Hi, Nobody.
No TV on my AIW 9600. :>(
As it has been for a year now, since WinXP x64 first appeared. I can always
get support for the graphics card itself. But TV is the reason I bought the
AIW, rather than a plain 9600, and that hasn't been supported on anything
higher than WinXP x86 (32-bit). I've tried both the x86 and x64 versions of
every Vista beta build that I've received since last summer.
Support for the non-MMC aspects of the 9600 are built into Vista Beta 2.
Vista Setup detects the card and automatically installs drivers for it.
Device Manager reports the current version as:
RADEON 9600 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Driver Provider: ATI Technologies, Inc.
Driver Date: 4/26/2006
Driver Version: 7.7.9.0
Digital Signer: microsoft windows component publisher
I've stopped bothering to download drivers from ATI (after 6-1 and MMC 9.13)
because (1) the drivers built into Vista do fine for non-MMC and (2) drivers
that I've downloaded from ATI don't add anything - even with those, I STILL
can't watch TV on my computer monitor. When I try to install the MMC, my
computer goes through all the motions and it appears that they install. But
when I try to run the TV, an error tells me that MMC has not been installed.
As I recall, it actually says something like "it appears that MMC has not
been installed" and suggests I run Setup again. Recently, even on WinXP
x86, TV has stopped working and I'm too disgusted with it to try to fix it!
:>(
I'm not an audiophile, videophile or gamer, so other users might have a
different perspective.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x64 build 5384)
