I purchased an ATI TV Wonder Pro capture card and installed it on my 900MHz machine with little success. Because of other problems getting a DVD burner to burn reliably, I bought a new 2.8GHz Compaq with an Intel 82845 onboard graphics controller running XP home.( MY DVD problem vanished but...). After numerous attempts installing and uninstalling the software and hardware, I always get the message "The Ati Multimedia Center does not appear to be installed. You may have to re-install....."
I spent an hour on the phone with ATI support un-installing and re-installing with exactly the same results. Her conclusion was that the Intel graphics controller had multi- layering issues and would not allow the ATI card to work. This is a new machine with a new card!!!! Her solution was to uninstall the graphics controller, install another graphics card (I have a Rage 3D Pro on hand) and re-install the TV Wonder Pro. The new driver for the Rage Pro will not let the Video drivers for the Wonder Pro load so that was a useless venture!!! I'm now worse off because Control panel tells me it cannot un-install the Rage Pro Drivers because it is "older" even though I have removed the card and disabled the driver. I have edited the register to remove all ATI reference but it's still there in my "Installed Programs" like a curse.
Another solution suggested was to buy a new ATI All-in-Wonder card which "could" solve my problem. In the meantime this new ATI TV Wonder Pro is useless and cannot be returned since I have been struggeling with this for over a month.
Has anyone been successful installing this card on a similar machine and if so please let me know what magic was employed to get it going.
Thanks
I spent an hour on the phone with ATI support un-installing and re-installing with exactly the same results. Her conclusion was that the Intel graphics controller had multi- layering issues and would not allow the ATI card to work. This is a new machine with a new card!!!! Her solution was to uninstall the graphics controller, install another graphics card (I have a Rage 3D Pro on hand) and re-install the TV Wonder Pro. The new driver for the Rage Pro will not let the Video drivers for the Wonder Pro load so that was a useless venture!!! I'm now worse off because Control panel tells me it cannot un-install the Rage Pro Drivers because it is "older" even though I have removed the card and disabled the driver. I have edited the register to remove all ATI reference but it's still there in my "Installed Programs" like a curse.
Another solution suggested was to buy a new ATI All-in-Wonder card which "could" solve my problem. In the meantime this new ATI TV Wonder Pro is useless and cannot be returned since I have been struggeling with this for over a month.
Has anyone been successful installing this card on a similar machine and if so please let me know what magic was employed to get it going.
Thanks
