Help with ATI's MMC

[peterc]

Thanks in advance for your help.

I am new to all this stuff but I recently purchased an ATI AIW Radeon 7500. It is installed in a Dell 1ghz-256mb-7200rpm60gb machine running Windows 2K Pro.

I am using this setup to capture mainly VHS. I have two main problems.

1. In the event viewer, I am getting an error stating something to the effect that my hard drive is strugglin and about to die. This started after the reload to 2000 and enabling DMA on the IDE Controller. Is this normal?

2. Why is it that everytime I go into the TV portion of MMC my computer reboots? I have found a way around it but I am curious as to if anyone else has seen this. It mainly happens if I try to open it soon after bootup. If I work around for a few minutes or open it in Internet Explorer, you know, over to the sidebar, it does fine.

3. The same thing happens sometimes when trying to capture from ULeads software, "Video Studio" or something like that.

I used to see this a lot in slow computers when using cpu intense programs like several from Adobe. But I would think that 1ghz should be plenty to use these simple programs. When launching the above mentioned programs, the cpu doesn't even strain. It strains harder to open Internet Explorer or anything else.

I have begun to use VDub for all of my capture and it works great but occasionally I want to use the MMC TV thingie to watch TV so I can use the nifty remote that came with it.

Thanks

[peterc]

Evedently this is worse than I thought due to the responses that I have received.

Oh well, I guess I will poke around until I get lucky

Thanks anyway.

[CubDukat]

Your problem definitely isn't normal.

Have you tried the latest drivers for the AIW 7500 and the latest version of MMC?

I don't own an AIW card (yet), but I have heard that one of the biggest problems is that installation order is everything. I think there's a tutorial on this site dedicated to that issue.

[Thorn]

If your HD is about to die, that probably wouldn't have anything to do with ATI and you'd want to investigate what's wrong.

No idea about MMC, I almost never used it when I had an ATI.

[Nelson37]

1. This is definitely not normal, although posting the exact text of the error msg would be helpful. You probably need some win200 drivers or a BIOS update from Dell. SOLVE THIS PROBLEM FIRST! It may well be the cause of your other errors.

ATI software installation is a royal PITA. One thing that helps is to remove all drivers, install as generic VGA, reboot, rerun software install. Rage3D.com has some very complete instructions which usually will solve it. Their software is VERY picky about installing over other versions of itself.

[Strahlen]

Soz for this pat reply, but the best way to install ATI drivers and expect even a glimpse of stability is on a fresh install of your O/S..

I myself have just recently regained some basic MMC features with the Catalyst 3.0 release, in particular the Jan 10 release, WinXP with SP1 just acted up so much.. before SP1 I could capture, teletext, file player, after.. zilch, until now.. thankfully..

As stated above, install order is crucial, even for stuff like the control panel..

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