nVidia Capture Troubles

[Ruler2112]

I've got an AMD 1700+ running on an AOpen nForce-2 mobo with an XFX 128 meg GeForce4 Ti4200 video card that has VIVO. I have been having problems getting 98SE to work on it and was wondering if anybody here has any suggestions.

If I install the nForce drivers and graphics drivers, everything works fine except of course for the video capture. If I then install the WDM drivers and reboot, the devices are detected fine. I can restart windoze as many times as I want (holding shift as I say OK to restart), but if I restart the computer, I get a Windows Protection Error- You need to restart your computer message. This persists until I either remove the WDM drivers or install the graphics card drivers over them while in Safe Mode. If I do either, the video capture devices are no longer listed in the device manager. I've tried loading the drivers in different orders on fresh installs of SE, but the only way to get the video capture devices listed in the device manager is is the WDM drivers are loaded last. (The devices are detected on the next reboot, then the machine won't boot.)

I have the latest drivers for the video card, nForce chipset, and WDM as of yesterday. I have been unable to find anything on nVidia's web site and googling was of no help - there are about 800,000,000,000,000,000,000 hits, but they're all for people with similar problems, but nobody with a solution that I've found. I'm frankly stumped. Anybody have any suggestions?

[sfw1960]

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All In Wonder Radeon??
DOH!!!!!!!!!!!
http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloa...nguage=English

You're not using the AOpen written drvers are you? Sometimes they are customized -- so you HAFTA go with th OEM stuff.... (AK79D-400VN ~ with R1.10 BIOS , right?)
Check your mail , bro!

[Ruler2112]

I saw your message, but have been too busy to even read it. I *WILL* stop working so much, I *WILL stop working so much.... I'll shoot you a response tonight Robert.

That's a really good thought about the AOpen drivers; hadn't thought of that. I'll download them and give em a shot to see if they fix things up.

[Ruler2112]

I tried the AOpen specific drivers and no-go. (Instead of a WPE, I get nothin- windoze boot logo just hangs and I have to reboot.) I did however, find a somewhat clunky workaround last night that seems to work. It also confirms that there's nothing wrong with the hardware or drivers.

What I came up with was to disable the device in the device manager (only the WDM Universal driver- the other 3 devices don't cause any problem). I can boot and do whatever I want. When I want to capture video, go into DM and click 'Enable Device'. I can then capture perfectly (without rebooting), but MUST remember to disable the WDM universal capture device again before I shut down. If I don't, I'll need to boot to safe mode and disable it there before being able to get back into standard windoze.

This really is a screwy problem. I don't think it's a driver issue, as the capture works perfectly. I don't think it's a hardware issue, same reason. For some reason, windoze doesn't like having the device active at boot time, but doesn't mind starting it later.


Robert- I don't have your e-mail addy here (work), but will send you a message when I get home tonight.