Pastor John,

All of a sudden problems can be hardware related, but more often come from a
sudden software or driver conflicts.

Have you checked the Device Manager for the ATI audio & video drivers to see
if they now have any resource or driver conflicts?
Do you remember installing anything new just before the sudden failures?
Have you checked to make sure that the default capture mode's codec is still
in the Multimedia Devices tab and that the driver is still under the Video
Capture devices?  You should be able to download & reinstall codecs from the
Net in case any are corrupt.
Have you downloaded and installed the most recent ATI video card and
multimedia drivers/software for each operating system you've tried?
Have you checked ATI's problems database for recommendations?

Unless your drives (DVD, Zip or HDD) are very old, I'd recommend the DMA
setting.  If it causes problems, use safe mode to set them back.

Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Desperation!


> I'll paste the original problem below... do you think this
> could be due to a motherboard problem?  I noticed that my DVD
> is operating under PIO instead of DMA.  I've pretty much
> decided it's not a hard drive issue, and probably not a video
> card issue... any help would be great!  I don't want to be
> humbled by taking it to the repair shop.
>
> Problem-
> My ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon worked BEAUTIFULLY until last
> week.  All of a sudden, when trying to record (capture) I am
> having severe problems.  When I record, the countdown timer
> that lets me know how much time is left on the hard drive
> doesn't move at all.  Then, when I click to stop capturing and
> the video screen freezes.  The audio continues.  I have to 'end
> task' to get out of it.  It doesn't appear to be able to
> communicate and save to the hard drive.  It's definately not a
> driver/software issue.  I've formatted the drive twice and have
> tried the card on Win98, Win2000 and WinXP.  (All on the same
> computer).  My next thought was that it may be the hard drive,
> but Western Digital said if files save normally in other
> applications, it's not a hard drive issue.  Then, I thought it
> may be the video card itself.  I'm not convinced, though.  I do
> get a warning when installing the 7.1 multimedia software that
> one of my drives (one associated with my Zip drive actually) is
> operating under PIO instead of DMA.  Sound like a motherboard?
> Any ideas??
> Pastor John & Amy Burton
> [log in to unmask]
> www.revolutionchurch.net
> (719) 201-1028
>
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