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MMC 8.1 Installation Problems
I “upgraded” my Windows ME OS, All in Wonder Radeon, MMC 7.0 system to
MMC 8.1 with Direct X 9.0 and Windows Media Encoder 7.1. There are four problems resulting from the above updating, which I would like to resolve: 1. The viewing screen is about 10% smaller than before. This is easily solved with monitor controls, but is an annoyance when switching back and forth between operating systems (Partition Magic). 2. The viewing screen has a flicker (looks like 60 hz) which cannot be adjusted. The Display|Settings|Advanced|Adapter box shows “75hz”, but changing it has no effect. In addition, the Display|Settings|Advanced|Displays tab shows that the monitor is operating at 60 hz--which is different from the adapter settings. 3. Before making the changes the AIW properties|Adapter box showed the driver used was ATI2DRAG.DRV, and this remained afterwards. It seems strange that the driver wasn’t upgraded on the MMC 8.1 disk I purchased from ATI. 4. I normally use 1024 x 768 resolution. To see if I could adjust the refresh rate to something better, I tried changing the resolution to 800 x 600. The machine wouldn’t do it, but started asking for necessary files. There were a LOT of them. Some I located on my machine, but others I couldn’t find either in the machine, in the original ATI installation CD, the Windows ME installation disk or in the new MMC 8.1 installation disk. So I have to stick with 1024 x 768. It has been suggested that I need to update my drivers, but I can find only one place on the ATI website where a driver is offered, and I'm not sure if it is the one or not. If I go to the drivers and software page there is a "Catalyst Windows 98/ME 3.9 Driver Download" page, it lists wme-catalyst-7-95-031028m-011774c.exe (or a 3 file version of the same thing). Should I use that? Is it ok to mix that with MMC 8.1? Or, maybe it isn't a driver problem at all. Please help. Stu Culp |
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I have the AIW Radeon w MMC V7.7 and considered upgrading to 8.+. Even
though they say the Radeon is supported, there are so many add-ons that aren't supported by the Radeon. I decided to stick with 7.7 and the things you are talking about are why. Good luck. Ed |
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