ATI Radeon 9600 All-In-Wonder - TV initializing problem.

[GeForceX]

System:
Asrock K7S41GX
Athlon XP 2400+ O/C'ed to 2.1 GHz (2600+)
Kingston 512 MB PC-3200 (256 x 2) Value RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 All-In-Wonder
Windows XP Professional SP2

Drivers:
ATI Catalyst 5.2
All Software Updated Through ATI's Website
All Drivers Updated Through ATI's Website

Issue:
Cannot start ATI's Multimedia Center's TV

Notice:
This is a day old freshly formatted computer with every necessary programs installed and all of them are updated. However Windows XP Professional is left unactivated because I am not done with the entire tweaking of the computer and when I am ready to activate, I will do so. I made a big mistake before of activating a copy and shortly, the Windows XP installation got corrupted which required a re-install and it prevented me from activating it again.

Procedures:
I clicked on my dock where it has icons including DVD, TV, Player, VCD, CD and Library. I click on TV. An error message comes up and it states:

The TV player failed to initialize the video.

Check the Windows Device Manager to ensure the correct video driver has been installed and is working properly before attempting to restart TV.

PC Check may help diagnose this problem.

[ * ] Start PC Check utility after pressing OK

[ OK ]

I ran the test. I passed the following:

Processor speed is 500 MHz or better
RAM is at least 128 MBytes
Has sound card
Sound card with Clock Stability better than +/- 0.2%
Windows XP
DirectX 9
DVD: IDE DVD ROM 16X
DMA for DVD operation is enabled
DVD : LITE-ON DVD+RW LDW-401S
DMA for DVD operation is enabled
Hard Drive : Maxtor 6Y060L0
DMA for Hard Drive operation is enabled

However, here's what I failed:

DirectX components are not installed properly
Graphics Chip: Not ATI RADEON or more recent
Primary : ATI ATI RADEON 9600 Series (0x0000000f)...
Primary : Graphics board memory is 128 MBytes
Primary : 8.10-060119a-020581C-ATI (0x00000000)
Secondary : ATI ATI RADEON 9600 Series Secondary...
Secondary : Graphics board memory is 0 MBytes
Secondary : 8.10.-050119a-020581C-ATI (0x00000000)
Capture driver is not listed in registry

So, it refuses to work. I'm not sure what is going on. I already have DirectX 9C and it should work. I have the latest drivers, then I think I might've gotten the wrong drivers. I'm going to get the WDM driver from ATI soon. Any help is appreciated.


If you're wondering why I made this fancy-- it's because I'm bored.


-J.

 

[losttime]

I ran into a problem with my AIW 9600, not exactly like yours, but the solution might help. I could open up the TV fine, but it wouldn't play anything. I couldn't capture video or do any TV out.

What it came down to was that I had to reinstall the WMD(?) drivers. I had it installed fine, but when I updated the display drivers, they somehow got disabled or corrupted or something, so now, everytime I update the display drivers I also need to reinstall the WMD(?) drivers afterward and it works fine.

Hope that helps.

 

[GeForceX]

Yeah, re-installing the WDM files did the trick. Thanks.

-J.