ATI-Rage Fury Pro - not able to capture to HDD.. any advice?

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I have something really strange going on with my setup.

Now I've configured my system over and over these past many years
with all sorts of capture hardware. I've even assembled multi-capture
card setups and with no problems, and can capture with any capture
device in my system at will.

The latest pheonomina that I'm having since this weekend, is that
I can not capture to my HDD when select my ATI Rage Fury capture
driver.

What I can capture with, is any other capture card I install. For
instance, right now, I have my ATI-TV Wonder VE card in my system, and
I can capture to my HDD with no problems. But, when I switch to my
Rage Fury Pro card, I can't. Please understand, I recently had this
same setup (ATI-TV Wonder VE and Rage Fury Pro) and I could capture
from either one to my HDD with no problems.

But, for some strange reason, this time around, I can't capture to
my HDD with I choose my Rage Fury Pro card.

I've uninstalled the card, drivers and software, and reinstalled it
all again, and still no capture to HDD. I've even removed my VE
card, and still, I can't capture to HDD.

The weird thing is, when I setup for capture w/ the Rage Fury Pro, it
looks and acts like it is going through the motions, capturing. But
the HDD lights are not on, and the actual captured AVI file is zero
bytes or non-existing. I dont get it. I can write to either of my
drives with no trouble. But yet, this is just so strange.

I'm stumpted.

So, does anybody have any ideas what went wrong in the setup this
time around ??

Current OS: Win98x

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UPDATE: subject matter solved

For those curious, below describes in detail, as best possible,
the trials I went through..

I resorted to re-installing win98x from scratch, and everything is
back to normal, ..maybe a little bit better in some areas.. for the
time being.. you know how it goes.

Theory of why I couldn't capture from ATI and Other WDM types ...

I think the problem occured when I started messing around with my
ESC K7S5A motherboard drivers and the HDD controllers and
Disk drives items under device manager.

When I had switched back to the ESC mobo (on account of my other mobo
board dying on me (another one bytes the dust) in my Disk drives
item, one drive (my d:\ drive) was displaying the actual BIOS HDD
serial drive name.. ie, WD_x_x_UDMA_5 for d:\ but my c:\ drive would
only display the usual GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47 name instead. But,
something I did notice with the odd name above, ..x_UDMA_5, this drive
would act much faster than the ..TYPE 47 drive (c:\ drive) and I
ended up researching through a lot of trial n error steps to achieve
it. In the end, I did achieve it, but at a cost. system-do-thing-mode
during capturing with WDM type capture devices.. ie, my Winfast and my
ATI Rage Fury Pro would not capture to any of my HDD's. I could only
capture to HDD when the capture card was a non-WDM (BTxx type) card.

Now that I have win98x re-installed fresh and clean, everything is back
to working order, and I can now take part in my every-day video endeavors.

Problem solved.

Case Closed!

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