2 Questions: AGP Card with Tv Tuner || Running onboard gfx at 200fsb

[deepblue2]

2 Questions: AGP Card with Tv Tuner || Running onboard gfx at 200fsb

[deepblue2]

Hi guys (especially johnrr6),

Here's what I've been doing to my system.

I'm running my 1700+ at 200x11 (2.2GHz) with a Radeon 8500 and a Leadtek Winfast Tv Tuner (simialr to the one used by johnrr6 here except that mine is Pal-B). The system has no problems running and is very stable. But when watching tv, i am getting horrible distortions on certain channels, especially the higher frequencies. Btw, I'm in singapore so I don't know how many of you will be familiar with it. Anyway, the lower frequency channels seem to be fine.

I immediately suspected the agp card, since it SO close to the tv tuner . So I removed it and tried out the onboard. Knowing that johnjrr6 got dead boards by running onboard video at 200fsb, i downclocked to 133fsb.

The tv tuner works fine now. And i'm running at 166fsb now. But in all honesty, I would prefer to use my 8500 instead of the onboard graphics.

So my questions are:

1) Does anybody have any problems using a tv tuner with an agp card? I thought it was the active cooling, so i plugged out the fan. But there was still distortion. SO i'm guessing its electrical interference instead of physical interference. Any comments? Anyone using a similar setup with/without problems.

2) Has anyone tried running > 166Mhz fsb with onboard graphics? Any problems? I would love to test it out but i can't afford the downtime in case the board dies on me. The stocks for the 200n in singapore isn't very high. I'll probably have to wait a month to get a replacement.


Thanks for any help guys.

[DrP]

i've got win tv 2000 next to my graphics card, and get vertical lines running down on all chnnels. Not the reception as i have run arial into a standard tv and works fine.

I think it's just that the innards are so close on the ssfs that there's bound to be interferance :-(

Oh well, not sure what to do really!

DrP

[FXMunkee]

Not quite the same but I run an AIW 9800 in my 200N and it works fine in fact the Tuner reception is much better than it used to be when I used a seperate card, although that might have been the card.
So there is a solution, albeit an expensive one. Oh and I use an Arctic VGA Cooler on the AIW card which makes it virtually silent (just need to sort the rest of the fans out now !!)

[DrAtomic]

Anyone had luck or info on the Nvidia video card/TV tuner graphics card called Personal Cinema? Similar to the ATI All-In-Wonder but is FX based, not Radeon. That might be another solution for you. Still expensive, though.
I used the on-board graphics and they worked great until I tried BF-1942. Then lockups and BSOD all the time. The IGP seems to work great for all my other apps. I also have a Shuttle SN41G2 with the Nvidia IGP and it has no problems with BF-1942 using the on-board graphics. I don’t know why Biostar has a problem, but the Shuttle has an actively cooled IGP chip, unlike Biostar’s passive design.