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You're going to need to provide a good deal more precise and specific information about what hardware you actually have, what software you want to use to watch TV (presumably that's what you want to do), etc., if we're to be able to help you acceptably.

Exactly WHAT is the model of the ATI TV Wonder card you have? What do you expect its capabilities are, and what/how do you intend to (or desire to) use it??

What do you you plan to (or want to) use as your TV recording/viewing DVR-like software?? Windows Media Center? BeyondTV? ATI Catalyst Media Center? Some other product? What??

What is your own computer hardware? Please complete your Specs so that we know what your machine looks like.
 

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Exactly WHAT is the model of the ATI TV Wonder card you have?

ATI 109-A10000-00 All-In-Wonder E117942 PCI TV Tuner Card
ATI 109 A10000 00 All in Wonder E117942 PCI TV Tuner Card Tested Working | eBay

Looking at his picture, it is an ATI HDTV Wonder PCI

What do you expect its capabilities are, and what/how do you intend to (or desire to) use it??

I expect it to watch HDTV OTA ATSC and also record HDTV.

What do you you plan to (or want to) use as your TV recording/viewing DVR-like software?? Windows Media Center?

I plan to use it in WMC, windows 7.

What is your own computer hardware?

This PC is a pentium 4 3.0 ghz 800 fsb, 1gb ddr ram, gigabit LAN, HD2600 pro amd video card.
It can watch recorded TV from my LAN linked WMC downstairs TV perfectly. It can also watch Netflix perfectly.
MB is PM8M-V MSI. 32 bit win7

I did find many possible driver links on Microsofts update catalog site,
here is what I found so far about this working in windows 7.
I saved links to what might be good.

Perhaps just need 2 of these, the DTV tuner and the BDA driver
Code:
https://www.google.ca/search?as_q=hdtv+wonder&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.update.microsoft.com%2F&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&lr=&q=wonder++site:http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/&start=10

ATI Technologies, Inc - Video - ATI DTV Wonder Digital Tuner Device  9850520.cab 
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=662ef039-83c2-46f1-b9be-ad976059de5d
9850520.cab


X10 Wireless Technology Inc. - Other Hardware - ATI Remote Wonder Plus  10645033.cab
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=2da071e6-6b3b-4f4c-bf15-2c31436eb6a8


ATI DTV Wonder Digital BDA Capture Device   10331996.cab 
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=3fe57356-209c-4cb3-a3f1-953ebf05fbc4


ATI Technologies, Inc - Video - ATI DTV Wonder Analog AV Crossbar Device 11748338.cab 
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=23157cb2-b3f9-40a4-958a-ee9f11e68c93


ATI Technologies, Inc - Video - ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture  9725109.cab 
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=3304c028-203d-4e65-9c36-d09eb0c48650

64 bits  
Description: Beta Update for ATI DTV Wonder Digital Tuner Device   9312817.cab 
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewRedirect.aspx?updateid=3e7d1c39-900d-4302-896a-996d40d1ce75




http://www.avsforum.com/t/1107312/windows-7-and-ati-hdtv-wonder

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=290314

http://forums.legitreviews.com/about24776.html

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1518938
 

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Do you actually have the card physically installed in your computer yet? If it's installed, can you provide the "hardware ID" from Device Manager? The 109-A10000-00 E117942 is not a real designation of the particular MODEL of the All-In-Wonder card. ATI make many versions of this card, but you need to provide that actual "model" to have any chance of finding related software on the ATI/AMD driver site.

Also, that card is probably so old it might only work on WinXP, not Win7. But again, the actual "model" of the card needs to be known to get started searching properly.

Do you have Win7 32-bit installed on this computer, or 64-bit? I'm guessing 32-bit.

But in reality your PC is very VERY small (memory wise), and very old. You already have a video card in it, and a VERY OLD SLOW video card at that. You don't need another graphics card. Plus, I honestly can't imagine running a Win7 machine with WMC in 1GB of memory. Seems like it might be time for an upgrade all around.

The ATI All-In-Wonder card was a combination graphics card and TV Tuner card, and is probably 8 years old. If you want to try and use your old PC as a second WMC machine you should try and find a compatible TV tuner card (e.g. an old ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI TV 1-tuner card, which I have one I'd be glad to sell you as I've long ago replaced it with a Hauppauge 2-tuner HVR-2250 PCIe card in my new machine) which I know DOES work on Win7 with WMC. But you're really underpowered on that machine of yours.

Can't provide any more help without the particular "model" of your AIW card, and/or the "hardware ID" from Device Manager if you've got it in your machine right now.
 

