Pentium 4 and ATI All In Wonder 128

[pootangpie]

I was reading on the ATI website that they do not recommend installing an AIW PCI card on a pentium 4 system. Why is that? I also want to know if I can have this card even though I have a Geforce 2 400 MX card installed. I wanted to used the card to capture camcorder video, edit it, and transfer it back out to vhs. Thanks.

My Specs:
2.0 ghz Pentium 4
Windows XP
128 RAMBUS
40 GB HD
Geforce 2 400MX

Pootangpie

[helper]

Hi,

The reason for the pci to be avoided is that certain chip sets for the pentium 4, causes intermitten crashes as well as other problems. I know this because i had a pci voodoo 3, and the computer was very flacky and crashed often, now with an ati all in wonder radeon agp, it is pretty stable and reliable. As for the dual video I have not tried it yet, so I can not comment on it.

Hope this helps....

Andrew

I was reading on the ATI website that they do not recommend installing an AIW PCI card on a pentium 4 system. Why is that? I also want to know if I can have this card even though I have a Geforce 2 400 MX card installed. I wanted to used the card to capture camcorder video, edit it, and transfer it back out to vhs. Thanks.

My Specs:
2.0 ghz Pentium 4
Windows XP
128 RAMBUS
40 GB HD
Geforce 2 400MX

Pootangpie

[WildStyle]

pootangpie,


My Radeon VIVO 64 Agp won't work with my P4/478. My experience is that ATI cards are a crap shoot as far as getting it to work.



WS

[sommersby]

WOW, and I thought the big advantage of an intel system was compatability, guess I was wrong, huh!

[sommersby]

Sorry, couldn't help myself, as for running dual video cards people do it all the time, give it a try, it may work great on your system, if it doesn't work, pull it out. ANY hardware addition to a pc based system is a crapshoot, that is it's biggest downfall. Weither it be an AMD or INTEL based system. And apple's biggest plus is compatability, but who can afford or wants the limitation of an apple. I mean, can you even try this on an apple?....

[Sulik]

I think this applies to some 850-based chipsets, where there is a compatibility problem between the 8500DV's firewire port and the onboard firwire controller. It can be solved by disabling either one of them.
I have no problems whatsoever on my P4 system (845 chipset), with either AIW Radeon or AIW 8500DV (I recently upgraded to the 8500DV)