ATi HDTV Wonder Freezing/Low Performance

[Necro]

Problem: ATi HDTV Wonder is playing, but after a few minutes it freezes up. I can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL a few times and ALT-F4 and eventually Sage will come back up but the system gets very unstable.

Specs:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-K8VM800M Socket 754 VIA K8M800
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 754 Processor Model
Memory: 1gb
HDD: All are IDE (3 of them)
Video: GeForce 6200 (PCI)

WinXP, and newest drivers for the HDTV wonder off ATI/AMDs website. I think those are the important specs.

I've tested the default decoder, the ATi decoder, and the Nvidia decoder. It seems to occur with ALL of them.

Any suggestions, ideas, etc. would be great. I'm fairly certain the card is on it's own IRQ since the board only has 3 PCI slots and only two are filled (graphics card and this card) currently.

Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.

[rfutscher]

I had problems with the latest HD Wonder drivers and had to install an older version.

Originally Posted by Necro

Problem: ATi HDTV Wonder is playing, but after a few minutes it freezes up. I can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL a few times and ALT-F4 and eventually Sage will come back up but the system gets very unstable.

Specs:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-K8VM800M Socket 754 VIA K8M800
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 754 Processor Model
Memory: 1gb
HDD: All are IDE (3 of them)
Video: GeForce 6200 (PCI)

WinXP, and newest drivers for the HDTV wonder off ATI/AMDs website. I think those are the important specs.

I've tested the default decoder, the ATi decoder, and the Nvidia decoder. It seems to occur with ALL of them.

Any suggestions, ideas, etc. would be great. I'm fairly certain the card is on it's own IRQ since the board only has 3 PCI slots and only two are filled (graphics card and this card) currently.

Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.

[Necro]

Which older versions resolved your issues?

[Worf]

I too am having issues with the HD Wonder. It seems to use fairly high resources when recording (sometimes the System process runs at 50%.) When I got to view the recordings, they have a lot of pixilization and audio corruption. I have played the files back in VLC and see corruption as well, so it is not just a Sage playback issue. Does anyone know where to find older drivers for this card? ATI only has the most recent posted.

[rfutscher]

I have drivers 3.0.83.2030 loaded. I think that they came with version 5.04 software.

I noticed that 9.13 and 9.14 have the same 6.14.10.2022 drivers.

The major problem that I have with the HDWonder is that it can't handle multipath. If the antenna isn't pointing directly at the transmit tower and there are no reflections I get dropouts. Freezing / blocking video and stuttering audio. Sometimes when Sage does a channel scan the drivers will crash when it tunes to a weak signal. Of course when using the card you would never tune to those stations, so the crash doesn't happen during use.

Originally Posted by Necro

Which older versions resolved your issues?

[Necro]

I'll try that version out and see, but I think I isolated my problem to something to do with my video card...which I'm not surprised of...PCI 6200 from BFG/3d Fuzion. Maybe I can get a new card ... :/