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I have an ATI 3D rage II+dvd video/tv tuner card. I think it's and older card but its ok for what I need it for does any one know where I can get the program to view TV through it. I don't need the driver windows 2000 pro finds it. The specs on the machine are Pentium 233 with 65 megs of ram, windows 2000 pro, 6.4 gig hard drive and a 20 times cd-rom. any help would be greatly apprecitated. thanks

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Short answer: that card is an older ATI 3D RAGE II+DVD board (the RAGE II family shipped with an MPEG/DVD block and, on some OEM boards, a TV encoder/tuner module). Windows 2000 may give you a basic display driver but it will not install the tuner/viewer app you need — the vendor-supplied ATI Multimedia Center / "TV Wonder" package is the usual way to view TV from an ATI tuner. (en.wikipedia.org)

Where to look for the pieces you need: AMD/ATI archived the ATI Multimedia Center (TV Wonder) Windows 2000 DirectShow beta releases (these are the official TV apps you want). Older RAGE display drivers and WDM capture/filter drivers have been mirrored on driver sites (TechSpot and driver-archive sites) if you no longer have the original CD. (drivers.amd.com)

Practical install order and checks (follow exactly):

  1. Identify the card/vendor string in Device Manager (note the PCI VID/DEV).
  2. Install the correct RAGE display driver for Win2K (use a matched/Win2K-capable package from an archive).
  3. Install Microsoft DirectX 8 (ATI’s MMC installers recommend it).
  4. Install ATI Multimedia Center / TV Wonder (the Windows‑2000 DirectShow build).
  5. If the TV app does not detect the tuner, look in Device Manager under “Sound, video and game controllers” for WDM entries such as “ATI WDM Bt829 Video,” “ATI WDM TV Tuner,” or “Rage Theater” and install the corresponding WDM driver package (archived WDM drivers exist). (drivers.amd.com)

Troubleshooting / fallbacks: many OEM RAGE II+DVD cards used vendor-specific TV software/drivers, so the MMC package can fail if the display driver isn’t one the MMC expects — ATI warned of Windows 2000 compatibility problems for older display drivers. If you can’t get everything working on Win2K, the practical options are to find the original OEM CD/software for that board, try the card in a Windows 98/ME machine that the original bundle supported, or replace the tuner with a modern USB tuner that has current drivers. This should help and also addresses the later requests from and . (drivers.amd.com)

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As far as I know, you'd need the proprietary ATi software. Check ati's website is all I can offer. A friend of mine has an ATi All-in-Wonder video card/built-in tv tuner and the ATi TV Wonder software is the only thing that will work.

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i have this card (3d rage ii dvd )(3d rage ii pci)
and i searsh to driver so much and i can't find it
can u help me
the card include a tv tunner

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well I have one too and need drivers for win 2k and the tv software. id appreciate if anyone found these drivers. i have my own tv plug in my room and would like to use it.
-mike
pc im currently building: intel pentium 4 2.53 ghz , intel pentium 4 desktop board , 128 mb video ati radeon , 4 gb ddr2 ram , dvd burner , windows 2000 sp 4 (just because!) , 500gb western digitnal caviar blue sata , and water cooling!!!

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