Vista Tutorial - Vista Build 5600 - ATI All-in-Wonder X800-XL AGP - TV Tuner device Not recognized

This ATI All-in-Wonder card doesn't work. Vista recognizes the basic card
and installs the X800XT driver but ATI 's Vista beta ( Catalyst 9.13, I
think?) doesn't recognize the onboard TV tuner.

This ATI card is lited as having sufficient capabilities for Vista. The card
has 256 MB DDR3 and provides a fast rating in the Vista performance listing.

Anybody testing Vista 5600 32 bit with any ATI All-In-Wonder?

The Vista Media Center doesn't find the TV tuner either.
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Configuration of this test machine is:

ASROCK i465 Motherboard Bios 1.2
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz , Socket 478 800 FSB Prescott
2x1GB ddr400 PNY
IDE Drive
ATI All - in -Wonder X800XL with 256 MB ( AGP ) 128 MB for TV and 128 MB for
primary monitor

> Anybody testing Vista 5600 32 bit with any ATI All-In-Wonder?
>
> The Vista Media Center doesn't find the TV tuner either.

It never will unless Microsoft changes its mind. MS has made Media Center
require a hardware MPEG encoder which the AIW series doesn't have.
The only hope is for ATI to write a version of their Multimedia Center
that runs under Vista.

Tom Lake

i'm having same prob with ati vista beta drivers. ati driver won't recognize
the X1300 mobility radeon on my brand new dell laptop E1505. I think there is
a major problem with the ATI drivers. Wish i could be of more help beyond
that.

"d. smith" wrote:

> This ATI All-in-Wonder card doesn't work. Vista recognizes the basic card
> and installs the X800XT driver but ATI 's Vista beta ( Catalyst 9.13, I
> think?) doesn't recognize the onboard TV tuner.
>
> This ATI card is lited as having sufficient capabilities for Vista. The card
> has 256 MB DDR3 and provides a fast rating in the Vista performance listing.
>
> Anybody testing Vista 5600 32 bit with any ATI All-In-Wonder?
>
> The Vista Media Center doesn't find the TV tuner either.
> ______
> Configuration of this test machine is:
>
> ASROCK i465 Motherboard Bios 1.2
> Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz , Socket 478 800 FSB Prescott
> 2x1GB ddr400 PNY
> IDE Drive
> ATI All - in -Wonder X800XL with 256 MB ( AGP ) 128 MB for TV and 128 MB for
> primary monitor
>
>
>

I have a similar problem with ATI All IN Wonder 2006 AGP Edition. Works fine
with Windows XP. I have had 4 builds on the same computer clean install,
beta 2, Pre RC1, RC1 Build 5600 and currently RC 1 build 5728. Windows Vista
doesn't even know the tv tuner is there. Nothing shows up in device manager.
Tried to manually install and Vista sees nothing. I have a feeling the ball
is in ATI's corner not Microsoft.

"d. smith" wrote:

> This ATI All-in-Wonder card doesn't work. Vista recognizes the basic card
> and installs the X800XT driver but ATI 's Vista beta ( Catalyst 9.13, I
> think?) doesn't recognize the onboard TV tuner.
>
> This ATI card is lited as having sufficient capabilities for Vista. The card
> has 256 MB DDR3 and provides a fast rating in the Vista performance listing.
>
> Anybody testing Vista 5600 32 bit with any ATI All-In-Wonder?
>
> The Vista Media Center doesn't find the TV tuner either.
> ______
> Configuration of this test machine is:
>
> ASROCK i465 Motherboard Bios 1.2
> Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz , Socket 478 800 FSB Prescott
> 2x1GB ddr400 PNY
> IDE Drive
> ATI All - in -Wonder X800XL with 256 MB ( AGP ) 128 MB for TV and 128 MB for
> primary monitor
>
>
>

"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
news:OPiL0GN4GHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Anybody testing Vista 5600 32 bit with any ATI All-In-Wonder?
>>
>> The Vista Media Center doesn't find the TV tuner either.
>
> It never will unless Microsoft changes its mind. MS has made Media Center
> require a hardware MPEG encoder which the AIW series doesn't have.
> The only hope is for ATI to write a version of their Multimedia Center
> that runs under Vista.
>
> Tom Lake
>

Why are they requiring a hardware MPEG encoder?

> Why are they requiring a hardware MPEG encoder?

You'd have to ask them but I suspect it's because Vista takes up
so much of a processor's time that they don't want things to get
bogged down with TV as well.

Tom Lake