HD2600pro help :(

[stu8]

well heres the story purchased a nice xpert vision HD2600pro built in HDMI small card ideal for HD playback or so i thought.....

installed card with 7.6,7.7,7.8 drivers from ati and from card manufacturer

installed and uninstalled powerdvd/drivers/pure video more times than i care to remember and every time HD either blu ray or HD DVD plays for about 10 seconds corrupted and then either power dvd crashes or i get BSOD

my latest was to update MB bios still the same

so can anyone help?

i saw the bad BIOS headline is it possible i've got one of these cards?

[CooperXS]

As far as I know BIOS issue was only in 2400 cards and those were provided to Acer - OEM market.
Perhaps you can give us some ideas providing your system specs and error messages displayed in Event Viewer and BSOD screen

[tinners]

you installed purevideo ? Is that not for nvidia cards ? I thought ATI used Avivo HD for HD decoding which is included in the Catalyst drivers ?

[stu8]

thanks for the replys

pure video can work with ati cards but i tried with and without no luck

the main hardware issue talked about would be with power so i have a blue storm 500 which should be fine

since post i've tried another pc as install was on asrock 775dual that has a x4 pci express slot which i thought could be an issue but tried on kn8 sli MB and result was exactly the same

it would be good news if bios was only on 2400 as rma's a pain and i like this cards design

so far it seems its just UVD that isn't working

gonna try 7.8 official drivers rather than beta at w/e

cards in the box at mo but i'll try screen capture

[mrt9888]

I think UVD is broken on both 2600 and 2400 on some cards http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=2501&Itemid=1

[stu8]

well heres what i'm talking about no luck with 7.8 officials

no blue screen this time just software freeze

[DR]

What other codecs do you have installed? or is it a clean build?

[stu8]

the pc shown is pretty much a clean build but i had installed VLC, media player classic and winamp on before powerdvd

[stu8]

also didn't realise i hadn't said here but all is working fine with a 7600GS

[stu8]

well in case anyone is still watching i rma'd this at the mo supplier has said that the card plays fine with a downloaded hd dvd file but has no discs i've had to send discs so they can play them

if the above is true it would point at a HDCP problem but we'll see.....

am i right in thinking i saw a post about ati selling cards without HDCP??

[mrt9888]

I read that ATI had some cards without HDCP but they were only sold to Eastern Europe.

[s_kinton]

I would have tried the card in a fresh windows install before rmaing.

Did you use any sort of driver cleaner software to get rid of the nvidia drivers from the 7600GS?

[stu8]

erm i posted that i have tried this in a clean install on another computer (in the photos) and had exactly the same problem