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kithylin

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A friend of mine recently brought this by my house and gave it to me, he found it cleaning out his attic. I stuck it in a pentium3 machine and it comes up with displaying video, so the video display portion works, so next step: See if video -capture- works. However my friend does not have the original disc for this card with the drivers or software for it, and I didn't see them on amd.com either, sadly. Soo I'm hoping someone here may either have a copy of the original software, or at least point me in the right direction as to obtaining it. I was intending to use this to capture video from an old VHS deck, and convert some old movies to digital, if it works.

Photos of hardware in question:

If you wish you can click on this and view a much larger higher-detailed version to read anything on any of the components on it.



I do not know what model number this device is either, but I do know it's an ATI All-In-Wonder card.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Thank you for the prompt reply and information, I'll give that driver a try with win98 maybe sometime tomorrow, depends if i feel up to it.
I took a fall this past monday outside on my way to the mailbox.. careless neighbor left a cord on the sidewalk that's the same color as the sidewalk, light grey, and right around a corner.. didn't see it down i went, been recovering for several days, at least i can walk further than my kitchen on my own power again now. I might see if i feel up to throwing together P3 parts and setting it up tomorrow.
Do you know if i'll need any special software to use the video capture interface, after i get a correct driver loaded, or do you think something like VirtualDub may work?

I'm expecting this thing to only capture in 640x480 or 800x600, which is fine for me.

Also yes i'll use any operating system it requires, i have install discs and legitimate licenses for every version of windows from 3.11 to 2000 and beyond.
 
Windows 98 is definitely the way to go. I have a TV Wonder VE around here somewhere, it was cool with win98, worked for about a week with XP and then never again. I think one of the XP updates broke the drivers. If you can find the exact model of All in Wonder that it is, the drivers and software package are here:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

If you select "not sure" it takes you to a hardware ID page.
 
Ah! cool, maybe letting it identify the card on it's own may work. Do you know if the identify thing works with IE 5.xx, or 6.xx? i think that's the latest i can get loaded into Win98se.
 
Windows 98 comes with the drivers built in, this is an original circa 1997 "ATI All-in-Wonder". The AIW was the testbed card for the failed WebTV for Windows program. MS liked me as a beta tester because I owned the hardware and actually had CATV running to it. I actually have the original CD which has drivers for Windows 95 and I think NT 4.0. The video capture drivers are standard VfW and can be used with VirtualDub. The ATI Video Player software and drivers were also available for Windows 3.1x. AMD's website updates basically killed off any pre-2005 or so card drivers.

Archive driver links are here: http://web.archive.org/web/20001018085130/http://support.atitech.ca/drivers/3drageII+.html
Later version of the same page: http://web.archive.org/web/20020804...om/support/products/pc/rageii/aiwdrivers.html
If the internet archive links to the drivers are broken, type the file name into google. Folks archived these so they should come right up.

These are the original AV dongles the card came with:

Input: http://www.svideo.com/4head.html
Output: http://www.svideo.com/3headavoutad.html
 
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Well, thanks for posting all the software links, i'm sure it'll be useful to some... however it seems my AIW i was gifted is dieing some how, I've been trying to use it installing windows98 and the video just randomly blacks out and sometimes shows bizarre multi-colored patterns on the screen, and i know it's not the monitors, or their cables. I've tried two different CRT's, an LCD and they all do it, and i have several other video cards for that Pentium3 system, AGP and PCI and none of them do it in there, so..... guess this thing's headed for the trash, I'll probably stash it in the closet anyway.
 
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Quite possibly bad video ram although one thing they always recommend is updating to the latest available driver (if you haven't or can find it). There are also some applications that can do video memory tests or an older version of 3dmark, etc that you could probably go ahead and prove it's the card.
 
barythrin said:
Quite possibly bad video ram although one thing they always recommend is updating to the latest available driver (if you haven't or can find it). There are also some applications that can do video memory tests or an older version of 3dmark, etc that you could probably go ahead and prove it's the card.
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thanks for the suggestions but these problems i'm seeing are all below the operating system level in low-level funcitons, so it's not a software problem (driver) and i tried removing the add-in memory modules and it's still doing it so probably just dead, oh well.
 
"I'll probably stash it in the closet anyway"
If you do, stick a label on it that says "BAD" or in ten years someone will dig it out of YOUR attic and give it to an unsuspecting friend. :)
 
GottaLottaStuff said:
"I'll probably stash it in the closet anyway"
If you do, stick a label on it that says "BAD" or in ten years someone will dig it out of YOUR attic and give it to an unsuspecting friend. :)
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Lol thank you.. you just made my day. I don't have any "BAD" stickers around here but i'll have to engineer one some how.. :D
 
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