TV Wonder

[Walt Shank]

I have a system I am working on with a TV Wonder. After a few minutes of
watching TV the system will lockup. The motherboard is an Intel with
SoundMax Digital Audio. The lockups are completely arbitrary. It will
sometimes play for 30 minutes before locking up or it will not lockup until
the TV channels are changed. The system also locks up with no cable TV
connected to the card and watching fuzz. I am thinking this is a software
problem but am open for suggestions. We have removed and updated drivers.

 

[Bax]

If you have a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, and are running Windows XP,
this is a known problem. Apparently you need a new stream.sys file from
Microsoft.
See Microsoft Knowledge Base article 817589:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817589
(btw - the article refers to the TV tuner feature of your "sound card", but
it obviously meant "video card".)

 

[THNK]

What version of stream.sys fixes this problem? I have loaded DirectX 9.0b
and service pack 1 on my XP machine and still have this problem. My version
of stream.sys is 5.3.0.900.

 

[Bax]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817589

 

[nobody]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:59:52 -0400, "Walt Shank" <[email protected]>
wrote:

What board and what OS. I have a similar problem with a Intel D865PERL
running a P4 3Ghz 800Mhz . This has on board Soundmax. I am using a
new TV Wonder Pro.

In 2K SP4 it works ok, but I have locks in XP SP1. I don't think it
is the Soundmax. In my case I think it is the Hyperthreading ... and
the ATI drivers. MS is supposedly working on a patch for the
Hyperthreading problem that will be in SP2. Or you can contact them
for the beta.

I think this is one of these problems without a fix until ATI comes
out with decent drivers and MS comes out with patches that actually do
some good.