ATI All-in-Wonder Fun

[houseisland]

Q: Why does ATI issue new drivers?

A: Because you finally managed to get the last ones to work.

Q: Why does the All-in-Wonder owner spend 55 minutes out of every hour struggling with driver/software issues.

A: So he can spend the other 5 minutes watching a black screen with TV audio but no TV video.

My TV is in for service.

So I thought I would pull the Athlon XP 2500+/All-in-Wonder 9600 box from the stack of cases and plug it in.

It had been working perfectly (if one ever make that claim about anything with an All-in-Wonder card in it) when I unplugged it.

And indeed when I plugged it back in, it was working just fine again.

But then I used the ATI remote to mute the sound and the close captioning, which does not work by the way - just gibberish, came on and would not go away when the sound was un-muted.

In stead of getting my lazy butt up off the couch and using a keyboard and mouse to turn off the close captioning, I boldly and foolishly used the remote. In my exploratory efforts, I found a button marked "B" that toggles through signal input choices. And then all channels were black.

I dimly remember defeating this problem once before. But quite frankly, I just don't care anymore.

Here I stand as an object lesson for all, a fool, who once in the distant past stepped off the path of righteousness by actually buying an All-in-Wonder and who now is cursed forever.

I can't even claim that I was led astray by others... "well.... I was at a party and all the cool people were doing All-in-Wonders.... this guy came over and said .... here ... try some of this ... now... now... look at me ... "

Well... I could claim it but you wouldn't believe me, would you?



Edit: And worse .... I have a box with couple more that people have given me.... Why did I take them?

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