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The wonder card will be here in a few days, so I will post back.
This is only a tuner, not having any video, so not an all in wonder.
The tuner does ATSC and NTSC, of course NTSC is dead now.
It is win 32 bt.
My feeling is it will work as others have also said in various forums.

I have linked this PC wmc to the other downstairs PC wmc, which means it will use the other pc's wmc recorded tv for storage. So the small 80gb hard drive is not an issue as it will use the other pc 1 TB for watching and recording TV.

It certainly can watch just fine recorded TV that was recorded on the downstairs PC right in WMC, all the shows are there showing up on both PC's.
 

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Should just be a driver install for it to work, finding the right driver may be the problem. I did a ATI usb tv tuner, driver and program installed and it ran great, media player found it without problem. Gave me about 30 online channels.
 

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That eBay description is for a member of the All-In-Wonder family of cards (combined graphs and TV tuner), not one the TV Wonder cards which were tuner-only. So I wouldn't be so sure until the card arrived.

In any case, before replacing my single-tuner ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI card (for OTA/ATSC use originally with BeyondTV under WinXP, and then later with WMC x64 under Win7) the appropriate Win7 drivers were obtained from the standard ATI/AMD driver download page by specifying the combination of (1) system: TV tuner products, (2) product family: TV tuner series, (3) your product: TV Wonder 650 Pro Series, and (4) supported OS: Win7 64-bit, for me.

The resulting search pointed to the ATI Theater Video Driver that supported a handful of most recent TV Tuner cards (not the older ones, but the newer ones) under Win7 32/64-bit. In particular my 650 PCI card was supported, thankfully. This is the driver which is specifically for a family of recent ATI TV Tuner cards, not All-In-Wonder cards. It works perfectly with WMC.

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Your card, once you receive it, may well NOT be supported especially if it is truly an All-In-Wonder card as the eBay listing shows. Certainly doesn't look like my own TV Wonder 650 PCI card.

Doing a similar attempted search for proper drivers for an All-In-Wonder product, we come back to that point I asked about previously. Namely, what MODEL of card is this... not its serial number or UPC code. And very few of the All-In-Wonder cards had support in Win7. The older ones ceased being supported beyond WinXP, or possibly Vista.

And besides, you already have another graphics card (HD2600) in that machine. I believe the All-In-Wonder cards are not targeted for machines that already have a graphics card, since they provide BOTH graphics and TV support themselves.

Nevertheless, use the AMD driver download site to see if you can find the correct driver for Win7 x86 to meet your needs.
 

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If you look at the picture of this item, you can see there is no video output such as vga or dvi.
All it has is
coax for atsc
coax for ntsc
svideo break out plug, the card is also a capture card which uses one of those multi cables with svideo, composite, stereo sound, perhaps component video too.

remote eye blaster thing for a remote control?

If this guy sends me something other than what the picture shows, I will open a case.
found a nice review on this card
http://www.anandtech.com/show/1359/3
 

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It works or all those people who posted that it does work in win7 lied.

I also have a vbox usb 3560 which works in 64 bit win7 but there are no win7 drivers for it, just xp drivers..
 

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Got the card plugged in and here are the hardware ids.

A very good reason to have the drivers yourself is , who knows if they might disappear from the web.
 

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got everything installed.
all it needs for 32 bit are 2 downloads.

ATI Technologies, Inc - Video - ATI DTV Wonder Digital Tuner Device 9850520.cab
Microsoft Update Catalog
9850520.cab

ATI DTV Wonder Digital BDA Capture Device 10331996.cab
Microsoft Update Catalog

luckily I already downloaded them, BECAUSE the first one, my link is dead!!
 

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Card works very well with WMC in windows 7.
Glad I got it.

The ATI driver is a cab file and was listed for XP.
You have to extract it first with winzip etc....
Then in device manager click update driver and point to the location of the extracted files.

I zipped up the ATI XP driver files and included one 64 bit beta one. I do not have win 7 64 on this PC.

I dont know if these drivers are on the ATI site anymore seeing how old the card is.
 

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Glad you got the right software for the card. It's pretty interesting that while none of it says it's usable with Win7 (even 32-bit) but rather is intended for XP, that your experience confirms that of others as you've described... and that it DOES work with 32-bit Win7.

Interestingly, the sets of driver files you pointed to on the MS Update Catalog site seem to be older versions: (1) Version: 3.0.83.2026, Version Date: 1/31/2005 and (2) Version: 3.0.83.2030, Version Date: 3/3/2005.

