ATI X600 audio

On 7 Oct 2005 19:22:24 -0700, ken.strauss.TakeThisOut@sympatico.ca wrote:

>I assembled a new system -- Asus A8N-SLI Premium, ATI X600, WinXP --
>and everything worked fine. I'm not sure what changed but now I can
>view the TV picture but get no sound. Yes, I've tried the mute button.
>Sound works with other apps. I feel really stupid. Help!


Is this a VIVO card and were you using an AIW card before, Ken? If
so, you need to input audio separately through the sound card, as well
as video through the videocard.

Patrick

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Removing and reinstalling all of the ATI software has restored sound.
Again, no hardware changes so it is a software setting. Now the only
problem is that the ATI software becomes "unresponsive" from time to
time; other applications continue to run without problems.
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ken.strauss RemoveThis @sympatico.ca wrote:
> Removing and reinstalling all of the ATI software has restored sound.
> Again, no hardware changes so it is a software setting. Now the only
> problem is that the ATI software becomes "unresponsive" from time to
> time; other applications continue to run without problems.

I'm having the same type of problem. A clean install of Windows XP,
installed Asus A8N-E chipset drivers and Realtek audio drivers, and
then ATI stuff. Started up TV, plays for 1 minute, and then freezes.

Before this, I had another clean install of XP. Sometimes it would
play for 10 minutes at a time, and one time it even recovered from a
freeze. I thought maybe it was because I had set all the settings to
high (my Athlon 64 dual-core should be able to handle it), but this
last time I just left everything at default. Now I've started checking
around on newsgroups, and it looks like lots of people are having
problems with the X600. I had kinda known that ATI's software was bad,
and had planned on using Windows Media Center Edition 2004 from a MSDN
disk, but then I found out that the drivers don't work with the card
unless you do some kind of hack/workaround. I put a half-hearted
effort into figuring that out, but only messed things up worse. That
is why I came to the fresh XP Professional (non-MCE).

Next step is to get SP2 and everything on, and then update Catalyst and
MMC from ATI website. I'm welcoming any advice.
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Mine is a virgin machine (nothing but Office 2003, Winzip, Nero and ATI
cr*p installed). It hasXPpro plus the latest DirectX, SP2 and
everything from the ATI website. It is a dual-core AMD 4400+ so system
speed should not be an issue. All system board timings are set to the
most conservative.

Please let us know if you have any success. Or make me an offer on an
almost new ATI X600!
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