Tweet
CCAD & DVD Problems
What a Christmas! ! ! ! !
My system info......
Intel PII 400MMX, Chaintech 6BTM, 9GB IBM Deskstar H/D, Pioneer 103s DVD ROM, 128mb PC100 Ram, Creative AWE64 Value
Creative Voodoo II, Matrox Millennium G200 SG (16MB)AGP, Matrox Rainbow Runner, Matrox TV OUT, Matrox DVD. Win 95B (Y2K updated), DX7.0a. (all latest bios updates for G200 and system board)
I had the TV Out, DVD and an 8mb Upgrade for the G200 for Christmas, donned my anti-static wrist strap and installed this new hardware.
After the Zoran install I had a "Fatal Exception OD has occurred at 0028:CA9B25D0 in VXD CCAD (01) + 000004B0" - the figure after the "+" does vary.
Machine rebooted and my DOS display mode was compressed, this I later discovered is fixable by re-flashing the G200 bios back to the latest release which it was on prior to the TV OUT installation.
When I wish to run ANY DVD I get the above error most of the time (90%+), I get the same error if I try to run MPG files in Media Player II.
I've disabled all power management of all system devices (including the monitor).
All other Matrox functionality is fine except DVD and any form of MPG playback.
Even if after several reboots I do manage to get to play DVD's or MPG's they crash after a few minutes and reduce my system resources to near zero.
Bus mastering is enabled via drivers from Intel on the system board and DMA is selected on ALL drives.
I even downloaded ALL the latest drivers from the Matrox site (after reading all the notes first) and still no joy.
After many hours of crashes and virtually no decent on-line support from either Matrox, MGI and especially ZORAN I decided to removed the flaky Zoran Soft DVD player and use PowerDVD instead which I downloaded as a trial from the Net.
Now all is ok, I can play DVD's and MPG's fine except that I can't output them to TV very well and I don't believe the Zoran hardware is supported.
To say I am disappointed is an understatement, I have used Matrox products for years and have stood by them vigorously, the last problem (advice really) I had was a few months ago - I mailed Matrox and had no reply where Anthony Pitt from Matrox users replied the following day.
I even tried rebuilding the machine with Win98 SR2 but failed to get the Matrox display driver to function with hardware acceleration enabled (the screen display was totally corrupt) - this I discovered was tied in with USB support which I failed to disable properly in 98 hence me rebuilding back to 95B.
If anyone knows of a fix for this please advise as whilst the PowerDVD software is good, I have paid a hell of a lot of money for the Matrox hardware and I expect it to work - I wouldn't mind if I had crap equipment but I haven't.
It's been 8 days since I mailed Matrox and still no reply, I'm giving them one more week and then if I haven't had a reply I shall be excercising my rights under the SALE OF GOODS Act whereby an item has to be fit for use - in this case it isn't.
My system info......
Intel PII 400MMX, Chaintech 6BTM, 9GB IBM Deskstar H/D, Pioneer 103s DVD ROM, 128mb PC100 Ram, Creative AWE64 Value
Creative Voodoo II, Matrox Millennium G200 SG (16MB)AGP, Matrox Rainbow Runner, Matrox TV OUT, Matrox DVD. Win 95B (Y2K updated), DX7.0a. (all latest bios updates for G200 and system board)
I had the TV Out, DVD and an 8mb Upgrade for the G200 for Christmas, donned my anti-static wrist strap and installed this new hardware.
After the Zoran install I had a "Fatal Exception OD has occurred at 0028:CA9B25D0 in VXD CCAD (01) + 000004B0" - the figure after the "+" does vary.
Machine rebooted and my DOS display mode was compressed, this I later discovered is fixable by re-flashing the G200 bios back to the latest release which it was on prior to the TV OUT installation.
When I wish to run ANY DVD I get the above error most of the time (90%+), I get the same error if I try to run MPG files in Media Player II.
I've disabled all power management of all system devices (including the monitor).
All other Matrox functionality is fine except DVD and any form of MPG playback.
Even if after several reboots I do manage to get to play DVD's or MPG's they crash after a few minutes and reduce my system resources to near zero.
Bus mastering is enabled via drivers from Intel on the system board and DMA is selected on ALL drives.
I even downloaded ALL the latest drivers from the Matrox site (after reading all the notes first) and still no joy.
After many hours of crashes and virtually no decent on-line support from either Matrox, MGI and especially ZORAN I decided to removed the flaky Zoran Soft DVD player and use PowerDVD instead which I downloaded as a trial from the Net.
Now all is ok, I can play DVD's and MPG's fine except that I can't output them to TV very well and I don't believe the Zoran hardware is supported.
To say I am disappointed is an understatement, I have used Matrox products for years and have stood by them vigorously, the last problem (advice really) I had was a few months ago - I mailed Matrox and had no reply where Anthony Pitt from Matrox users replied the following day.
I even tried rebuilding the machine with Win98 SR2 but failed to get the Matrox display driver to function with hardware acceleration enabled (the screen display was totally corrupt) - this I discovered was tied in with USB support which I failed to disable properly in 98 hence me rebuilding back to 95B.
If anyone knows of a fix for this please advise as whilst the PowerDVD software is good, I have paid a hell of a lot of money for the Matrox hardware and I expect it to work - I wouldn't mind if I had crap equipment but I haven't.
It's been 8 days since I mailed Matrox and still no reply, I'm giving them one more week and then if I haven't had a reply I shall be excercising my rights under the SALE OF GOODS Act whereby an item has to be fit for use - in this case it isn't.
Comment