I just re-installed Win98 SE on my 900mhz Duron box. Flashed the bios on my A7V and dloaded the latest drivers for everything. I dloaded the most current beta drivers for my Radeon 32mb DDR. I also dloaded ATI'd DVD Player 4.1 and installed that. I seem to be having quite a few problems.
Problem 1: Video quality seems pretty bad. There is a lot of color banding in darker scenes, almost looks like a 16bit image or something. Are there better drivers for DVD playback? Can somebody share the 'best settings' on their ATI card and/or DVDGenie? The overlay seems to be off by a bit also.
Problem 2: I can't get the 4channel downmixing to work. I have the most recent SBLive drivers and the 4.1 Logitech speaker system. If I set DVDGenie to downmix to 4channels it doesn't seperate the rear channels. I'm using the THX Audio test on my T2 DVD to test. Any ideas?
Problem 3: More a hardware issue than anything. Everytime I check the DMA box for my Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD player, as soon as I reboot the computer it comes back unchecked. When I go to my Asus A7V bios page, and select the DVD player, it says DMA Mode DISABLED. For the life of me I can't get it to enable DMA mode. If its set at Auto Detect, it automatically disables it. Should I go to an older version of the BIOS?
What I'd like to do is play DVDs with my ATI player, using the Radeon's DVD decoding, w/ 4.1 channel sound. Is that too much to ask!?
Any advice would be greatly apprecaited.
Duron Box:
Asus A7V @ 133mhz FSB
256mb PC133
Duron 600 o/c to 900mhz
ATI Radeon 32mb DDR
SBLive Value
Intel PCI 10/100
IBM 30gb 7200rpm
Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD-rom
Logitech Z560 THX 4.1
Problem 1: Video quality seems pretty bad. There is a lot of color banding in darker scenes, almost looks like a 16bit image or something. Are there better drivers for DVD playback? Can somebody share the 'best settings' on their ATI card and/or DVDGenie? The overlay seems to be off by a bit also.
Problem 2: I can't get the 4channel downmixing to work. I have the most recent SBLive drivers and the 4.1 Logitech speaker system. If I set DVDGenie to downmix to 4channels it doesn't seperate the rear channels. I'm using the THX Audio test on my T2 DVD to test. Any ideas?
Problem 3: More a hardware issue than anything. Everytime I check the DMA box for my Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD player, as soon as I reboot the computer it comes back unchecked. When I go to my Asus A7V bios page, and select the DVD player, it says DMA Mode DISABLED. For the life of me I can't get it to enable DMA mode. If its set at Auto Detect, it automatically disables it. Should I go to an older version of the BIOS?
What I'd like to do is play DVDs with my ATI player, using the Radeon's DVD decoding, w/ 4.1 channel sound. Is that too much to ask!?
Any advice would be greatly apprecaited.
Duron Box:
Asus A7V @ 133mhz FSB
256mb PC133
Duron 600 o/c to 900mhz
ATI Radeon 32mb DDR
SBLive Value
Intel PCI 10/100
IBM 30gb 7200rpm
Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD-rom
Logitech Z560 THX 4.1
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