All In Wonder Radeon users Help!

[gf]

Greetings All,

I am building a new PC "AMD XP" and was wondering what "problem free" motherboards are in use out there with an ATI all in wonder Radeon. Now I have a Abit KT7 with 1.2 Ghz Athlon and Soundblaster x-gamer card and I can't capture above 480*480 and have some clicking in my soundtrack. I tried re-installing windows, shutting down programs, checking IRQ's, no gain. So before I build my next PC, I thought I throw the question out there for other users to please give me feedback. Sorry no Intel processors.

Steve

[Savant]

Since you're not getting any responses from the AMD folks, I'll toss in my Intel info.

I'm running an Abit TH7-II (non-raid, but the raid version is cool too) My CPU is a 1.8G P4 that i have overclocked to 2GIG, although I'm only experimenting. Right now my FSB is only 111 and I have heard of people overclocking it up to 140+ with no problems. (Heard one person got 150, but started to hit problems so they dropped to 149 and have been running it good since then)

I have an ATI AIW Radeon (32 MEG Video memory for those unaware) and I can capture 720x480 in RAW AVI (using Huffyuv CODEC) and if I drop more than 9 frames in 25 minutes of video it's rare. (9 dropped frames out of 45,000 frames isn't bad) My hard drives are dual 60 GIG Western Digital Caviars (7200RPM)

The video I capture is 100% problem free, and since I can capture in AVI it allows me to use higher quality settings when I compress to MPEG.

Have you tried a new soundcard? Alternately you might try getting a jumper cable and connecting from the ATI card to the SB card internally, that can sometimes solve sound prolems.

Also, you should try the sound card in another slot. With PCI IRQ sharing, it can make a difference. I never place any important cards in slot 1 or 5, but it depends on the mobo. Check the small print for the mobo documentationand you'll often see that there are piles of things sharing the PCI slot with the device.

Regards,

Savant

[gf]

Hi Savant
Thanks for the reply, Yea I tried internal cables, external cables. Maybe your right about the soundcard. I have a realmagic dvr card and it has audio record problems also @ 44.1 or 48 kHz with anything below 384 kB/s. The reason I put down no Intel is because I want to build another AMD system and didn't want the Intel/AMD war of words. I'll try the realmagic dvr in another computer this week. About your 720*480 capture, can you do it in MPEG 1 or 2 format?

Steve

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Any takers for HELP!

[Tbear]

I don't have a raedon, I have a aiw rage 128 pro 32Mb. My mother board is abit kr7a-133 raid. with AMD XP +2000. with SB Audigy card and have no problems with capture. use vdub w/ Huffy I can capture at 720 x 576
But do most of my capture at 640 x 480.

[vb_gsk]

You system is pretty good. As far as the audio clicking, this is directly related to your sound card's drivers, or the sound card it's self. I recomend you to update your audio drivers, install latest VIA, ACPI, and Bios updates, as well as getting the latest drivers from ATI>

I had a sound blaster pci 512, and it enduced clicks and pops into my audio stream. After replacing it, to a simple ISA SB16, the problem disapered.

Also, another tip is if your sound card has lagacy support for DOS, and you don't use sound in DOS, disable it in the system properties.

on my system I can capture 720x480x30fps with divx 4.12 at 6000kbps

[vb_gsk]

Just another quick tip----

NEVER put yur sound card next to your VIdeo card, this apllys to PCI & AGP

Good luck!

[gf]

I tried new VIA drivers, but not any Creative drivers, I has SB16 disabled, I left an open slot between every board. If I use the SB xgamer as an audio capture only device it records fine, I guess the real test is when it's hooked up with the video card. I also have a Realmagic dvr card and it also has audio problems, not clicking, but a high freq pitch problem. I guess I'll try it in my other computer soon.

Thanks Steve

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Any more takers? :P

[Nelson37]

Couple things to try - Place card in different slot, NOT the first or last slot.
Make sure contacts are clean, eraser works well for this but remove ALL rubber debris before re-inserting. Remove ALL other cards but sound and video. Make sure you're using Line-in, not microphone. Turn off 20DB boost in control panel. Also, try lowering line-in volume to lowest setting and turning up volume from input device. You can also try running sound directly to card input and not through ATI connector.
Latest drivers for all devices essential, remove and re-install. Lastly, try a different sound card.

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Anybody else

[Sulik]

Intel here (MSI 845 Ultra), so not of much help you're you're looking at a AMD MB.