TV Wonder VE Freezing

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Noam Sela

Hi all,

I just recently got a new computer:
Intel Pentium 4 2.4
512 DDR
ATI Radeon DDR 64 MB card
The mother board is the ASUS P4S533-X which supports Hyper-Threading
and so forth...

I stuck the TV Wonder VE from the old computer into this one, installed the
latest drivers and the latest MMC, started it up, and it seemed to have no
problem. I couldn't believe how easy it was... Alas it was too good to be
true. I put MMC into fulll screen mode and within a few seconds the system
locked (ctrl-alt-del etc wouldn't work), however the sound was still going.
So I reset and tried it again, except this time instead of full screen, I
just made the screen bigger. I got the same result, within seconds it froze
the computer but sound kept playing.

So I went onto the ATI site and saw that there is an issue with some
Hyper-Threading motherboards.. only thing is that my cpu doesn't support
hyper threading (it's only a 2.4) and thus I can not enable/disable it in
the bios. This probably is not the issue- but maybe it is?
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4254.html is there a public fix for it
as of yet? (in case it is)

If it is not the issue- does anyone have any idea what could solve my
problem? It would be extremely frustrating watching TV in such a small
window. :)

Thanks in Advance,
Noam Sela
 
I think you are probably asking for a display size that is not compatible
with your monitor. I had similar problems with file playback. Yeah I know
that full screen should mean full screen, but that's one of the flaky things
about that card.
 
Only thing is- anything bigger than the default size (even just a touch)
freezes it...

Thanks though,
Noam Sela
 
I had a similar problem. I just picked up a tv wonder and was running 2000
pro upgraded to xp pro still no change. All drivers where up to date. I
moved it to a differant pci slot and It seems to have fixed it. Jay
 
Unfortunately, that didn't work... I tried two other slots and it didn't
work, any other ideas? I just have no clue where to go with this..

Thanks again,
Noam Sela
 
is your monitor named properly in Display Properties?

what have you set the Color and screen size to?
 
Yup- the monitor is named properly- it's just a plug and play
Resolutiong: 800x600
Color: 32 bit

Think it could have anything to do with the hyperthreading motherboard?

Thanks,
Noam Sela
 
well plug n play is not necessarily the correct driver/config file have you tried the manufacturers web site for the INF for that
particular model?(reaching but it would leave the card as the culprit)
lwr 32 to 16 just to see? although most video would be 32 I was wondering if you could achieve full screen with 16

Have you/can you tried the card in another machine?
 
16 bit color freezes too unfortunately
and also unfortunately the card did work in the old machine
the monitor is just one of the dayteks they used to sell at costco-
unfortunately it's the same monitor that I was using for the old machine,
with no driver (just plug and play).. so that's a no go as well.

This isn't looking too good eh? Should I try some 3rd party software
instead of ATI's MMC? maybe it would work and then I would at least know
that it's not driver or hardware but just a problem with MMC itself? Any
suggestions as to where I could get another peace of software that would
work with the TV Wonder VE- even if it is only a trial?

Thanks once again,
Noam Sela


JAD said:
well plug n play is not necessarily the correct driver/config file have
Click to expand...
you tried the manufacturers web site for the INF for that
particular model?(reaching but it would leave the card as the culprit)
lwr 32 to 16 just to see? although most video would be 32 I was wondering
Click to expand...
if you could achieve full screen with 16
 
go into safe mode and see if there are any other display adapters listed there
if there is delete the ones not related to the current hardware do the same for all headings just to clean it up if needed
 
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