[laos]

Hey everyone, i was wondering as i give this ONE last shot if anyone can help me on this seemingly now far away goal

The Specs

Windows XP home
1 GB of ram
Soundblaster Live! xi-fi card
Radeon 9800 PRO All-In-Wonder

All-In-Wonde cable, gives:

3 RCA Cables
S-Video

JVC TV with RCA input and Cable input, NO DVI/S-VIDEO INPUT

Ok,

right now i got my all-in-wonder and I am ABSOLUTELY STUMPED

I had plugged in, its a bit old, but was in another PC and pretty much held in condition, and i attached the cable to try to get it to connect. with windows XP, i try to turn it on, and i get no response from input

i tried manually turning on TV output, but no luck, catalyst software for it is installed

i'm pretty sure sound WILL work, with a 1/8 to RCA, only issue is a DVI/VGA to RCA. Which doesn't even exist for this kind of job.

is there any way i can truly get my all-in-wonder working?

-Laos

[jalind]

Do you know what motherboard you have?

Many newer MOBOs have a BIOS setting that allows disabling the PCI clock on unused PCI slots -- something like (or similar to) this BIOS setting on one of my machines:
"Disable unused PCI Clock"
with options for Enable or Disable.

The setting of this can get confusing. Enabling this option allows the machine to disable the PCI clock on unused PCI slots. Disabling this option keeps the PCI clock on all PCI slots, used or unused. Many older PCI cards cannot be detected by newer system PCI bus hardware (during BIOS Power-On-Self-Test; aka POST). Disabling this option means the PCI clock will be present on all PCI slots whether or not a card is detected during power-up.

Access your BIOS, look for this setting and see if changing it allows the machine to find the card during power-up (don't change anything else -- if in doubt, exit the BIOS setup without saving changes and start over). If that doesn't work, go into the BIOS again and change it back to its original setting.

To access a machine's BIOS settings there is usally a key that must be depressed while the machine is booting up. This varies from motherboard to motherboard. Often it's either the "DEL" key or one of the numbered function keys (e.g. F1, F2, etc.), and many MOBOs display which key it is during power-up, if only for a fraction of a second.

[Soundy]

Umm, not entirely sure I followed that...

Are you trying to simply output your computer desktop to your TV? Or are you trying to use the All-in-Wonder's tuner functions and output that display to the TV?

I have the same card, and it works fine, but it does require a little "massaging" to output properly to the TV.

A few things to keep in mind:

The AIW cards have two mini-DIN connectors, one for input and one for output. There should be three cables as well:
- one for input (red/white RCAs for audio, yellow for composite video, and S-video)
- one for composite/S-video and analog/digital audio output
- one component video (for HDTV) and analog/digital audio output

First, you have to make sure you're using the proper cable, and that you're plugging it into the proper port on the back of the card.

Second, you have to install the WDM drivers for the tuner/capture portion of the card to work. The base Catalyst drivers are display drivers only. Video output may also require the WDM drivers for proper operation, although I don't believe this is the case. If you're downloading the drivers from ATI's website, make sure you select the proper All-in-Wonder package; the WDM drivers should be included with the Catalyst installation.

Third, if the card doesn't detect a display present on startup, it won't enable the TV output: you need to make sure your TV is on before powering up the computer, or you need to use the "Force detection" option in the Catalyst Control Center to tell it that there's a TV attached.