Has anyone else given up on their RR-G?

[PurpleHaze]

I just can't use my RR-G for reliable capture anymore. In MJPEG, the resulting AVI will flash rainbow then go black and white, then flash rainbow and go back to color.

Half the time I can't even get a signal, - through RF, SVideo or Composite- (Just blue and purple squigglies) and though i've wrestled an RMA twice out of Matrox (No advance replacement -of course-, i've had to use the thing during those RMA windows), they still deny that it's even possible for this to occur. (Must be my cabling - um, no. it isn't.)


Can anyone help me here? I've been 'round here for a while to the point where i'm usually giving help not begging for it... but at this point i'm pulling my hair out.


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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P3BF 1003.A - P3-500 - G400Max
256MB 6NS - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

Hello... my name is ami. and this is my signature.

[coolfish]

Hi Ami,

I have the same problems. Set your desktop to 800x600x16bits when you are capturing. It's annoying, but it's the only way to get it to work for me.

Good luck.

Coolfish

[Pertti]

Ami,

Has it ever worked ? (re: "...capture anymore...")

As far as I can remember, Asus has already released 1005 bios for your motherboard, it's worth a try.

What else do you have in your system ?

Which versions of OS, DX, DX Media, Media Tools, ASPI, IE, QT, ETC... are you using ?

Pertti

[PurpleHaze]

Well, I'd go and say DX 7, I forget what version of the ASPI layer, and yeah I know - i should update my bios...

But the reason I didn't really focus on that is, the card's done the same thing across three motherboards so far and many different versions of QT, DX, etc.I heard some talk a while back about bad capacitors, and the thing's so far out of warranty now I don't think I can do much more than just buy a new one...

but I kinda have a feeling that Matrox should at least do something here. It's been having these problems since day one, but theyr'e so intermittent and I haven't been able to figure out exactly what causes them, so I guess matrox balks at my RMA requests.

I'll try that 800x600x16 fix mentioned before but I kinna have a feeling that isn't gonna do it, i think it's the hardware on the card...