RE: OT (sort of) - WINTV card & Windows 2000

["Steve Morgan" <wormpurple@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

First, you're not running Terminal Services on this machine are you? IIRC,
there have been problems with a number of TV cards with Terminal Services,
presumably because of the way TS hooks into the graphics drivers.

The biggest problem I've had with the WinTV cards is that getting the
machine back to a clean state to install new drivers.

Try the following:

Open up the machine and remove the WinTV card.
Boot and run the cleanup tool available from their web site. Remove
everything.
Reboot.
Power down and put the card back in.
Boot and install the drivers and software as required.

If you don't take the card out, you'll never completely get rid of the old
drivers. This has worked for me pretty consistently.

I have had the same errors as you using ATI cards, so it's not unique to
the
Matrox.

Cheers,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 February 2002 09:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] OT (sort of) - WINTV card & Windows 2000


Is anyone here using any of the recent Win-TV PCI cards nder Windows 2000?

(Here's the ON-topic bit) - I'm trying to configure this in a HA server to
be a media feed for one zone of the house, to deliver both TV and FM radio.
- I have the Win-TV Primio FM card.

I can install the card and the drivers with no problems, device mangler
shows everything as perfect, and the FM radio application works perfectly
too.

However, neither of the TV viewing apps (wintv32 or wintv2000) will work
properly. Upon launch, I get various error messages, including:
- Connecting HCWsnapshot and overlay mixerL HR=0x80040207
- Failed to create TV window, another application may be using the driver

The error messages vary depending on whether I use the VFW drivers or the
WDM drivers (I've tried both). Also, in some instances, (rarely though)
once
the error messages are acknowledged, the application does actually launch
and display a TV window, - but with sound only, no picture.

I've trawled the hauppage website extensively, dowloaded all the latest
drivers, read the FAQ's and so on. - I'm beginning to wonder if it's my
ageing Matrox Millennuim card in this machine that might be the problem?

Does anyone have any info regarding getting the WinTV apps working under
W2K?

TIA

Paul G.




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