Windows 7 - ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

There are NO Windows 7 drivers for that card. Period. Don't promise things that do not exist.

What you will find, at best, are Vista drivers -- which are also available directly from AMD/ATI -- and need to be installed using compatibility mode.

hi zaks,

btw this driver is for the desktop ati 7500 and not for the mobility version....

I have the exact problem has the Thread starter, anybody found a link that worked? I did use a link it worked then I formatted my pc and the link WONT work PLEASE HELP im getting desperate!

#Fixed.

I have tried using the Catalyst downloads without much success. However, I have found the following to be useful, not just for T42, but for other graphics cards that don't appear in the WIN 7 list.

Actually your information about the 7500 driver is not accurate. You can download the XP driver from lenovo website and run the executable so that it creates a folder on c:\drivers\win\display. Once that is done go into device manager and click on the Standard VGA adapter and update the driver software. When prompted, browse for driver software on your computer and point to the folder on c: drive. It should automatically find your 7500 driver and will allow things like 3d text etc to work in screensavers, and other video settings.

Okay i found on page 5 solution for ati 7500 and works fine with video playback and everything and it is awesome and thanks for that ... but now the question that i haven't got answer yet. Does anybody have got Aero to work in win 7 with ati m radeon 7500 or any other solutions for that .... btw using IBM T42. Thanks a lot if any answers

My wide screen distorts things. How do I use the entire screen but not stretch and distort things so that rectangles look like squares?

You don't. Every screen has a "native" resolution. In the case of the new super-wide screens, this is often 1440x800 (or something like that). A pixel is a given dimension -- set by the resolution. You can't change that.

Your only options are the following:
1) Live with the distortion
2) Change the screen resolution to remove the distortion -- but then live with the lower resolution.

@dano1212:

Well, the first thing I had tried was also installing the latest XP drivers and for a month or so all worked pretty decent. There was some limitations, I guess due to the lack of DirectX 9 support. For example, Flash videos could not be displayed in Fullscreen mode (caused BlueScreen) unless you disable the graphic accelerator (right click on the flash video -> settings). Also, no video playback was possible with the VLC media player (sound only). You have to deactivate Direct3D etc. in order to get it to work (Display Resolution -> Exended Settings -> Troubleshooting).
However, after installing Service Pack 1 there was suddenly BlueScreen over BlueScreen, apparently caused by ati3duag.dll. Eventually, after doing lots of research, I found a solution that worked perfectly for me: The ATI display drivers included with Windows Vista. You can download it over here:

http://www.myupload.dk/showfile/844500f4dd7.zip

Extract the content of the Zip-Archive to a directory of your choice. Then go to System -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager. Right click on your video card, choose "Update driver", then "Search your computer for driver software", then "Choose from list...". Uncheck "compatible devices". At the bottom right is a botton "Have Disk", choose the extracted folder. It will automatically detect and display the video card model "ATI Mobility Radeon 7500". During installation process, Windows will ask you if you want to install altough the driver has no certification. Simply choose "Install anyway".

That's it! Now I can even play 720p HD Youtube videos smoothly. Insane!

Hi Love4all,

I tried these drivers in the past and, although it allowed me to use the intended resolution, I had to disable the graphic accelerator with a consequent increase of the main processor efforts (the fan was allways running at max speed). I think that was the best we all did here in the forum.

Did the SP1 made a difference and allow the card to actually use it's own processor or is it still the same but without the bluescreens? How is the main processor working? Are you using the graphic accelerator? What about the aero theme, does it work? and last but not least: did the windows score change?

I can't actually test it for now since I took my hardisk (toreplace my creative zen disk), and still haven't bought a new one.

I tried using seven for a while on my evo n610c but after the card driver faillure, I end up installing linux. Now that I'm about to install the new drive, I'm considering give it a try again, depending on your advice...

Carlos.