R9000 and PCI TV Card

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Let me try this again. I have a Radeon 9000 video card and a AT TV PCI card.
I am running Windows 98 SE. When I try to launch the TV application I get
"The TV Player failed to initialize video" error.

I have tried every fix for this error on the ATI site and nothing has
worked. Does anyone have this combination working in any OS?
 
Are you sure your card(s) are supported by Win98SE?

I was disgruntled to find that my AIW 8500DV was not supported by 98SE. I
had to install XP or ME to get it to work.
 
Vance McNeil said:
Are you sure your card(s) are supported by Win98SE?

I was disgruntled to find that my AIW 8500DV was not supported by 98SE. I
had to install XP or ME to get it to work.
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As far as I know yes. They PCI TV card worked fine with Win 98 SE with my
old AGP Voodoo video card. I recently upgraded to a new Asus MB and had to
buy an AGP 4X video card. I bought the Radeon 9000 with hopes the TV card
would work with the ATI video card.
 
Skeptic said:
Let me try this again. I have a Radeon 9000 video card and a AT TV PCI card.
I am running Windows 98 SE. When I try to launch the TV application I get
"The TV Player failed to initialize video" error.

I have tried every fix for this error on the ATI site and nothing has
worked. Does anyone have this combination working in any OS?
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Have you tried different drivers? Sometimes the new drivers cause problems.
I was getting the same error with my AIW 9000 Pro. The only way I finally
got it to work was to restore a ghost image with just a basic configuration
and use the drivers that came with the CD. The latest ones wouldn't work.
 
It's been a while since I've meesed with 98, but I think this should hold
true. Go to Device manager and open "sound, video, and game controllers".
You should have these 3 (along with many other) things- Crossbar, Tuner and
Video capture items specific for your TV card. These have to be the 98
drivers, not XP or NT. I've found the best way to go about this kind of
problem is to remove the Crossbar, Tuner and Video capture devices mentioned
earlier, reboot, and direct your "new hardware found" wizard to the proper
location for the drivers. As a word of advice, I'd shitcan the ATI software
and go with WinDVR or Power VCR II. Better yet, I'd shitcan the ATI card
and get a Pixelview PlayTV+FM card. I paid $60 and got a better card-
higher resolution, remote, FM tuner, better software. Good luck.
 
One other thing- what mobo are you using? Some (like the A7A266 wth the
ALiMajik chipset) need to have the latest drivers to work.
 
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