In contrast, the existing ATI driver site (for the official current XP version) which was pointed to by Stormy13 is a bit newer. Running the self-extracting installer file for the "HDTV Wonder Drivers v6.1" and then looking inside the resulting INF in the expanded folders, it is described as "DriverVer=09/26/2005, 3.0.83.2036".

Furthermore, when I myself did a search on the MS Update Catalog site for pci\ven_14f1&dev_8800&subsys_a1011002 (and 8801 and 8802) and downloaded everything which returned, I got the identical most recent 3.0.83.2036 versions which match the current ATI drivers. I don't know why you retrieved the older versions from the MS Update Catalog site.

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Trying to use the downloaded official ATI WDM installer file (in self-extracting self-running EXE form) seems to at least get started on my 64-bit Win7 system (which is how I expanded it, to look at the imbedded INF) although I obviously canceled it and didn't let it actually run the SETUP.EXE past the initial screen.

As to whether it would actually successfully self-install the five drivers (for the five ATI DTV devices ultimately shown in your Device Manager screenshot) if allowed to run in your 32-bit Win7 system, well I don't know.

But certainly the same set of INF etc. files you downloaded from the MS Update Catalog site (or, certainly the 2036 latest version if you go after it again) and then used to install the drivers in your 32-bit Win7 system is also contained in the self-expanded result of running the ATI installer file to produce the expanded folders, even if you don't complete the official ATI installation itself in Win7.


Nevertheless, glad your story ended with success and that your ATI DTV Wonder card is now working properly with WMC on your older+smaller 32-bit Win7 system, and that you can actually tune to digital channels and record programs. Oh, and it's NOT an "All In Wonder" card containing both graphics and TV tuner. It's just a "DTV Wonder" tuner card. It's original eBay listing was definitely not quite accurate.

In the end, this was obviously the goal.

P.S. - if you're ever looking to upgrade to a dual-tuner card, I can highly recommend the Hauppauge HVR-2250. Two OTA/ATSC tuners, and works perfectly with WMC 64-bit. I don't use the WinTV app that Hauppauge provides, because I depend on WMC and WMC extenders to remote HDTV's around my home. Plus, I already use WMC with a Ceton InfiniTV4 cablecard-enabled 4-tuner card to support access to my Time Warner Cable copy-freely and copy-protected content. And WMC supports both TV tuner cards simultaneously (i.e. I have SIX tuners, 2 for OTA/ATSC and 4 for cable).
 

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Hi dsperber, how did you search the update site by hand like that?
I would really like to know.:)

I did my limited search using Google advanced search and the domain name.
I also don't know why one of my earlier working driver links died.
I manually ran the updates in windows 7 and it showed an analog one for the card so installed it.

Yes working great, I have all my local channels, and the streaming is smooth with no glitches.

This is on a 478 pentium 2.8 ghz cpu and PM8M-v ver2 MB.
I have an HD2600 PRO video card without which it might not work.
Before I got the tuner and the HDTV card, I had an old slow geforce 6200 and it could not play Netflix at all.
That card did easily play the recorded 1080p wtv files from another WMC. I have this pc linked by gigabit lan to another WMC PC for storage, so my little 80gb IDE drive is all it needs. So when I record on this, the file ends up on the other PC. I wonder what happens if the other PC and this PC try to record the same HDTV channel at the same time? East to do that if your setting WMC to record a series.

When I go there Using ubuntu linux, I see this screen. Is that why?
 

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Hi dsperber, how did you search the update site by hand like that?
I would really like to know.
You MUST be using Internet Explorer on a Windows OS, not any other browser or any other OS. If you use any other method to get there the site will reject it and present some type of alternative response which won't let you do a driver download yourself.

You get to the main page through its portal URL but again, it MUST be using IE on a Windows system. Very often the search results show two or three seemingly identical items, each offering you to download that driver package. Although not annotated as such, these are generally for x86, x64, and IA64 target machine environments. If you download all of them and look at the file name of the ZIP, you'll see which is which.

Then just enter the hardware id info in the "search" field. That's why I had previously asked you if the card was installed (and probably currently showing yellow exclamation marks if the drivers had not yet been installed successfully).

So as I mentioned in my earlier post, once you provided the hardware id I entered it in the "search" field:
pci\ven_14f1&dev_8800&subsys_a1011002
Press ENTER, and the response is that screenshot I posted above. I pushed the "add all" button to add everything shown (or I could have pushed "add" on individual items) to my download basket, then "view basket", then pushed the "download" button to launch a second download window, then pushed "browse" to let me specify a target folder for the downloads, and then pushed the "continue" button to initiate the download of all selected files into the specified target folder.
 

