Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: MAJOR Hauppauge problem! Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:17:38 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <6hsv4f$b013@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.2.132.37 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Erk! No sooner do I finally get my Hauppauge 406's settings all fine and dandy than the &*$%ing thing goes belly-up on me! OK, here's a rough description of the problem: The picture in the WinTV window (or, if in full-screen TV mode, the whole picture) has suddenly become unbelievably bright. It's as if somebody had set the brightness waaaay up as the default setting. I can reduce the brightness, sure, but I have to get it down to about 0 to make out what is on the screen, and no amount of fiddling about with the colour or contrast can prevent the picture looking, well, shite. It is "absolutely not acceptable", as my teachers at school used to say (not infrequently)... The rest of my monitor's picture is fine - the rest of Windows is OK and my 3DFX games are fine, too. I get the same effect whether I connect to the card via the S-Video or phono socket, and using it as a TV. It's completely useless! I haven't installed anything since I last used the card and it was fine then. Oh, except for the PC Forsaken demo which came on one of those natty mini-size CDs (£1.99 in EB - v. nice!) and I refuse to believe that was responsible coz I've had DirectX 5 installed for months now. 2 days ago, everything worked fine(ish). If you look at the thread below, you'll see I had some flicker in the picture - do you think it's likely I got a dodgy card, thus the early flickering problems and now this indicate I should get down to the shop and exchange it pronto? Has anyone had this problem and got any advice? When people say they "couldn't get the card to work" do they mean it just wouldn't work at all, or they had picture distortion/ washout big-time like me? Nick "apologetic and sick of asking for help" F PS Before anyone says, I *have* mailed Hauppauge but they haven't been much use previously, claiming the 406 never supported NTSC etc ------------------------------------ nickf@saqnet.co.uk http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf/index.html http://www.n64gazetta.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 ICQ #: 9464742 "...the Master of Unlocking..."