/page.HTM > ckccomp25@hotmail.com
> > >
