9800 pro AIW TV problem

streetrdlvr

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Nov 26, 2005
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Hello, this is my first post.

I have a refurbed ATI branded 9800 pro AIW I have had since January. The card has beeen a champ. When I got the card, I only recieved the card, no cables, software,etc.. I just recently bought a sound cable so I can start using the TV feature of the card.

The problem I have is that the software for the tuner won't install. I downloaded the most recent AIW drivers from ATI in the bundle download(broadband) and the drivers for the AIW components installed OK(tv crossbar,etc....) according to the installer. During the install, I did not get any messages that there were any failures, but when it is completed, I don't have the TV toolbar anywhere on the desktop or any software in the program files.

Shortly after I bought the card, I was able to get the TV to work with no sound(since I had no cable at the time) so the tuner did work at one time.

I uninstalled all the ATI drivers and also used Driver cleaner to uninstall all ATI drivers before I installed the latest Catalyst. I also reinstalled the GART drivers on my Nforce 2 board.

My device manager shows no problems on any hardware.

As I said, no failed messages came up during installation, but while I was digging around in the ATI support file on my C drive, I found a notepad that indicated failures due to hardware not being found.

Currently, I am running Windows XP SP2 on a Chaintech 7NJL6 Nforce2 motherboard.

When I had the tuner working in the spring I had a Biostar M7NCD Ultra motherboard at the time.(NForce2 board as well)

I am stumped. Did my tuner on my card just die for no reason? Does this crappy Chaintech board(which has 0 temp sensors by the way) not like watchng TV? Did ATI decide that they were going to get my $20 in order to watch TV by overcharging me to buy a copy of MMC from them? (I didn't need MMC before)

Anyone have any ideas, or heard this problem before?

Thanks for your time.

 

Mloot

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Aug 24, 2002
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I had an AIW 9800 Pro recently, and I found that while I could install the latest Catalyst drivers, the latest MMC (9.8 or somesuch) would not install. At least, it would go through the entire installation procedure, there would be nothing in the Add/Remove programs, and I couldn't find it anywhere. I could, however, install MMC 9.6 and after that, the TV tuner worked just fine.

Just my 2 cents.