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Harkhof
I just purchases an ATI AIW 9600TX. My previous card wasn an AIW 9000. I
used the 9000's uninstall utility to remove the 9000 and "all" ATI software.
Presumably, given that ATI cards balk at any traces of previous ATI cards,
the uninstall utility wiped up it's mess.
Relevant specs:
MSI NEO2 Plat
AMD 3500+
1024 MB Corsair (512x2)
XP SP2
Other DVD Decoder on machine:
WinDVD 4 (has always worked great).
After the 9000 uninstall, I restarted the machine, canceled out XP's
hardware detect and installed the 9700 from the CD. Everything appeared to
go fine with a few exceptions, the worst of which is that DVD's no longer
play (via ATI's player OR WinDVD). There seems to be a lot of trouble
reading the DVD disc and the movie just halts. Sometimes it will continue
for a few seconds and then freeze again, picture on screen. I tried updating
the DVD decoder with a newer one from ATI's site. No go. I tried
uninstalling ATI's decoder and using WinDVD. No go. I tried uninstalling
WinDVD and using ATI's DVD player, even though ATI's player has no added
features and is pretty much some pathetically written, cheap little app just
like ATI's other software solutions. No go.
Unless I get a viable solution here, I'll most likely remove the board and
restore an Acronis image I made prior to installing the 9600TX and return it
for a refund, after which I'll buy an Nvidia card and a decent PCI TV card.
Please don't tell me that the only solution is formatting and re-installing.
For one thing, if ATI expects all of its customers to jump through those
kinds of hoops to get any of their boards working, I expect them to go out
of business soon and will help that happen any way I can. For another, I
just did a complete re-install about one month ago (a long process on this
machine, since I use it for business), and I refuse to do it again because
the idiots at ATI can't write proper install routines. I shouldn't have to
go through all that for a board I paid $200 for. If I wanted to do ATI's
work for them, I'd apply for a job. <end rant>
Thanks for any ideas,
Hark
used the 9000's uninstall utility to remove the 9000 and "all" ATI software.
Presumably, given that ATI cards balk at any traces of previous ATI cards,
the uninstall utility wiped up it's mess.
Relevant specs:
MSI NEO2 Plat
AMD 3500+
1024 MB Corsair (512x2)
XP SP2
Other DVD Decoder on machine:
WinDVD 4 (has always worked great).
After the 9000 uninstall, I restarted the machine, canceled out XP's
hardware detect and installed the 9700 from the CD. Everything appeared to
go fine with a few exceptions, the worst of which is that DVD's no longer
play (via ATI's player OR WinDVD). There seems to be a lot of trouble
reading the DVD disc and the movie just halts. Sometimes it will continue
for a few seconds and then freeze again, picture on screen. I tried updating
the DVD decoder with a newer one from ATI's site. No go. I tried
uninstalling ATI's decoder and using WinDVD. No go. I tried uninstalling
WinDVD and using ATI's DVD player, even though ATI's player has no added
features and is pretty much some pathetically written, cheap little app just
like ATI's other software solutions. No go.
Unless I get a viable solution here, I'll most likely remove the board and
restore an Acronis image I made prior to installing the 9600TX and return it
for a refund, after which I'll buy an Nvidia card and a decent PCI TV card.
Please don't tell me that the only solution is formatting and re-installing.
For one thing, if ATI expects all of its customers to jump through those
kinds of hoops to get any of their boards working, I expect them to go out
of business soon and will help that happen any way I can. For another, I
just did a complete re-install about one month ago (a long process on this
machine, since I use it for business), and I refuse to do it again because
the idiots at ATI can't write proper install routines. I shouldn't have to
go through all that for a board I paid $200 for. If I wanted to do ATI's
work for them, I'd apply for a job. <end rant>
Thanks for any ideas,
Hark