Weird Interference ATI AIW Pro

[Tom Saurus]

On my older computer which I don't use much anymore I have this weird interference happening and thus until I find a remedy I won't do any more video capturing with it. I have a suspision this might be connected to the USB. I have one USB slot that has failed on the front and before it went dead when I would plug anything into that slot I would get artifacts like this on my desktop. Actually this interference pattern is bleading through on my desktop as well at the moment and nothing is plugged into the USB. The capture card for this computer is an ATI All In Wonder Pro. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me on this issue. Have a nice day!

[Tom Saurus]

I have hooked the computer to another monitor. It must be a problem with the ATI Card. My best bet is to get stuff off of this computer and abandon it. I tried to hook the monitor up to the computer's own video card monitor output and it said "no signal". The pattern is bleading into the desktop and any video I watch is distorted with the pattern.

[redwudz]

When you hooked the monitor to the on-board video, did you go into BIOS and change the display over to that video chipset? Otherwise you would get 'no signal'. From the screen shot, there is a serious problem. Might be the video card or a failing power supply or a dying MB. Lots of possibilities.

[Tom Saurus]

redwudz: Thank you for replying to this thread. I didn't go into the BIOS, I just had the thought that if I moved the monitor cable over to the motherboard video card that maybe the interference would go away and I could deduce it was the ATI AIW 9800 Pro video card failing. Due to the age of this computer, and probably the scarcity of parts I think my best bet would be to back everything vital to a usb portable hard drive that is formated in to NTSF, so I can get the larger than 4gb files off too. Maybe there will be a way to save the hard drives and perhaps put them in enclosures and they can become usb hard drives.

Unfortunatley there are no local guys who can build a custom made computer for me, so I will have to go with an already built computer. This was a pretty good system in its day, as it was a Pentium 4. It has a barely used Pioneer DVD burner in it as well. Maybe I can get a cheap quad core computer somewhere. I know there are i3, i5 and i7 computers out now, and maybe a i5 would be alot more powerful than a P4. I bought a Windows XP Pro disc, but I don't know what use that will be to me. I will have to look around the Future Shop Canada website and see what is available. I did notice they had a 16 core AMD computer, I would imagine that is one powerful machine.

I think what I will do when it comes to video capture is eventually get a Hauppauge USB capture device. I know they have one that take componet input, unfortunatly it only records in h.264 and that would no doubt be hard to edit. The drawback to a typical computer is that they only have one hard drive and it sure nice to have more than one.

[lordsmurf]

I'm not convinced the card is the problem. That's more likely driver issues (corruption of files on hard drive, meaning a hard drive error), motherboard failure, VGA cable failure, or power supply issues (not enough power). I've seen this exact error, and it was almost never the card itself.

Don't trash the ATI AIW card. Consider giving it away to somebody that is looking for one.

The current Hauppauge USB cards are true pieces of crap. I would avoid those. Instead, look to older ATI 600 or 650 cards, using ATI CMC (not MMC, but CMC).

[Tom Saurus]

I took the computer up town today. The technician tested the ATI Card and that is where the artifacts were coming from. He hooked up the monitor to the video card built into the motherboard and the artifacts went away.

But me being the stupid idiot that I am started unistalling the ATI software that was on my computer and now I can't play any video with VLC Player. I was able to access some mpg2 files via Womble, but they playback is jerky. I was thinking of using this computer as an editing/media computer.

The monitor slot had a couple of bolts sticking out and the monitor cable had some bolts as well and as you would thread the screw into this the bolts would touch and the monitor would not actually be hooked up. One bolt unthreaded out of the back of the computer where the monitor hooks up, so I removed that and then the monitor finally got hooked up. But when I would play video it would be jerky and I thought this had something to do with the ATI Drivers. I am hoping to get this figured out, or back to the shop it goes. I left the ATI Card with the technician to dispose of.

[Tom Saurus]

I unistalled VLC Media Player and then re-installed it and now I can play videos again. I am using a KLM switch to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse between two computers. I had to put an adaptor to convert the USB mouse to a regular mouse and it is tight fit next to the monitor cable. The video is playing quite abit more smoothly, yet it still not as smooth as it should be, and now all the video has a blue tint to it. Maybe I should move this topic to the "Computer Forum" now that I can't capture with this computer anymore.

[redwudz]

Maybe I should move this topic to the "Computer Forum" now that I can't capture with this computer anymore.

I'll do that.

[Tom Saurus]

redwudz: Thank you for moving this topic to the Computer Forum.


The blue tinge only happens when I play videos in the VLC Player. The desktop doesn't have the blue tinge, everything looks fine. I also have Virtual Dub Mod installed on that computer. I dropped an flv file in that and no blue tinge to the video, normal colours are displayed. The video plays alot better now. I am used to playing the video on a CRT screen and this screen is a flat screen monitor.

I am hoping that whatever the problem is, that it can be fixed as I would like to get as much use out of this computer as possible in its waning days.

But in the meantime, I can burn DVDs, try to get caught up on printing on the covers of some discs I have already made, play solitaire, ect. I won't encode video with this computer, as that heats up the computer too much for my liking. Thanks in advance for any advice concerning this matter.