Hangup/reboot when capturing with ATI MMC 8.2

[Logarth]

Hi Everyone. I am quite frustrated at this point and am hoping someone here can help me out.

I have an ATI TV Wonder Pro card in my XP machine. I can watch TV without any incident or problems, but when it comes to capturing any tv my world becomes a nightmare. Whenever I schedule a program (or series of programs) to record I'll come back later in the day and find my machine either completely hung up, with the monitor completely blank but hearing the TV playing in the background or I find the computer at the initial log in panel. Hung up or rebooted.. ;X

I have done everything conceivable from my end. From using the provided CD to downloading the latest and greatest drivers and MMC from ATI's site. Unfortunately I have audio issues with MMC 8.8 and am unable to use it. (I get 'dual' sound, like there are two sound inputs coming in.) MMC 8.2 off the CD seems to work, except for the capture aspect.

I've double checked my system for IRQ conflicts, which there aren't any. (I think the card uses IRQ 15 or 17)

At this point, I have wiped my drive and done a fresh XP install. Loaded mobo drivers, done the windows updates, DX 90b. I've installed the latest drivers for the card and then the DOA and MMC 8.2 from the cd. TV works, the player works, but still when I try to capture I normally get the reboot or hangup problem.

System specs
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XP pro
Athlon XP 2400+
Shuttle mobo (KT266)
256 MB
gforce fx5200 128 MB (1024x768 res @ 32 bit color)
ATI TV Wonder Pro
broadband internet

For what it matters, I am capturing to SVCD quality in plans to burn to CD to watch on a standalone DVD player.

Does anyone have any hints or tips to get this working? ATI's email support is basically useless and I've already spent $30 in ld calls to them without even once getting through to a person! They tell me to go look at their faq's which I've already done. Are there any settings I should be checking or tweaking? Need to see any additioanl info just ask.

Thanks for the help and peace out...

[Rawhead]

Wish I could help but I'll add to your problem as I had that problem too. I'm not sure how I fixed it but I uninsalled drivers, installed old ones, uninstalled MMC 8.8 and installed 8.5 the uninstalled 8.5 and reinstalled 8.8. HA!

Well at least then I got the scheduler to actually record something. However it doesn't save my settings. It will record at the correct time but I have it connected "composite" and as soon as the timer comes on, it switches off composite and over to s-Video or tuner and all I get is a file with audio only and static on the video (obviously since it changes connectors). I have it so it records fine when I just push the record button, but so far, the scheduler has been useless. Also, at least MMC 8.8 only saves my personal video recorder settings until I restart the computer. I'll have 2-3 user defined presets that I've tweaked thanks to Lord smurf and others, then a reboot and they are all gone except for the one's that come stock.

I've had the best luck when I uninstalled everything via the ATI uninstall all utility in the ATI Technologies folder rather than using the Windows uninstall program. It supposedly takes out everything including all drivers. I'm about to do it for the 6th time. JUST FOR FUN!! GRRRR

[Rawhead]

Oh also I'm using 8.5 as it's the last one that shows support for the AIW 7500 which I'm using. 8.6 thru 8.8 only list the 9700-9800 as support and a few times on install of those I've gotten "driver not supported" but restart and everything is ok. Except for the scheduler. I can still get very good captures from 8.8, just can't schedule them.