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P5WD2 Premium WiFi-Tv - FM receiver only works for a few minutes
Just got a P5WD2 with the WiFi-Tv option. Running it with 840 Pentium D
(3.2 ghz), 2 Gigs of DDR2 800 ram, and a single SATA drive. I know this is a brand new board and it's likey not many are using it yet. But just in case anyone else has it I'll ask. TV and WiFi part of the optional PCI card appear to work fine. If I use the 'FM radio' part it works for a few minutes then dies with just static. Quiting and restarting 'PowerCinema' does not get the FM radio working again. If I reboot of course it starts again and runs for a few minutes then dies. If I switch to 'analog' TV, then switch back to FM radio it starts working again. There are no BIOS updates nor WiFi-Tv driver updates available on ASUS's site. I'm hoping this is just a driver/bios issue that they will address in an update. Any suggestions? |
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Hello doug you wrote:
Just got a P5WD2 with the WiFi-Tv option. Running it with 840 Pentium D (3.2 ghz), ...... Don't you mean 640? -- Regards, Bob |
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Nope it's an 840 dual core, Pentium D. One other oddity to note, after
post when the bios lists all devices, memory, etc. You get the countdown from 9 and the message hit esc to boot without waiting. Hitting esc at that point does nothing. Matter of fact the keyboard 'appears' to be frozen and even if you hit ctrl+alt+del it doesn't reboot till it finishes the countdown! Bob Byrne wrote: Don't you mean 640? |
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doug wrote:
Just got a P5WD2 with the WiFi-Tv option. Running it with 840 Pentium D (3.2 ghz), 2 Gigs of DDR2 800 ram, and a single SATA drive. I know this is a brand new board and it's likey not many are using it yet. But just in case anyone else has it I'll ask. TV and WiFi part of the optional PCI card appear to work fine. If I use the 'FM radio' part it works for a few minutes then dies with just static. Quiting and restarting 'PowerCinema' does not get the FM radio working again. If I reboot of course it starts again and runs for a few minutes then dies. If I switch to 'analog' TV, then switch back to FM radio it starts working again. There are no BIOS updates nor WiFi-Tv driver updates available on ASUS's site. I'm hoping this is just a driver/bios issue that they will address in an update. Any suggestions? Have you tried using it in a different PCI slot? Sometimes certain slots share resources with other things that might cause problems, so it should be worth a try. I was thinking of getting one of these boards myself, and I wanted to be able to dual-boot Win98SE and WinXP. Would you mind checking the driver CD that came with it to see if there are any Win98SE drivers on it (or maybe it lists OS requirements on the box)? I noticed that Intel does not have any downloadable 955x chipset drivers for Win98SE, so I'm thinking that Win98SE may not work with this board. |
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Looking through the cd I see no drivers for win98. Only win 2000, xp,
2003 server, and linux. So it looks like you'd be out of luck with 98se. I was thinking of moving the card to another pci slot, I'm in slot 3 now which appears to be the least shared. I'll try the other two to see if this resolves it. Thanks wrote: Have you tried using it in a different PCI slot? Sometimes certain slots share resources with other things that might cause problems, so it should be worth a try. I was thinking of getting one of these boards myself, and I wanted to be able to dual-boot Win98SE and WinXP. Would you mind checking the driver CD that came with it to see if there are any Win98SE drivers on it (or maybe it lists OS requirements on the box)? I noticed that Intel does not have any downloadable 955x chipset drivers for Win98SE, so I'm thinking that Win98SE may not work with this board. |
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doug wrote:
Looking through the cd I see no drivers for win98. Only win 2000, xp, 2003 server, and linux. So it looks like you'd be out of luck with 98se. OK, thanks. I may go for the P5AD2-E then. I'll have to wait till my next upgrade to consider a dual-core processor (or whatever they have by that time). I was thinking of moving the card to another pci slot, I'm in slot 3 now which appears to be the least shared. I'll try the other two to see if this resolves it. Thanks |
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I have the exact same problem with the FM Tuner portion of the WiFi-TV
card... Well, except mine only lasts for about 15 seconds before I get the static. I happened to be on the phone with ASUS last night about something completely un-related, but I mentioned it to them and they said they'd let the right support people know. You might just call them to let them know you're having the same issues. They said to keep an eye on their website for updates (duh), but other than that they couldn't help me much since the product is still fairly new. Oh well, the P5WD2 board still works great and the WiFi and TV part of the add-on card are OK. My only other complaint is the Cyberlink suite that comes with the WiFi-TV card, it's a little cheesy. I also don't think they provide a standard WDM capture driver with the WiFi-TV board, so using other software for video capture becomes more complicated. I haven't fully investigated that issue though. |
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