Can't Find Driver For AMD/ATI TV Theater 650 Pro

miguelcarrasco · 05 May 2009

I think I'm going to go buy a Hauppauge. I bet it wouldnt take long at all for ATI to release a Windows 7 Driver. Too bad they dont think its important.

Ex_Brit · 05 May 2009

Come to think of it, fewer things work properly in this version than they did in 7000. I don't think it's entirely ATI's fault.

jmore9 · 06 May 2009

I have a tv wonder 650 pro pci , and to get it running i ( yes i did ) , just stuck the winxp cd in and told windows 7 to run it in xp mode and it installed the whole thing just like in winxp.

It seems to scan the channels just fine, The only thing i see is sometimes the video is jerky. But that mey be because my video card and memory of only 768.

Hope that helps.

Ex_Brit · 06 May 2009

Well by that argument it should work with the newer software running in XP mode, am I right?

I'll play around with that, and if necessary uninstall and go back in time using my CD's.....if I can find the darn things!! LOL.

Ex_Brit · 06 May 2009

By the way forgot to ask, clarify if you used plain XP or XP SP1, 2 or 3 compatability mode please.

Ex_Brit · 06 May 2009

OK, I've got it to work, for now at least.

It could have been my fault from the start. Not sure I was convinced that I had an ATI Theater 650 Pro card installed. When I double-checked I realised this morning that it was in fact the TV Wonder 650 card. Not sure if that made a difference as the drive install package seems the same, but I guess the software is different. I also installed the TV Remote Wonder software, although it has limited scope in Vista and above. I installed everything in compatability mode with Vista SP1, and so far, the Windows Media Center works.

Ex_Brit · 06 May 2009

False alarm, after a reboot it's back to black screen - unable to find the tuner.

I checked Event Viewer and this is what's in there. Looking online I can't find any solution.

Log Name: Media Center
Source: ehRecvr
Date: 06/05/2009 3:52:03 PM
Event ID: 3
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: R2D2
Description:
TV tuner encountered an error. (0xc004050b) ATI AVStream Analog Tuner
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="ehRecvr" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">3</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-06T19:52:03.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>44</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Media Center</Channel>
<Computer>R2D2</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>ATI AVStream Analog Tuner</Data>
<Data>c004050b</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

torrentg · 06 May 2009

Ex_Brit said:

I also installed the TV Remote Wonder software, although it has limited scope in Vista and above.

Hmm. I have the Remote Wonder as well and it has full functionality here in 7 as well the Media Center. Are you referring to something in particular that you are not able to use it for in Vista and above?

Maybe have a look at this thread -

ATI Remote Wonder & MC7?

Ex_Brit · 06 May 2009

I was merely quoting ATI on that. Hardly ever use it and haven't noticed any issues, until these media center issues in 7.

Ex_Brit · 08 May 2009

An update from Microsoft for Windows 7 seemed to have kicked life into my Media Center, but only for a moment. It tuned to the first channel I chose, but then relapsed into "Tuner unavailable" type nonsense when I tried other channels.

I have tried setting up the TV several times. Incidentally, when this happens the radio part conks out too.

I read somewhere that W7 RC silently reports problems to Microsoft, well, I hope they got this one.