WinXP and ATI AIW-128 crashes/video driver

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Paul Goodman

I'm running WinXP SP1 with an AIW-128 video board. Using the video drivers
from ATI's site Recommended Driver - 6.13.3279 (dated October 22, 2001)
and running ATI Multimedia 7.1. I'm crashing a lot, and my gut feeling is
it's the video driver. It was just installed on a new 80 gig IDE drive, and
there wasn't a lot of software on the drive before the crashes began. Can't
tell if running the TV from Multimedia contributes to the crashes or not.


Any suggestions?

Thanks

Paul Goodman
 
Paul Goodman said:
I'm running WinXP SP1 with an AIW-128 video board. Using the video drivers
from ATI's site Recommended Driver - 6.13.3279 (dated October 22, 2001)
and running ATI Multimedia 7.1. I'm crashing a lot, and my gut feeling is
it's the video driver. It was just installed on a new 80 gig IDE drive, and
there wasn't a lot of software on the drive before the crashes began. Can't
tell if running the TV from Multimedia contributes to the crashes or not.


Any suggestions?

Thanks

Paul Goodman
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Any reason why you're using such an old driver, Paul?

patrickp
 
Any reason why you're using such an old driver, Paul?


That is the "newest" driver that ATI makes for the All-In-Wonder 128 AGP
board.
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/rage128/winxp/rage128winxpdrivers.htm
l?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=5&submit.y=6

The video board is 4 or 5 years old and they don't "support" it anymore :-)
I just wonder if I'm the only one having trouble running that driver with
WinXP and an ATI AIW 128 board. Somehow I doubt it!

Thanks
Paul
 
Paul Goodman said:
That is the "newest" driver that ATI makes for the All-In-Wonder 128 AGP
board.
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/rage128/winxp/rage128winxpdrivers.htm
l?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=5&submit.y=6

The video board is 4 or 5 years old and they don't "support" it anymore :-)
I just wonder if I'm the only one having trouble running that driver with
WinXP and an ATI AIW 128 board. Somehow I doubt it!

Thanks
Paul
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Paul I have the AIW 128 video card. I'm running WinXP Pro and have the same
drivers from ATI's website. Everything is running fine. I have used this
video card in 3 different motherboards with the same drivers and it always
worked with no problems. It sound like you may be having either a software
or hardware conflict. Which version of Multmedia Center are you using?

Eddie
 
Paul I have the AIW 128 video card. I'm running WinXP Pro and have the same
drivers from ATI's website. Everything is running fine. I have used this
video card in 3 different motherboards with the same drivers and it always
worked with no problems. It sound like you may be having either a software
or hardware conflict. Which version of Multmedia Center are you using?

Eddie
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I run Windows XP with this card and it causes many crashes. I gave up
trying to make the MMC work correctly. I use Win DVD Recorder. But
don't try to run anything else, or it will freeze. XP blames the
ATI driver when the "error" is reported..
 
Hey Paul,

Its a long time since you posted, but I only just read it. Here goes
just in case you're still reading the group! I was just going to post
a question about new AIW's as I have an old aiw 128 pro 32meg card
myself which I had major hassles with (hence asking about new
ones..once bitten and all that). I'm using it now in a new pc under
win2k, its giving me stable video but no capture. anyway, down to your
problem... Does you motherboard have a via KT133 chipset in it? I only
ask cos I used to have the card in an abit kt7 raid motherboard and it
crashed like nobodies business. The only way I ever got any stability
was by doing the following:

Running Windows 98 SE with fairly old driver release levels
(wmew98r1284126292.exe)
MMC 7.1
And believe it or not... turning hardware acceleration off!!

This was a process of trial and error and a little bit of help and
advice from the kt7 faq page, which is archived here:
http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=2&fcid=8

cheers
 
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