AIW TV goes black when 2nd monitor activated

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ATI (AGP) AIW 128 Pro TV display goes black when 2nd monitor on ATI (PCI)
Rage 128 is activated. TV displays perfectly, but when secondary monitor is
activated the TV window goes black, audio continues to work. By activation
I mean ..... clicking on "Extend my Windows desktop to this monitor" in
the "Display Properties" pop-up. TV display will start working again if
secondary monitor is disable, and PC rebooted, and TV is selected again.

AGP is primary and PCI is secondary monitor in PCI slot #1.
OS is Win XP Home (SP-2)
Latest ATI drivers are on both AGP and PCI card.
Latest Multi Media Center v 7.2 is installed.
Motherboard is ASUS A7N8X-E, but had same problem with ASUS A7V motherboard.

Any Ideas?
 
Joe101 said:
ATI (AGP) AIW 128 Pro TV display goes black when 2nd monitor on ATI (PCI)
Rage 128 is activated. TV displays perfectly, but when secondary monitor is
activated the TV window goes black, audio continues to work. By activation
I mean ..... clicking on "Extend my Windows desktop to this monitor" in
the "Display Properties" pop-up. TV display will start working again if
secondary monitor is disable, and PC rebooted, and TV is selected again.

AGP is primary and PCI is secondary monitor in PCI slot #1.
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Just a general piece of advise: check your MoBo manual whether the AGP slot
and the first PCI slot share some resources. They (or AGP slot and some
other PCI slot) often do, and in general you should avoid having two
vidcards in these "connected" slots to avoid some wierdo problems like you
are experimenting. So, swap the PCI card in another slot and see if it
helps. You might also dedicate an IRQ of their own to each vidcard, if you
can afford it.
OS is Win XP Home (SP-2)
Latest ATI drivers are on both AGP and PCI card.
Latest Multi Media Center v 7.2 is installed.
Motherboard is ASUS A7N8X-E, but had same problem with ASUS A7V motherboard.

Any Ideas?
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My two cents worth :-)
 
Microsoft "help" on multi monitors with both AGP and PCI says to use 1st PCI
slot. Microsoft says Rage 128 is supported as multimonitor 2nd monitor.
Slot #1, # 5 and WiFi slot use the same PCI_int_A, slot 5 is empty and have
no WiFi. When checking "Device Manager", I see "No Conflict" displayed for
both cards. What seem strange is that "Resources" show IRQ 19 on AGP and
IRQ 16 on PCI.....I thought there were only 16 IRQs (0 thru15)???
 
Joe101 said:
ATI (AGP) AIW 128 Pro TV display goes black when 2nd monitor on ATI (PCI)
Rage 128 is activated. -SNIP-

Motherboard is ASUS A7N8X-E, but had same problem with ASUS A7V motherboard.

Any Ideas?
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Just FYI, I have a Radeon 9600 AIW Pro, AGP and it also malfunctions.
ATI drivers just do not work well when the second display is enabled.
As long as the TV remains on the original monitor and I don't try to
change anything in the setup it does work, but woe betide me if I
should try to alter anything. Best case, I have to reboot. Worst
case, I have a hard lookup that only a forced power down will fix!

I think one of my other systems with a non-Radeon AIW Pro operated
in the same manner....poorly, when it came to multiple displays!

Paul ( I have the same ASUS A7N8X MB. )
 
Paul,

It's good to hear that I am not the only one, and newer ATI AIW cards also
do the same. I hope ATI is monitoring this string and can help. I agree
with your comment ...... "ATI drivers just do not work well when the second
display is enabled".

I can watch TV or use the 2nd monitor but only one at time. And must also
disable TV or 2nd monitor first before switching. Trying to use both locks
up on me also, and requires a re-boot.

I have tried 3 different PCI slot 1, 4, and 5 which have no conflicts with
other stuff according to the ASUS A7N8X-E technical manual.

Paul, you did not mention the PCI card you are using as 2nd monitor. I am
using a ATI PCI Expert 128 (Rage 128 chip).

Joe
 
Joe101 wrote:
-SNIP-
Paul, you did not mention the PCI card you are using as 2nd monitor. I am
using a ATI PCI Expert 128 (Rage 128 chip).

Joe
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Joe,
The Radeon 9600 AIW Pro has dual outputs so it can drive
two monitors from the same card. No need for a second one.
My other system with the older AIWPro also has this capability.
Now if there were just some decent drivers available so that
I could USE the 2nd monitor without fear of hard lockups I'd
be alot happier. As it is, I rarely use that feature. I watch
TV in a window on my primary monitor whilst I work in other
windows on the same display.

Paul
 
FWIW, I'm seeing the same issue with my AIW X700 Pro (PCIe) card -- TV goes
black when secondary monitor is activated.

(MMC9.03, Catalyst 5.1, on an A-Bit AA8 Duramax)
 
I emailed ATI support for help and got an immediate reply from their mail
robot that I would soon get an answer. Guess what .....STILL WAITING
 
I have the ALL-In_Wonder 128 PCI video card and a Xabre AGP video card. With Windows XP pro the TV goes black when I enable the 2nd monitor. The audio is still available but there is no picture. The TV function will work if the second card/monitor is disabled.
This very same setup work fine with Windows 98SE and Windows 2000. I was able to have multable monitors and have the TV working on the primary display. Nothing has changed with the hardware. XP pro with service pack 2 is the only new thing. I have down loaded and tried all the lastes drivers from ATI and direct X. If I down rev back to windows 2000 the TV will work with the second monitored enabled.

If I do the TV setup with the 2nd monitor enabled I get channel not found. I do however get sound for the channels.
If i do the TV setup with the 2nd monitor disabled I get channel found and the TV works with no problems.
Once again this setup works with windows 2000 and windows 98se.
 
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