Installation

Trying to break stuff

We installed the Radeon All-In-Wonder about 4 times in our test system, not because we needed to, but just to see if we could get the installation program or the board to choke. Hardware reviewers make the best Q/A testers, we don't give up until we toast something, literally.

When installing the All-in-Wonder Radeon as an upgrade, the Hardware Wizard will gracefully find and install the display drivers, and then reboot. After these drivers finished installing, the system then installed the All-In-Wonder specific drivers, all without a hitch. This story held true for both our Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 Professional installations.

With a brand new installation of Windows 2000 Professional, the All-in-Wonder started up in standard VGA mode. The auto-playing install CD installs the drivers for both the Radeon chip and All-In-Wonder features at the same time. Again, we couldn't get the Radeon install to hiccup no matter how much we tried With past ATI products, you had to uninstall the old ATI drivers before installing a new ATI card. The cards shared the same driver file names, but the code was oh so different.

Color correction

D3D Settings

Possible displays

OpenGL

The TV application in the multimedia center does have a small bug. If the application is run without a sound card present in the system, it will crash out in Windows 2000. Simply re-enabling the sound card will bring the application back to life. Nobody would buy a All-in-Wonder Radeon without having a sound card, but if the sound card is ever disabled for compatibility or benchmarking requirements, hours of debugging can be saved by knowing that the TV program needs to have a sound card.