Capture Card problems, advice needed.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:04 pm

my ati tv wonder pro works perfect, but if u dicided not to get it then w/e. um try a asus card or nvidia if nvidia makes capture cards. just dont get pc chips becouse they are terible

NEØ · Post by **NEØ** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:12 am

madmag9999 wrote:my ati tv wonder pro works perfect

Have you tried hooking up consoles to it, if so what's the quality like?

Oh and is it PCI?

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:45 pm

yes it is pci. and yes i have hooked up consels to it. i only have dream cast (im not a big gamer) but the quality seemed just like it dose on tv.

NEØ · Post by **NEØ** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:05 pm

madmag9999 wrote:yes it is pci. and yes i have hooked up consels to it. i only have dream cast (im not a big gamer) but the quality seemed just like it dose on tv.

It’s a Dreamcast and an XBOX that I plan to hook it up to, if the quality is good enough, this card sounds like exactly what I need!

ongakuka · Post by **ongakuka** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:46 pm

Topic is a few days old, but figure'd I'd throw this suggestion out there...

Were all of your restarts just straight cycles? Or did you ever shut off the system for X amount of time and then repower? Sometimes when something fritzes out a standard reboot isn't enough. Breaking the power and letting the charge dissipate out of onboard capacitors (as there will be a number of them esp. on an analog capture card) may fix things. You wouldn't get that with a power cycle/control-alt-del.

It also could just be that the mobo's PNP IRQ/DMA bios settings got corrupt somehow (or Win98 registry w/ driver settings). A reset of the bios (jumpers, unplug battery, etc) may do the trick as well.

Have you tried the card since all of this?

NEØ · Post by **NEØ** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:42 pm

ongakuka wrote:Topic is a few days old, but figure'd I'd throw this suggestion out there...

Were all of your restarts just straight cycles? Or did you ever shut off the system for X amount of time and then repower? Sometimes when something fritzes out a standard reboot isn't enough. Breaking the power and letting the charge dissipate out of onboard capacitors (as there will be a number of them esp. on an analog capture card) may fix things. You wouldn't get that with a power cycle/control-alt-del.

It also could just be that the mobo's PNP IRQ/DMA bios settings got corrupt somehow (or Win98 registry w/ driver settings). A reset of the bios (jumpers, unplug battery, etc) may do the trick as well.

Have you tried the card since all of this?

Thanks for the suggestions.

I shut down the computer for a whole night at one point and restarted only to find the same problems.

I have tried the card since then and XP detects new hardware but won't accept the drivers for some reason, and to have the card in without the drivers makes the computer crash.

Any other ideas?