Bateluer
Lifer
Since I've been having so much trouble getting this card to actually function, I thought I'd make a post to confirm that I have the card set up correctly.
At present, I have the included HD antenna hooked up the coax DTV connector on the card. The antenna is positioned at the same level as the closest window, approximately 4 feet away. I could probably get this closer with a longer cable. There is nothing else plugged into the HDTV Wonder card. As I understand it, the ATI purple break out box is for connecting VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, etc to the Wonder card, which I don't own at this time. I have the latest drivers installed from ATI's site as of 12 April 05.
Prior to this morning, under the TV Tab of the MMC config, the only capture source listed was 'No Default' Every time I attempted to start the DTV player from the ATI MMC 9.06 launcher, I receieve the message 'Could Not Initialize TV'. The MMC's PC Check was useless, telling me everything passed without incident. This morning, I found an obscure piece of T/S information that was added to the Path variable under the Environmental Variables button of the System applet. This added the following to the Capture source drop down box: 'ATI DTV Wonder Analog AV Capture' However, the results are the same, could not initialize.
At present, I have Direct TV from Qwest. From their cable box, they is a coax cable that brings the TV signal to a TV, which I plugged into the CATV port on the Wonder card. Attempting to initialize the TV player also failed, with the same message. And again, the ATI PC Check was useless.
My system specs are as follows:
WinXP Pro SP2
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
Intel P4 3.4E
1GB Corsair DDR400
Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample with Nvidia 71.84 reference drivers installed
1 WD 120GB hdd
2 Seagate 300GB hdds
Plextor 716A DVDRW
Plextor 504A DVDRW
Pioneer 16x DVDROM
Audigy LS sound card
Anyone have some insight on this? Most of what I've read point to the Nvidia based video card as the culprit, since I don't even get a blank TV window. Then I heard that people were running Nvidia based cards using the HDTV Wonder under Windows Media Center Edition 2005 without incident. Omedadrivers.net is supposed to have their drivers based off the 71.84 references very soon, I was going to give those a try.
Also, if I were to buy a copy of MCE 2005, would it still function more or less as XP Pro functions, playing all my games, software etc? And what else, if anything, would I have to purchase to get this card to work under MCE?
Any other insight as to how to get this card to function?
Lastly, the new driver revisions from ATI have resolved some earilier errors I was having, the could not find DX9 installed issue, the 'could not find valid driver/Found New Hardware' issue were both resolved using the latest drivers.
At present, I have the included HD antenna hooked up the coax DTV connector on the card. The antenna is positioned at the same level as the closest window, approximately 4 feet away. I could probably get this closer with a longer cable. There is nothing else plugged into the HDTV Wonder card. As I understand it, the ATI purple break out box is for connecting VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, etc to the Wonder card, which I don't own at this time. I have the latest drivers installed from ATI's site as of 12 April 05.
Prior to this morning, under the TV Tab of the MMC config, the only capture source listed was 'No Default' Every time I attempted to start the DTV player from the ATI MMC 9.06 launcher, I receieve the message 'Could Not Initialize TV'. The MMC's PC Check was useless, telling me everything passed without incident. This morning, I found an obscure piece of T/S information that was added to the Path variable under the Environmental Variables button of the System applet. This added the following to the Capture source drop down box: 'ATI DTV Wonder Analog AV Capture' However, the results are the same, could not initialize.
At present, I have Direct TV from Qwest. From their cable box, they is a coax cable that brings the TV signal to a TV, which I plugged into the CATV port on the Wonder card. Attempting to initialize the TV player also failed, with the same message. And again, the ATI PC Check was useless.
My system specs are as follows:
WinXP Pro SP2
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
Intel P4 3.4E
1GB Corsair DDR400
Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample with Nvidia 71.84 reference drivers installed
1 WD 120GB hdd
2 Seagate 300GB hdds
Plextor 716A DVDRW
Plextor 504A DVDRW
Pioneer 16x DVDROM
Audigy LS sound card
Anyone have some insight on this? Most of what I've read point to the Nvidia based video card as the culprit, since I don't even get a blank TV window. Then I heard that people were running Nvidia based cards using the HDTV Wonder under Windows Media Center Edition 2005 without incident. Omedadrivers.net is supposed to have their drivers based off the 71.84 references very soon, I was going to give those a try.
Also, if I were to buy a copy of MCE 2005, would it still function more or less as XP Pro functions, playing all my games, software etc? And what else, if anything, would I have to purchase to get this card to work under MCE?
Any other insight as to how to get this card to function?
Lastly, the new driver revisions from ATI have resolved some earilier errors I was having, the could not find DX9 installed issue, the 'could not find valid driver/Found New Hardware' issue were both resolved using the latest drivers.
