ATI TV WONDER installation in W2K

[Giscardo]

I've had this ATI TV Wonder PCI card and a GF2MX AGP as my video card, running Win2K. I just reformatted my PC and put W2K on it, and I my TV Wonder was already working in XP for me so I didn't remove it from the PCI slot to install W2K. The problem is that it never recognized my ATI TV Wonder hardware. It shows three items in Device Manager listed as "Unknown Device". I downloaded the Multimedia Center 7.1 off ATI's website, and I can't actually install the drivers for the card. I remember that they worked for me before. I remember having to install dx8.0a and the video capture update for dx8 before installing the drivers, but I had already installed dx9, so I tried installing the TV Wonder drivers with just DX9, which didn't work....even when I choose to tell windows where the drivers for the "Unknown Hardware" are located, it says that it did not find an appropriate driver for the device. I had windows try to search for a driver for the device and i had it search the windows CD, the drive where I uncompressed the drivers to, and Windows Update. Windows didn't find any drivers for the device? Weird...

So I think I remember a previous installation of w2k ago that I had to remove the card and re-install windows without the card, <and here there may or may not have been a step to follow like installing some drivers or the dx8.0a video capture update maybe?>, and then re-install the TV Wonder card into the PCI slot, then boot back up and the drivers would be installed then install Multimedia Center and BAM we're done.

It's just been so long since I had to do this I've forgotten if this is what i have to do, or if there is an easier way to get windows to recognize the drivers for the device without reformatting again?

 

[vailr]

FYI, MS Windows Update has newer ATI TV Wonder drivers, than what are found at ATI's web site.
ATI Technologies Media Driver Version 6.13.0.2408
Download size: 59 KB
Supported hardware...
Ati Tv Wonder Video Capture
Ati Tv Wonder Audio Capture
Ati Tv Wonder Video Crossbar
Ati Tv Wonder Tv Tuner
Ati Tv Wonder Audio Crossbar
Device Manager shows date of 5 Nov 2002, for all 5 items.
Use the Rage3d.com forum for further TV Wonder info:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=24
I'd recommend using ATI's MMC 8.1 & DX9, (not MMC 7.1 or 7.6).
For TV viewing-only purposes, use dScaler 4.16. http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace/

 

[Giscardo]

Thanks for letting me know of the new drivers, but the problem isn't locating drivers, it's getting windows to install the drivers for the device. It seems that under device manager i should have an entry for "Multimedia Device" but All the ati tv wonder entries come up as "uknown device". This is the problem. I have drivers, and I tell windows wehre the drivers are located on my hard drive, and windows says they are not for my hardware and doesn't install them. What can I do? Do i have to remove the card and reinstall windows?

 

[Staples]

That card is buggy as hell. Just to let you know, I have gotten it to work under win2k but it doesn't (or at least I have not) under XP. I suggest getting a Leadtek TV card, they work very well but they are mono.

 

[Giscardo]

UPDATE-- FIXED THE PROBLEM
I checked under sound and video controllers (the three Unknown Devices were listed under "Other") and I saw devices for ATI TV Wonder Audio capture and video capture, and one more. I uninstalled them, uninstalled the Unknown Devices, then did a search for new hardware. This time it found a Multimedia Controller instead of an Unknown Device, and it was finally able to install the new drivers for the card. So everything works now.

BTW I did get the card working in XP. What problem did you have with it in XP? There is still the annoying problem that I have to either hold down shift, or click on my desktop when the MMC is starting up, or switch resolution while it's running, in order to avoid getting a scrambled picture. Annoying but not that big a deal for me.