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Asus A33 DAV
Hi,
I just picked up an ASUS A33 DAV center on Ebay. It is a compact unit with a built it in sound system and two tuner cards. It isn't all that well powered for HD, but to be honest, I'm not all that concerned with that. Mainly I want it for it's DVR capabilities and SD is fine for me, really. Here's the thing, it shipped with no OS. It has HDMI and S-Video outputs, but no SVGA out. I'm not sure how I'm going to get this thing built. Plugging in the S-Video into my TV gives me no signal, and I'm guessing HDMI will do the same. It seems like the system needs an OS before it will know how to run those other outputs...but I can't get the OS going until I can see what the thing is doing. If anyone has any experience working with these, or any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks so much in advance. Dave |
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ChicagoDave wrote:
Hi, I just picked up an ASUS A33 DAV center on Ebay. It is a compact unit with a built it in sound system and two tuner cards. It isn't all that well powered for HD, but to be honest, I'm not all that concerned with that. Mainly I want it for it's DVR capabilities and SD is fine for me, really. Here's the thing, it shipped with no OS. It has HDMI and S-Video outputs, but no SVGA out. I'm not sure how I'm going to get this thing built. Plugging in the S-Video into my TV gives me no signal, and I'm guessing HDMI will do the same. It seems like the system needs an OS before it will know how to run those other outputs...but I can't get the OS going until I can see what the thing is doing. If anyone has any experience working with these, or any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks so much in advance. Dave According to the specs, it uses Windows Vista Home Premium. Sounds like it's supposed to come installed on the unit. The link below loads a flash program that gives you the info for the A33 (links at the bottom): http://event.asus.com/2007/DigitalHome/A33/EN/ |
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ChicagoDave wrote:
Hi, I just picked up an ASUS A33 DAV center on Ebay. It is a compact unit with a built it in sound system and two tuner cards. It isn't all that well powered for HD, but to be honest, I'm not all that concerned with that. Mainly I want it for it's DVR capabilities and SD is fine for me, really. Here's the thing, it shipped with no OS. It has HDMI and S-Video outputs, but no SVGA out. I'm not sure how I'm going to get this thing built. Plugging in the S-Video into my TV gives me no signal, and I'm guessing HDMI will do the same. It seems like the system needs an OS before it will know how to run those other outputs...but I can't get the OS going until I can see what the thing is doing. If anyone has any experience working with these, or any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks so much in advance. Dave Hmmm. Only one manual offered, and it is "Traditional_Chinese_Manual.zip". The pickings are pretty slim looking. Almost like this was intended for their home market. http://support.asus.com/download/dow...n-us&model=A33 But all is not lost. Go here. (Note - packet loss to Asia is high right now, causing the download rate with this particular server, to be crappy. Use this directory, just to get some file names. Don't try to download stuff here.) ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/DigitalHome/DAV/A33/ Then, tack the name of the file, like "MCE_Ext_V104.zip", onto the link the regular download server would use. This might run faster. I tried this one, and it worked. (Inside the ZIP, it says "Vista" and it is a multi-language installer.) http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Dig...E_Ext_V104.zip Since I don't read Chinese, traditional or otherwise, I can only go by the smell of what is in that download directory. It uses Vista MCE, so either there is a Vista CD in the box, or you provide some version of Vista that has MCE separately. I see two pieces of media shown as part of the package, so look for your CD/DVDs. If the machine has a BIOS, it should be displaying a 640x480 BIOS screen on some output. It doesn't have to be completely dead at startup. Just a guess, Paul |
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Asus A33 DAV
I figured it out. The bios was set to using PCI-Express video, not
the onboard. I didn't have a pci-e video card, but once I went out and got it, I was able to see and it worked fine. I have Windows 7 loaded on it right now and it works pretty darned well. It detected the Tuners and found the channels great. The guide for LiveTV is pretty out of whack, doesn't show the right listings anywhere, so that will be tonight's adventure. HD channels are as expected, kind of jittery, but the SD stuff is stellar. I'll probably going the Vista route, as that's what this box was designed for, but so far I'm really pleased with this first time around. |
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Asus A33 DAV
On Mar 25, 8:50*am, ChicagoDave wrote:
I figured it out. *The bios was set to using PCI-Express video, not the onboard. *I didn't have a pci-e video card, but once I went out and got it, I was able to see and it worked fine. I have Windows 7 loaded on it right now and it works pretty darned well. *It detected the Tuners and found the channels great. *The guide for LiveTV is pretty out of whack, doesn't show the right listings anywhere, so that will be tonight's adventure. *HD channels are as expected, kind of jittery, but the SD stuff is stellar. I'll probably going the Vista route, as that's what this box was designed for, but so far I'm really pleased with this first time around. I'm having trouble installing drivers for ASUS 33 DAV I used Vista Ultimate. In device manager i see 2 Video driver entry and 2 unknown devices. I need help finding correct drivers and installing them. the AV controller is not working either. I dont have HDMI on my TV, and svideo looks very bad on my tv. please help |
