Help[ with a Radeon 8500

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Hi folks, I have a Radeon 8500, along with a DVD player. All along I was told that I can watch DVD's on a regular TV thought the card, since it has an s-video output. I hooked everything up, but I get no picture. I went into the ATI center (the settings tab on the diplay properties window) and tried to activate the TV, but it won't even give me the option. Is there something I'm missing? I've been to ATI's website but they don't seem to have much...

Thanks in Advance



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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

DJ: I have never hooked mine to a tv, but I think you can do it in display properties under advanced. The check out the displays tab. I think you can pick 1 or 2 displays, or TV.
 
RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

That's what I tried, but it won't let me highlight the TV. I believe it thinks nothig is hooked up, but I've checked the connection several times, it there.


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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

What resolution are you running?

My All-in-Wonder 128 doesn't let me select the TV dispay if I run above 800x600

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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

I have the same problem with my Radeon 9700. I think the card looks for a certain impedance, and if it doesn't see it, it assumes that nothing is hooked up. I never did find a way to get around this, or how to make it work at all.

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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Hey!

My 7500 does the same thing on one of my TV's, on the other one it works just fine. It has something to do with that the card is looking for some parameter between some of the S-Video pins, which only one of my TVs seems to produce.

I myself did not look any further into it, because this machine is hooked up and permanently installed in my entertainment center, but I am pretty positive that with a slight mod, maybe a resistor somewhere between some S-video pins, the card can be "fooled" into thinking everything is okiedokie.

Maybe you can find some mod somewhere online?

Marcus.
 
RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Go into your BIOS and verify the setting for assign irq for vga is enabled. Most ATI cards with video in/out capabilities need this enabled, and most BIOSes disable this by default.

If you are running windows98 or lower, there is a directx patch for video capture cards that you will also need. Go to Microsoft.com and search on dirextx downloads.

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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Might be related to the resolution, crank it back to 640x480 and see what happens. If that doesn't work, try hooking it up to another input device - perhaps if your VCR has an Svideo input for instance try running it through that and see if you can get anything out of it.

We have dropped ATI products from our line, because of compatibility problems, but in general never had any serious issues out of the tv output functions.

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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

I went to an ATI specific forum and learned that the problem seems to be with the supplied S-video to RCA adatper. The easy fix is to only use S-video. Unfortuantly none of my equipment has S-video, so I guess I'll just suffer, or upgrade. The 9700 looks nice, but do to problems I've been having with ATI, I might (gasp) go GeForce.


BTW, I can't lower my resolution beyond 800x600. I've tried a few different ways, none will take. Thanks for the help though!
 
RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Do you have a link to that ATI specific forum (and a link that describes the S-video prob)? I'd like to browse around there to see what's up. I tried plugging my 9700 directly into an S-video splitter and still no dice (but I figured it was the cheap splitter I'm using).

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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Thanks for finding that link, I appreciate it.

To tell you the truth, I've been rather unimpressed with the 9700. I bought mine the week they hit store shelves for less than retail (I have a hookup at CompUSA), which just happened to coincide with me building my new computer (Athlon XP 2000). It benchmarks very well, even against the new nVidia cards that just came out. But in practice I've had less than stellar results on new games. The driver support just isn't up to par, IMO. It seems like every game I play, there's a special driver patch to fix some problem with that game, and then that patch doesn't really help all that much. Mafia and Freelancer are two bigs ones, Mafia still seems to run slow on my computer.

To be fair to ATI, my brother had the same problem when a couple of years ago he bought the latest-and-greatest nVidia card. He said it took them over a year to get stable, good-performing drivers (by which time the card was neither late nor great).

I'm only running 256meg of memory (PC3200 DDR), and I know this hamstrings my performance somewhat. I tested a gig of memory for a friend to make sure it worked recently. Having 1.2GB of memory helped noticeably, but the performance still didn't knock my socks off. (Hmm, now that I think about it, I may as well order up another gig of memory. The price has dropped a bit recently.)

[font color = blue]Tony - St. Louis, MO[/font]
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RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

ATI has aways been infamous for the driver issues. They make some darn fast cards, but the support sucks. My 8500 is pretty fast, but the screen is always darker than normal. I find myself always cranking up the gamma or brightness or whatever I can find that makes it look normal. And my favorite DVD's have a lot of darn scenes in them, which makes it nearly impossible to see what's going on. If I have that problem with the newer cards, I'm going geforce.
 
RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

If your running ATi, be sure you alway have the latest drivers, in this case, the latest drivers are the Catalyst 3.5, available at ati.com.
 
RE: Help[ with a Radeon 8500

Wow, back from the dead :)

I have the latest drivers, I think ATI is finally getting it right. I'm happy with the performance of the card now (now that the 9800 is the latest thing to have :) ).

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