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From: William R. Walsh on 5 Jan 2010 22:27
Hi!

> The card has 256MB and the machine has 2048MB. I don't think it's a RAM
> issue. I don't have any issues with any apps or games.

I guess that's a by-product of my using some older-but-still-viable video
adapters with limited video RAM, such as the good old Matrox MGA family of
adapters. Sometimes you could run them up to their limits, to the point
where no video memory was left to hold the overlay. The Intel 810/815 would
fall victim to that problem as well in some early implementations. (Both of
those support dedicated video memory, although it only shows up rarely. When
the dedicated memory is used, the Intel graphics will use it instead of
stealing from the system RAM in most cases. That is always nice, but it does
mean that the 81x GPU can run out of memory more easily instead of having an
essentially limitless pool to pull from.)

> I'd like to run Win7, but I'm not sure I have a machine capable

Today's word is "astounding".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxf3PWwIqew

(yes, it's my video -- and yes I just had to try it)

I'm going to face a very hard decision when Windows 2000 finally loses
support, but I think I already know how I will go with that. I'll probably
keep using it for quite a while. So far as I'm concerned, it's still the
absolute best version of Windows ever to come from Microsoft. It works, it
isn't broken and I see no need to "fix" it.

> AMD Athlon XP 2800+

How'd I know it wouldn't be that easy?

I saw a few other suggestions as produced by a web search against the error
message. Microsoft has a KB article that states any software providing
remote desktop services on Windows 2000 (such as NetMeeting) can cause this
failure. The solution is to quit the program while you want to use the TV
tuner.

Another person in a forum somewhere found that they could watch digital
(most likely ATSC/over the air) TV with their ATI TV tuner while they could
not watch analog TV. They claimed that installing the DVD decoder software
bundled with the card got it working. What an idea! (I could even see how it
might be true.)

William


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