Marvel G400 & TV-out under XP

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:39:59 +1000, Garrett Prestage pondered exceedingly, then
took quill in hand and carefully composed...

| I have recently upgraded to windows XP only to discover that Matrox is
| failing to provide appropriate customer support for the Marvel g400 - though
| I love their products I think their customer support stinks. Anyway, now my
| card can still capture video but no TV-out or dual-head. Is there anyway
| around this? And if there is no way around this problem, is it possible to
| install a separate inexpensive card to do the TV-out functions without
| compromising the g400's performance?

Have you tried the Matrox Forum? I've found that's the very best place to go
with specific support-type questions.

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/forum/agree.cfm

Larc



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That's exactly right - but it seems that Matrox has now decided that anyone
who purchased a Marvel G400 should never upgrade or else should just accept
a product that's actually little different to so many others on the market.


"Chimera" <nospam.DeleteThis@thanks.com> wrote in message
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 > Garrett Prestage wrote:
  > > I have recently upgraded to windows XP only to discover that Matrox is
  > > failing to provide appropriate customer support for the Marvel g400 -
 > though
  > > I love their products I think their customer support stinks. Anyway, now
 > my
  > > card can still capture video but no TV-out or dual-head. Is there anyway
  > > around this? And if there is no way around this problem, is it possible
to
  > > install a separate inexpensive card to do the TV-out functions without
  > > compromising the g400's performance?
 >
 > The TV out & dual head abilities are what set the matrox cards apart from
 > the other 2D/3D + TV out cards on the market.
 >
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Matrox dropped support for the G400 starting with Win 2000.

They had problems getting it working on Win 2000, and you're mostly out of
luck. No support from Matrox.

However, I heard that a "lone wolf" developer has created drivers for the
newer Windows versions. It's at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://adis.szm.com" target="_blank">http://adis.szm.com</a>

I have no information as to whether this will work or not.

"Garrett Prestage" <g.prestage.DeleteThis@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
news:bg02ur$cmt$1@tomahawk.unsw.edu.au...
 > I have recently upgraded to windows XP only to discover that Matrox is
 > failing to provide appropriate customer support for the Marvel g400 -
though
 > I love their products I think their customer support stinks. Anyway, now
my
 > card can still capture video but no TV-out or dual-head. Is there anyway
 > around this? And if there is no way around this problem, is it possible to
 > install a separate inexpensive card to do the TV-out functions without
 > compromising the g400's performance?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Marvel G400 & TV-out under XP 

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:39:59 +1000, "Garrett Prestage"
<g.prestage.TakeThisOut@unsw.edu.au> wrote:

 >I have recently upgraded to windows XP only to discover that Matrox is
 >failing to provide appropriate customer support for the Marvel g400 - though
 >I love their products I think their customer support stinks. Anyway, now my
 >card can still capture video but no TV-out or dual-head. Is there anyway
 >around this? And if there is no way around this problem, is it possible to
 >install a separate inexpensive card to do the TV-out functions without
 >compromising the g400's performance?
 >
 >
The adis drivers work absolutely great under W2K and XP for me and my
RR-G/G400 combo<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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