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Asus A33 DAV
I'm having trouble installing drivers for ASUS 33 DAV I used Vista
Ultimate. In device manager i see 2 Video driver entry and 2 unknown devices. I need help finding correct drivers and installing them. the AV controller is not working either. I dont have HDMI on my TV, and svideo looks very bad on my tv. please help I was able to run straight video out from the yellow jack into the game port on my regular TV and it looked okay when it played video, but was pretty horrific in terms of computer display. Running component and HDMI was okay with native drivers - but once I downloaded the Nvidia drivers it looked stellar. Now I've found a couple of other issues. One, this box runs REALLY hot. An inch or two above the top of the machine isn't enough. Likely this box won't be able to be in the cabinet at all (which defeats the purpose), and I'll likely need to either mod out the fans and CPU heatsink. The HDMI also only worked for about a day at which point it only displayed black or purple psychadelic colors. Component works well for video, but I can't get sound working now. Frankly, I'm suspecting I'm going to just salvage the tuner cards, hard drive, memory I purchased, and move on viewing this as moderately expensive lesson in buying things 'as is'. |
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ChicagoDave wrote:
I'm having trouble installing drivers for ASUS 33 DAV I used Vista Ultimate. In device manager i see 2 Video driver entry and 2 unknown devices. I need help finding correct drivers and installing them. the AV controller is not working either. I dont have HDMI on my TV, and svideo looks very bad on my tv. please help I was able to run straight video out from the yellow jack into the game port on my regular TV and it looked okay when it played video, but was pretty horrific in terms of computer display. Running component and HDMI was okay with native drivers - but once I downloaded the Nvidia drivers it looked stellar. Now I've found a couple of other issues. One, this box runs REALLY hot. An inch or two above the top of the machine isn't enough. Likely this box won't be able to be in the cabinet at all (which defeats the purpose), and I'll likely need to either mod out the fans and CPU heatsink. The HDMI also only worked for about a day at which point it only displayed black or purple psychadelic colors. Component works well for video, but I can't get sound working now. Frankly, I'm suspecting I'm going to just salvage the tuner cards, hard drive, memory I purchased, and move on viewing this as moderately expensive lesson in buying things 'as is'. Nvidia had an underfill problem with their GPUS. The failure of your HDMI, could be related to a chip failure. You'd have to trace down the Nvidia component, to see whether it is one of the affected ones. http://legacy.macnn.com/print/60132 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10119277-64.html So what you're seeing, might not be an "ordinary" electrical failure of some HDMI signals. It could be a connection failure at the GPU. Paul |
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Asus A33 DAV
i have Asus a33 running vista premium MCE. I get video over HDMI to my
TV but no audio. when i try using analog RCA i get very low sound. In device manager i see that driver is installed. Any suggestions? Any body else experience same problem? Installing PCI sound card is an option? any suggestion on cheap sound card what would work with my setup. Thanks |
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Asus A33 DAV
avakhnin wrote:
i have Asus a33 running vista premium MCE. I get video over HDMI to my TV but no audio. when i try using analog RCA i get very low sound. In device manager i see that driver is installed. Any suggestions? Any body else experience same problem? Installing PCI sound card is an option? any suggestion on cheap sound card what would work with my setup. Thanks Download directory. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/DigitalHome/DAV/A33/ User manual (as far as I know, only a Chinese manual is available). ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/Digit...ese_Manual.zip See PDF page 32, for a picture of the control panel to enable audio over HDMI. I can't read Chinese, so I can't help you more than that. Paul |
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Asus A33 DAV
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:12:51 -0400, Paul wrote:
avakhnin wrote: i have Asus a33 running vista premium MCE. I get video over HDMI to my TV but no audio. when i try using analog RCA i get very low sound. In device manager i see that driver is installed. Any suggestions? Any body else experience same problem? Installing PCI sound card is an option? any suggestion on cheap sound card what would work with my setup. Thanks Download directory. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/DigitalHome/DAV/A33/ User manual (as far as I know, only a Chinese manual is available). ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/Digit...ese_Manual.zip See PDF page 32, for a picture of the control panel to enable audio over HDMI. I can't read Chinese, so I can't help you more than that. Paul Thanks very much Paul. When I fired up the comp this morning I got an official Microsoft update of the Marvell Miniport Driver and it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks again. Dave |
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