Have I been a wolly? TV card in computer...

[chris watton]

ThePassenger said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hi!
Thanks very much for the detailed reply; muchos appreciatedos.

I disabled the onboard graphics card, yup. I will have a play and reply in much more detail hopefully tomorrow (out for the day now) but, once again, thanks for the detail - it looks like it's something to do with the drivers for the ATI card or even the card itself, then?! I used the drivers on the CD for the card but what I didn't say is that it did it before the TV card was installed on simple stuff like pausing an MPEG playing in Win Media Player so not just TV card specific.

Thanks again
Tony

I'm going to get ripped to shreads and I just know an entire collective of happy ATi users will appear but: ATi's drivers suck more than an Electrolux. Every BSOD and kernel panic I've had on a machine with an ATi card fitted.... can be traced back to the drivers being utterly wank.

When they work, they're nice, but twitchy buggers at the best of times. The fact it did it on video playback (which uses the same overlay/video ram dumping system) before the HVR appeared points me straight to ATi's drivers... and the tool shed... for a bloody great `ammer

I was browsing the net earlier and stumbled upon a story about the new ATI cards having to be recalled due to a bad BIOS flash during manufacture....

ETA: found the link;
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9490

Edited by chris watton on Saturday 18th August 14:59

[ThePassenger]

Final comment has a link to DigiTimes (for their paid subscribers only) about AMD saying a recall is unnecessary. Heh. Gut feeling, use that as an argument to RMA the card for an equivalent nVidia unit (if possible), scrape ATi drivers off system (using an arcane and ancient ritual) and watch all issues magically vanish.

[TonyHetherington]

Thanks people! Ok unfortunately I didn't get a chance to play with it yesterday however, especially as the issues are present during MPEG play back and mega simple stuff (before I even put the tv card in), it seems like it's the ATI card and it's drivers, huh? Well it only cost me £30 and although I'm not one for chucking away money, would you suggest I get a new card? If so, which one would you suggest?

Is that the best way forward?

I will watch a DVD now and then, will use it as a television now I have the HVR card, and do a lot of photoshop work (mainly why I bought the PC) with approx 30mb PSD files - and that's as major as my work ever gets, I don't do games.

Once again thanks for your help; really appreciate the time.

[TonyHetherington]

Innocent bump if I could trouble you guys for your advice pretty please thank you