ATI Radeon with VIA Apollo Pro 266 MB..need help

[mickflux]

I have the ATI 32 mb Radeon AIW and a DFI CD70-SC Mother Board that uses the VIA Apollo Pro 266 VT8633/VT8233 AGP chip set.

The TV windows freezes and locks my computer after a few seconds of viewing live TV. Has anyone else had this problem and know of the fix?

Thanks for any tips.

[akbar56]

Little more info please.
What OS?
Proccessor?
RAM?

[mickflux]

I have a P3 1GHz with 512 MB RAM and Win 98 SE. I was told to use the newest driver for my mainbaord and the ATI card which I haven't tried as of yet.

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced lock-up's with this video card and the newer motherboards such as the DFI or ASUS CUV 266 board which is idential to mine. Tech support for ATI told me to grab the new drivers but if someone has had this same experience I would like some pointers just in case the new drivers don't fix the lock-up problem.

[mickflux]

I did install MMC 7.1 and DirectX 8 drivers and still get frozen after watching TV for a few seconds.

[akbar56]

Defintly go for drivers first. If that doesnt do it do this, install Web TV for windows. I know it sounds weird and I cant explain it.. but after doing that all my TV problems disapeared.

[patrickm]

turn off ALL power management (disks, screen savers, everything)
install the directx 8 DV/Vid capture update (in addition to DX8 )
give the card its own IRQ

also when you install the AGP drivers in the VIA 4-in-1, use "normal mode" not "turbo mode". if possible, uninstall the viagart.vxd driver altogether. (try running msconfig.exe, preferably the one from WinME that lists "static VXDs" as a category)

there may be something funny going on in the BIOS otherwise. you could try turning off PCI/AGP high-performance options like 'delayed transaction', 'AGP master 0 WS write' etc.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: patrickm on 2001-08-02 19:15:39 ]</font>

[mickflux]

I installed the Direct X 8 A/V driver, the Via 4 in 1 driver (v 4.31) and the newest version of the ATI driver as you suggested and so far it's working well. The card's IRQ was 11, viagart was never installed for some reason, and I did use normal mode for the Via 4-in-1 driver.

I was able to capture video and nothing froze but I didn't use the card all that much yet. I am hoping the damn thing doesn't freeze again because I am really tired of troubleshooting. If I have to do anymore tweeking to my system I will post a message about it. Otherwise, it's onto making SVCD's.

Mick

[patrickm]

by the way, for the VIA KT133A chipset (not KT133) i'd recommend the v4.27 4-in-1 package, not the newer ones. i had some issues with 28 or 29 (don't remember), and 27 is working just fine.