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

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

>
>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.
>

No, this is Win2K Pro, not server...


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

Initially I reformatted the drive and installed a new clean build of W2K.
However, the one thing I have consistently done throughout is to build the
OS with the card already installed, so it detects it, but doesn't install
any drivers. - This leaves a couple of unknown devices in the Device
Mangler
tree, (one each for the Audio & Video device). I then reinstall the
drivers
for those devices usng the newer ones I DL'd from Hauppage...


>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 think what I'll do tonight is remove the WinTV card, and nuke everything
out as you have suggested, and THEN flash the Matrox cards' BIOS up to the
latest available (which I just downloaded), and also install the latest
available Win2K drivers for it as well, before adding the WinTV card back
in...


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

Also sort of encouraging news...

Thanks.

Paul G.



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