Disaster… help!

[Matt]

Well it would appear to be an incompatibilty between Avid and the gigabyte 6600gt card. All working fine now with the FX5200… don’t pretend to really understand, but as far as i can tell some problem happens when Avid gets as far as ‘initializing audio’ of what ever comes after that… i’ll see if i can get in touch with card manufacturers and nVidia to see what they think… cheers for your suggestions.

[Bill Stephan]

Avid needs to overlay “external” video (the source & record monitors) over the desktop/program graphics, so the video display card and the driver must posess this specific capability and be completely compatible with Avid. Otherwise you will have all kinds of weird problems.

This is why it is wise to stick to Avid-tested hardware.

Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City

[Don Logan]

Just out of curiosity….what Nvidia driver were you using with your 6600gt card?

[Matt]

ok, so after many painful hours, no more fingernails and less hair, the situation appears (fingers crossed) to be resolved happily… Turns out to be a driver problem, which looking above is where you were heading me. I’ve installed 67.22 at advise from Avid support forum wise one, and low ‘n behold, we appear to have a working system with my 6600gt card.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Been a steep learning curve, and a good exercise in logic and narrowing down the angles, but like to learn new stuff, so thats ok.

l8r…:)