I have a working Dell PC with an AGP slot that I am planning to use as a capture rig. I picked up an ATI AIW 9800 SE and Turtle Beach Santa Cruz on eBay. So far, so good.
Plan A:
I disabled the onboard sound card and installed the Santa Cruz. It didn’t trigger “found new hardware” but 3 new entries appeared in device manager for Crystal SoundFusion devices. I then installed the drivers downloaded from the forum. The TB software checks couldn’t find the Santa Cruz installed. I tried updating the driver for the Crystal SoundFusion audio device by picking the Santa Cruz driver manually form the list. I thought this had worked as notifications popped up reporting that windows had found the new Santa Cruz devices… ….then it crashed to a blue screen, which reported the TBSC driver as the cause. I tried the traditional uninstall/reinstall but got the same results. As the PC was running SP3 with the usual rat nest of old software I assumed something was upsetting windows (as usual). Time for a more drastic approach…
Plan B
I installed both the AIW and SC and tried a clean install of XP SP2 onto a different hard drive. Installed the drivers for both, plus
Huffyuv and LS VDub. Nothing else. The good news is that the AIW is capturing AVIs in VDub. The bad news is that the Santa Cruz behaved in exactly the same way as before.
I now have a nice working capture rig for silent movies! I am out of ideas, so any suggestions will be gratefully received.