Windows 7 - ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

hey OzeinaB87,

I think 7 should support XDDM drivers as well. It might help with people who decide to upgrade from XP Pro to Windows 7 . Good luck with your install and hopefully everything works even better :-) keep us posted

My download has finally finished , there werent seeders enough for the torrent...
I tried to upgrade, but it did not accept, saying that it only upgrades from vista to 7... knowing that, did anyone tried upgrading from vista to 7, not to mention that u had installed the 9000 on vista before upgrading?? if no one did, just let me know ASAP... because it will sure take time for me if i want to first install vista and then upgrade, so if someone did and the vga still didnt work properly, plz let us know...

OZ

I have an IBM T42 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 and I just installed the 7022 build. I also installed CoreAVC codecs. I tried to play an mkv file with Windows Media Player 12 and it froze after playing a few seconds.

However, playing with Media Player Classic, all was fine. It seems the problem has been fixed to some degree.

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Video drivers

Systems which use XDDM drivers may completely stop responding in certain scenarios. The computer will not respond to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and you will have to cycle the power to restart the computer, with the attendant risk of loss of unsaved data.
Some activities which have been demonstrated to trigger this issue include, but are not limited to:

• <LI class=unordered>Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.
  
  <LI class=unordered>Changing multi-monitor configurations
  
• DVD or other video playback

To avoid this, do not use XDDM drivers, but find an appropriate WDDM driver instead. If your video chipset does not have a WDDM driver (such as the Intel 915), use a VGA driver or an GPU that supports WDDM drivers.
If this issue occurs at setup, either avoid unattended setup or uninstall the XDDM driver and use a VGA driver until setup is complete."

found on this link:
Release Notes: Important Issues in This Beta Release of Windows 7

okay guys, i think i have some good news. I finally installed the new beta build 7022, and then i installed klite codecs... i then opened a video, it worked fine, however the quality was little rubbish... then i tried to install the ATI XP Driver, it didnt work, but then i tried to run it as XP SP2 compatibility, and tara, it installed perfectly and asked for a restart... after the restart i had to enter the resolution setup to change back the color depth to 32 bit... opened the video again, and problem was solved with the quality... then i run the assessment tool again... worked perfectly (this time to freezing which force u to use the power button to turn off and turn it on again), but it then reported that no assesement can occur due to an error... however, so far so good guys... things will get better and better after some future beta releases...
and if u want the link for the ATI driver i used, let me know...
I hope this helps

OZ

I reported this finding 2-3 posts above. And yes, the WEI score fails. In Vista, I get a blue screen but in Windows 7, it simply tells me due to a software, hardware, or driver issue, the assessment of the score cannot complete after I install the drivers.

mmmm.... but u didnt mention that u installed the ati driver! but what i did is that i installed it and then tried playing videos, because my friend without installing a driver (keeping it as standard) takes away the quality of the videos... and u can see for ur self...

okay guys, little bad news i have here... it is isnt completely perfect here... sometimes, when i open videos it freezes, and i will have to turn it off and on again, but after that, the video works perfectly... dunno y this is happening, but this might be happening only with me... anyhow, waiting for ur updates poeple...

Try VLC player set to OpenGL mode rather than DirectX and see if that doesn't help...

And for everyone else, beware codec packs... maybe they've gotten better, but I've had problems with them in the past. If a specific file won't play, use gspot (yes, that's the name) to analyze the file and see what codec you're missing. Just get what you need. VideoHelp.com - Forum, Guides, Tools and hardware lists is a great site for that type of stuff.

Does anyone have the sleep mode available when using the standard vga driver? I was trying other drivers today but they freeze up shortly after booting. But the sleep mode was available with the other drivers.