More than 1 videocard kills the features!

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Was suprised to find out having more than 1 videocard it will disable
the other functions on the ATI All in Wonder !!!! Was told that it's
true for all "ALL IN WONDER Graphic videocards" TV part of it will
not work if you have another videocards but will work when u have it as
the only one videocard. I have 9800 All in Wonder pro and am mad about
this issue!!

John
 
I think you'd find it's only a problem if it's two ATI cards. I run a 7200
and an older Matrox and everything works as expected. Was nothing but
problems with TV-In when 2nd card was an eXpert 98.
 
John said:
Was suprised to find out having more than 1 videocard it will disable
the other functions on the ATI All in Wonder !!!! Was told that it's
true for all "ALL IN WONDER Graphic videocards" TV part of it will
not work if you have another videocards but will work when u have it as
the only one videocard. I have 9800 All in Wonder pro and am mad about
this issue!!

John
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so what you gonna do about it ? buy nvidia ? ha
do yourself a fav, next to you upgrade get a sep tv cap card thing
 
John said:
Was suprised to find out having more than 1 videocard it will disable
the other functions on the ATI All in Wonder !!!! Was told that it's
true for all "ALL IN WONDER Graphic videocards" TV part of it will
not work if you have another videocards but will work when u have it as
the only one videocard. I have 9800 All in Wonder pro and am mad about
this issue!!

John
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My X800XT AIW co-exists peacefully with my ATI TV Wonder VE. They work
quite well with each other.
 
Yup, separate video input is definitely way to go, if for no other reason
than cuts out all the extra crap updating video card driver.
..
 
That is not the same thing!

What John was talking about is adding another another graphic card so
he can have dual monitor setup.
 
I added nvida geforce 5500 pci card with dual vga output so I could
have more monitors to use on the same computer. Why do u need to buy
another 3rd TV video card while 9800 pro All in wonder has tv build
in already duh!. I should be able to watch tv with the primary AIW
(9800 pro).

I tried several older videocards and it doing the same thing ones with
8mb videoram..
John

here's what ATI Support said themselves
Richard C. The AIW card will not fully function with another video card
installed in your machine. For it to fully function it must be the
only video card in the system.
 
That is why I don't buy AIW anymore, I use a regular ATI graphic card,
almost all of them support dual monitors by default, and add a third
party TV capture card that support hardware encoding.
 
That's an interesting bit of information from ATI support regarding
the use of additional cards. I've been using a 2nd PCI video card
with my ATI Radeon 8500DV since it first came out. For a while I used
a ATI card, and more recently... I'm using a Matrox Millenium 200 PCI.

My only gripe when using a second card/monitor is that I can't slide
the TV window over into the Matrox's monitor! Of course, if I used
the Matrox as the primary card/monitor, and the ATI Radeon as the
secondary... that might make more sense as the Matrox graphics might
be a skoosh sharper. I also have a Matrox G400 dual head with two (2)
VGA outs... if I switched to that... I could power up three (3)
monitors.

I actually might try reversing my current primary/secondary but I just
finished a rebuild and my motherboard is a Tyan Tiger 2460 with dual
MP processors... so I don't want to complicate too many things at
once. Right now I want to get my ATI remote working before I
introduce another variable.

But honestly... I've been a Matrox guy for a long time and this ATI...
I can't complain one bit.
 
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