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Windows 7 Pro x64 (1), Win7 Pro X64 (2)i5-3350p 3.1Ghz/6MB-cache (1); E8400 3.0Ghz/6...8GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (1); 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3 (2)ATI HD7750 (1), (see TV cards); ATI R7 250 (2)
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home-built, two systems (1) and (2)
OS
Windows 7 Pro x64 (1), Win7 Pro X64 (2)
CPU
i5-3350p 3.1Ghz/6MB-cache (1); E8400 3.0Ghz/6MB-cache (2)
Motherboard
ASUS P8Z77-V Pro (1); ASUS P5Q3 (2)
Memory
8GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (1); 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3 (2)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD7750 (1), (see TV cards); ATI R7 250 (2)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC892 HD Audio (1); Realtek ALC1200 HD Audio (2)
Monitor(s) Displays
Eizo HD2441W LCD, Eizo S2433W (1); Eizo 24" S2433W (2)
Screen Resolution
1920x1200, 1920x1200 (1); 1920x1200 (2)
Hard Drives
(1) 1TB SATA-II (7200RPM), 2x2TB SATA-III (7200RPM), 250GB SATA-III (10000RPM) for OS; 2x2TB external USB 3.0

(2) 320GB SATA-II (7200RPM), 750GB SATA-II (7200RPM), 150GB SATA-II (10000RPM) for OS; 2TB external USB 3.0
PSU
Nesteq ECS-6001 600W (1); Nesteq ECS-5001 500W (2)
Case
Acousti-Case 360 (1) and (2)
Cooling
Noctua NH-U12P SE2 for CPU, 2x120mm case fans (1) and (2)
Keyboard
IBM PS/2 (1) and (2)
Mouse
Logitech MX Revolution wireless (1); Microsoft wired (2)
Internet Speed
100mbps down / 10mbps up
Antivirus
Microsoft Security Essentials; Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Pro
Browser
Firefox
Other Info
Ceton InfiniTV 4-tuner cablecard-enabled TV card as well as Hauppauge HVR-2250 OTA/ATSC 2-tuner TV card in (1), running under Win7 WMC
I like that MS will let you do that, get a copy of the drivers.
I had always thought you had to use the builtin windows update.
Thanks for the info.

That old PC has been on for 2 days and no problems. My total cost to upgrade was $67 including the tuner card. I buy mostly off ebay looking to get bargains. A core2duo setup would have been as much as $90 after video card, memory, mb, cpu. I tend to keep PC's and parts a long time. And this case and MB came off the street, PS had failed, all sorts of personal stuff, people should be more careful.

I may dual boot this with ubuntu to see how mythtv works. The tuner is supported in linux.
Wife is very tech challenged, WMC is easy to use and still she complains, just wants to turn it on and switch channels like old style TV used to be. Also does not think much of Dolby 5.1 surround sound. She says it is all to complicated.
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The driver does have an issue, if the PC goes to sleep, the HDTV card does not wake up.
I have to turn it all the way off then on. Then it works again.

Sleep state, can it be adjusted for various devices, like put PC to sleep but keep card awake?
I will test hibernate.
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I just have to keep PC awake.

I also discovered this tuner is more sensitive to multipath interference than my vbox 3560 usb or HDTV.
I had to use the rotator to turn the antenna 10 degrees to SW. And has been ok since.
Symptom was on channel 3, 10, 13 the picture sometimes breaks up in real odd ways, blocks, smudges, sound stutter. And sometimes it would go away, come back, very random. Switch channels may or may not help.

My roof antenna is small and old but it mostly works.

So if you get one of these, consider you current antenna and area, trees, buildings, hills all can reflect TV signal

Other than sleep issue and multipath, tuner is great.

Editing because the rain is finally gone, the sun is out, everything is drying up and the multipath signal reflections off all the wet surfaces is gone away completely, solid signal, no drops.
Great tuner for the price I paid. Hard to imagine people paying over $200 9 years ago for that when I got it for $11.98

I will need to trim back some big branches and I want to get a bigger antenna.
 
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
could i get some help, when i go to the device manager and try to install the drivers i go to the folder where the drivers r but they do not appear, not sure y, i am running windows 7 pro 64 bit and had it working previously before i reinstalled windows 7 i even got it to work yesterday by just choosing to find the drivers online through device manager, but now that wont work, windows is so damn inconsistent i swear thank u all in advance
 

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windows 7 32 bit
Computer type
PC/Desktop
OS
windows 7 32 bit
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