Avalance

After I installed WinXP SP1 my Avermedia TV-Phone98-card has started bahaving strangely. (Earlier I had WinXP Pro original, and then it worked just fine.) When watching TV with a program that uses the WDM-drivers, the card seems to loose the frequenzy-lock every 5 minutes or so. The pictures just shows static, and the sound dissappears. Switching back and forth to anohter channel corrects the problem, but since this happends every five minutes it's not an acceptable solution... When watching TV with a program that uses the VFW-interface (Video for Windows), it works a little better. Now only the sound will disappear every 5 minutes, but I'm still able to watch television. This problem however isn't corrected by switching channels, to get the sound back I have to restart the program. Has anyone else experienced this...? Could it be that the card itself is broken..? It is pretty old... Or is it just some incompadability with the drivers and WinXP SP1..?

I've tried it... Same problem as with the software that comes with the card... (Image disappears after a few minutes, then just static until you change channel...) Thanks for the effort though

When I installed SP1 I did it by using a WinXP version with integrated SP1, so I actually reinstalled WinXP as well... And I've tried a few different drivers (including some general open source Bx---- drivers) with the same result. Next step is reinstalling WinXP without SP1, but that's the last resort...

I had this problem right before my harddrive crashed... You might want to think about making a backup of your important data

Well, as I said I've already have SP1, and that didn't do any good (had the same problem without it)... And the problem isn't that I get 60Hz in games, it's that I get 75Hz EVERYWHERE! In all resolutions below 1600x1200, I get maximum 75Hz no matter how I configure the refresh rate in display properties. In 1600x1200 it works fine for some reason, if I set it at 85 Hz (which is what my monitor supports) I actually get 85Hz. As I said, the only working solution I've found so far is Powerstrip, but that's shareware and it should be some other way to work this out...

I've got exactly the same problem!! Geforce 4 4400, driver version 41.09, Windows XP SP1. In display properties it says 100 Hz, but it the monitor says 75 Hz. I've tried the ReForce.exe-program, and now the only refresh rate I can select in display properties is 100 Hz, but the monitor still says 75Hz... I CAN get it to run in 100 Hz if I use Powerstrip and manually configure it in advanced properties... But that shouldn't be necessary.... Does anyone have a solution to this…?

I've also got a Samsung 12x writer, and have about the same problem... It doesn't seem to make any differense what program (nero, easy cd creator etc) I'm using, it sais something about "unable to fixate disc" and then it's practically unreadable.. Strange...

When I tried to log on to my online-bank after upgrading to XP, I was rejected because the bank though that "my browser has not been tested yet". My question: Is there any way of making IE6 identify itself as IE5...??

I have never installed SP1, so that can't be the problem... Anyone have any other ideas...? There can't be anything wrong with the hardware, since I'm able to play VCDs in Win98... I must also point out that it is ONLY VideoCD's (.dat) that doesn't work... MPEG, AVI and DIV-X works fine...

I can't play VCDs at all in win2k!! It doesn't halp to copy the file to the harddrive first either.... I've tried the preinstalled MediaPlayer 6.4 and ASUS-DVD with the same result. I've also tried reinstalling Win2K. Both programs can play VCDs in Win98 withput any problems.......

They doesn't seem to work THAT good for me anyway....

What??? The colors still gets screwed up for me anyway.... The drivers can be downloaded from: http://www.asus.com/cgi-bin/dl.asp?filename=beta/vga/w2k379b4.zip

No, there isn't... Only OpenGL VR.

There are a control panel, but all the features from the Win9x-version isn't there. There are also other things such as VR-Picture Viewer and stuff....

Do I actually gain anything by having the "Plug&Play compatible OS" setting set at ENABLED in BIOS?? Or should it be disabled? Until recently I’ve kept it ENABLED, but when I installed a new network-card last week I had to disable it, otherwise Win2K (or Win98 for that matter) wouldn’t detect the card. I haven’t noticed anything different at all since I disabled it (except for the fact that the network’s working , does it actually matter if it’s enabled or not?? Is there anything to gain by setting it to enabled? ...or disabled? Thanks! ------------------ //Albin Rangefelt (aka Lord Avalance) - albin@torget.se

What file did you use? I've noticed there are a lot of BIOS upgrade available for ASUS-cards....

Actually it was a new PnP PCI 10/100 Mbit card But anyway, what DO I actually gain by letting the OS decide IRQs and such, as opposed to letting BIOS do it?

I just got a letter from Lexmark, where they promised that new Win2K drivers for Lexmark 3200 will be available April 10:th.... For those of you who couldn't get the NT4 drivers to work. [This message has been edited by Avalance (edited 15 March 2000).]

Yeah, that's right, sorry April 10 it is....

The hacked drivers seems to be working fine for me! Haven't seen any spoolsv.exe hang-ups yet..! [This message has been edited by Avalance (edited 08 March 2000).]

We've got about 10 computers in our local network, some of them running Win98 and some of them Win2K Pro. We haven't got a server. It generally works fine to share files and resources across the network, but I've noticed one strange thing about Win2K: It takes FOREVER to get the list of shared resources from another computer! Once a specific resource has been opened, everything works fine, so if I for example write \\COMPUTER\PATCHES in Explorer, the resource opens immediately. But to get the list of shared resources simply takes forever!!! (Actually about 30 seconds, but it’s way to long anyway…) This goes almost immediately in Win98, why not in Win2K?

Hammer_One, that problem is easy to solve. Just open the Computer Management Console (from Control Panel/Admin Tools) and go to "System Tools"/"Local users and groups"/"Users". Double-click on the Guest-account and make sure the "Account is disabled"-box is not checked!

That's something I'd like to know too! I don't have TV-out anyway....

Well, hibernate seems to be working for me.. But I've noticed a lot of other bugs in ASUS' 3.79 drivers... For example: When I play an MPEG-file with hardware-acceleration enabled, the colors get inverted! To fix this I only need to open Color/Video settings in the ASUS Display Card Control-Panel and click OK, but after I reboot the problem's back. Also, the OSD display doesn't seem to be working correctly... I got this from the system event-log: "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: V66NTOSD".. Hope they fix all this soon....

I'm using AverMedias new Tv-Phone98 (/Capture98) beta-drivers, and my remote control doesn't work! It doesn't say anything in the readme about weather or not the remote should work, but all other limitations (such as the Text-TV being disabled) are mentioned. Anyone know anything about this? ------------------ //Albin Rangefelt (aka Lord Avalance) - albin@torget.se