Troubles with ATI drivers, crashing ATI MMC! Audio drivers?

[LFonseca]

Hello,
I finally received the ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 pro. Unfortunately I'm having massive problems trying to make it work. ATI-MMC is version 8.7. The issue is, when the program first starts, during TV setup, it goes all the way to the screen where I'm supposed to connect the audio cable from the ATI board output to one of the PC soundcard inputs. I do not have this cable (I do have the ATI inputs cable, but not the outputs cable). I try to bypass this screen, but right in the next one, where I'm suppose to say where I connected the cable to, the software completely crashes, windows error.

Now I know for a fact that the issue is audio related, since if I disable audio on the motherboard it will bypass this screen entirely and I can view and capture video, but I find it strange that the program would crash due to a missing audio cable? Anyone has any ideas?

(some additional notes, windows is XP 32 bit SP3, motherboard is ASRock 775dual-vsts, 2 GB ram, ASRock MB drivers installed, all ATI drivers apparently correctly installed, audio drivers appear to be correctly installed as well, PC audio is working), no anti-virus atm, and no other software that could cause errors)

Also, the ATI-MMC test mode passes without any issues.

[NJRoadfan]

I don't recall ever seeing this screen when I installed MMC 8.8, but its likely crashing because of the soundcard's driver. Also make sure the latest DirectX 9 redistributable is installed.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=8109

[LFonseca]

Updated the sound driver, mmc to9.0 and directx. Still the same. Photos included:

[lordsmurf]

Installing captures cards is never fun. And any card, not just ATI. It's about 50/50 whether it will just work perfectly the first time. There's too many variables.

What card is it? (Never use on-board. It often does NOT work.)

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[LFonseca]

Onboard. Darn. Never had nowhere near this many troubles with a computer before Back to drawing board, need to get a PCI sound card. Do I also need the ATI output cable to connect to the sound card or can I connect the sound directly from the video source?