MSI ti4400 VIVO no longer works, help!

[skyfire]

Last night I was playing around with recording the monitor output from the card to a VCR. I set nView to clone the monitor, and second output to the composit Video out on the dungle. After the recording, I switched the cables back, but didn't set the nView back to single monitor before doing the switch. Now either Video In nor Out works. With Video out, the card can't detect the second output device (VCR). And if I switch to video in, I get no images from the VCR.

I tried reboot, re-install the video capture drivers... Everything I can think of, and it's still not working. Did I just screw my card up for good? BTW, this is on Windows XP, which is supposed to detect the right display.

 

[FalseChristian]

It looks like you learned a hard lesson. Sorry to hear it. Your card is shot.

 

[dude]

Originally posted by: FalseChristian
It looks like you learned a hard lesson. Sorry to hear it. Your card is shot.

Ok, so what's the lesson?!? Don't use the hardware as it was intended?

If possible, try installing on a different system and trying it out. If that doesn't work, I think the solder points have broken off. This can happen from wiggling (unplugging and pluggin) too much or bad soldering, most likely due to hand soldering or cold soldering after the product didn't pass QC (refurbishing?).

 

[Atif]

I'm having the EXACT same problem. I'm using Gainward's Ultra 700XP (Ti4400) and Windows XP.

I was messing around two days ago with the TV-Output (which makes use of nView) and now, when I try to capture any video, I just see a solid black screen in WinCoder, WinDVR and Windows Movie Maker. The connections are properly set (Composite video, properly plugged into card). If you get any progress in fixing this annoying issue, please let me know. I'll be sure to contact you if I work around it as well.

Peace

 

[Atif]

I hope you got your VIVO working. I found out that my Video-Out quality was bad and my Video-In wasn't working at all because I was using an incorrect VIVO dongle. I was using a dongle from Gainward's GF3 card instead of the dongle that came with my Ti4400. I switched the cable this morning and all is well.

Yeah!

 

[whiteboyatcal]

Yeah, the first thing I would check it the dongle. Second the S-Video connectors. It's not that hard to break the small wires inside an S-Video cable.