My what a fun time I had all the of the other night, sleeping finally about 8am. Surely the fault lies squarely with me, as I see no way Ati could intentionally make drivers this FUBAR.
Uninstalled the driver for my old 9200, shut down, pulled the card, popped in the 9800 pro I got from Forsale/Trade (thanks Saul), rebooted canceled the winders pop up, and ran the AIW install CD, and rebooted. No real problems, but Gemstar update reports that I need a new MMC version before it will install.
Off to the Ati site, download 9.15, and when DVD decoder tries to install, I get a confusing error, can't find the Atidec.msi file and unable to remove old decoder. Nothing is getting rid of the old Ati Decoder 2.2.0.0. I ended up downloading Advanced Uninstaller Pro, and sometime in the middle of using Add/remove program noticed an old Nvidia driver and removed it before twigging to my motherboard being an Nvidia chipset (that was busy, but minor to fix via downloading from another machine).
Apparently Ati has trouble with Service Pack 2, as many others on the net reported my same problem, but then threads just died like 2005ish with no solutions reported. Finally I found one with something to try, installing with command line via admin install. http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t23574.html Tommy V toward the end lays it out.
Works, with a few bits to polish like scheduled recording.
Uninstalled the driver for my old 9200, shut down, pulled the card, popped in the 9800 pro I got from Forsale/Trade (thanks Saul), rebooted canceled the winders pop up, and ran the AIW install CD, and rebooted. No real problems, but Gemstar update reports that I need a new MMC version before it will install.
Off to the Ati site, download 9.15, and when DVD decoder tries to install, I get a confusing error, can't find the Atidec.msi file and unable to remove old decoder. Nothing is getting rid of the old Ati Decoder 2.2.0.0. I ended up downloading Advanced Uninstaller Pro, and sometime in the middle of using Add/remove program noticed an old Nvidia driver and removed it before twigging to my motherboard being an Nvidia chipset (that was busy, but minor to fix via downloading from another machine).
Apparently Ati has trouble with Service Pack 2, as many others on the net reported my same problem, but then threads just died like 2005ish with no solutions reported. Finally I found one with something to try, installing with command line via admin install. http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t23574.html Tommy V toward the end lays it out.
Works, with a few bits to polish like scheduled recording.
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