🚀 go-pugleaf

I think I'm just going to give up the notion of ever getting a video
capture card to work with my Dell XPS 400.

After six months of battling with Iomega and their clueless tech support
"why don't you get a friend who knows about the registry to pop
around.."), I decided to bite the bullet and rip the thing out and grab
a Matrox Marvel G200 card. After all, all those reviewers can't be
wrong, can they?

Unfortunately, they can. Very wrong. I've just spent the best part of a
day reinstalling, rebooting and restraining my frustration as the card
refuses to install properly.

Every time it starts to run through the driver install procedure (off
the CD originally), it reboots and then announces that it can't find any
drivers and starts the procedure all over again. And again. And again.

I've been on the phone for hours to their tech staff, tried new drivers,
old drivers, drunk drivers, I've dabbled in the BIOS, updated the BIOS,
rummaged in the registry and still it's the same story: the basic video
drivers seem to install but not the Matrox Power Desk. It thinks the
drivers are disabled or the machine's in safe mode, or that it's the
wrong card in the machine.

I'm none to chuffed. Anyone got any ideas before I start contemplating
the aerodynamics of the card?

Mike 
-- 
                http://www.urban75.com/  UK webzine