Legacy AIW Radeon Series: how to get TV working in Vista

[Ark]

I was looking for a while for this info, but was not able to find anything but "NO WAY"

After some experimenting I got it working in Vista Ultimate SP1

This is the original AIW Radeon, very first AIW with Radeon chip
I would expect it to work with newer cards - they may need a newer display driver set.

Looks like MMC 9.08 does not use software sound extraction and uses cable connected to the sound card and that is why it is OK. YMMV

I am planning to try same thing with AIW 2006 later on.


Download:

http://ati.amd.com/support/dri...adeonxip-cat65-xp.html
Display driver 6.5
WDM Driver ver 6.5

http://ati.amd.com/support/dri...adeonxip-cat64-xp.html
Display Driver 6.4

http://ati.amd.com/support/dri...adeonxip-cat62-2k.html
Media Center 9.08

Must follow this sequence or it will not work:

Install dispaly driver v 6.5
Run exe file, once extraction finished, cancel, find extracted files and set setup.exe to run in WinXP Compatibility mode
Run setup again

Reboot
Install WDM driver 6.5
Run exe file, once extraction finished, cancel, find extracted files and set setup.exe to run in WinXP Compatibility mode
Run setup again

Reboot. You may see blue screen - ignore it at this point

Make sure all devices are recognized in control panel

Uninstal display driver 6.5 and select standard VGA
Reboot. You may see blue screen - ignore it at this point

Install dispaly driver v 6.4
Run exe file, once extraction finished, cancel, find extracted files and set setup.exe to run in WinXP Compatibility mode
Run setup again

Reboot, should not be more blue screens

Install Multimdea center 9.08
Run exe file, once extraction finished, cancel, find extracted files and set setup.exe to run in Win2000 Compatibility mode
It will not run in XP mode!
Run setup again

Enjoy your TV!

 

[nemesismk2]

Thanks for the info, I am sure it will come in handy in the future.

 

[Ark]

As I see in other posts, current versions of MMC don't work in Vista

While ago I found that ver 9.08 is the most reliable version for XP as well for AIW RADEON and AIW2006, but 2006 needs newer drivers.
As far as I understood newers All-In-Wonder cards all have Vista drivers, but MMC does not work in Vista.
So it's may be worth to try MMC 9.08 - I got it working - I hope it will help someone too.