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16 Jan 2010   #1

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Windows 7 resolution problem on an older system

I have an HP Pavilion a1357c it is about 4-5 yrs old. My monitor is an Acer x203h I believe it is a 22" lcd flat screen. The highest resolution I can go up to is 1024x768. Everything looks big. Is their anyway this could be fixed? If not I may have to go back to XP. Any help would be appreciated.

This is the desktop I have
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...32/loc:0&cc=us



I believe this is the product specs.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...831232&lang=en
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01 Mar 2010   #2

windows 7 ultimate 64bit (7600 build)
havant
 
 

go on the internet and search ATI Radeon Xpress 200 driver download

this should definetly work


i dont know why but this happens on almost all windows 7 installs
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01 Mar 2010   #3

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Utah
 
 

The xpress series are unfortunatly only supported by the vendor, so if HP decideds it's not worth their time to release Windows 7 drivers for that card, then you're SOL.
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01 Mar 2010   #4

Win7 Pro 32-bit, Win7 Home 32-bit
 
 

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by dj199780 View Post
go on the internet and search ATI Radeon Xpress 200 driver download

this should definetly work
Most probably, these will NOT work!

Quote:
i dont know why but this happens on almost all windows 7 installs
Because ... ATI dropped support for these cards last May.

All that is available now are "legacy" drivers -- which are NOT the ones found by Googling. Those drivers are the current ones and will NOT work this this card.
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01 Mar 2010   #5

Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) SP1 RTM
Glasgow, UK
 
 

ATI Catalyst Legacy Display Driver - Click me

The xpress series is supported in this Legacy Cat driver Vista/Windows 7 x86/x64.
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01 Mar 2010   #6

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Utah
 
 

Might as well try them, though the Xpress 200 is not listed as one of the cards it works for, because it's a vendor only type card.
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01 Mar 2010   #7

Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit / XP Home sp3
Gulf Coast Texas
 
 

You could also try the 9.12 hotfix driver GPU42ATICatalyst9.12Hotfix Couldn't hurt. but it sounds like Zen00 Knows what he's talking about. Here's all I could find on the xpress 200 chipset from ATI/AMD. Don't know if it will be of any help.http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pa...ords=&items=20. If your device manager doesn't list your LCD as the X203 H you can try installing the driver from here http://support.acer.com/drivers_download.aspx Best wishes. Fabe

Last edited by thefabe; 01 Mar 2010 at 05:09 PM..
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01 Mar 2010   #8

Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) SP1 RTM
Glasgow, UK
 
 

lefabe - he's got a desktop & 9.12 don't include any legacy cards device id's

the Legacy Cat's have all the xpress series device id's.
including
"ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series" = ati2mtag_RC410, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5A61
"ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series " = ati2mtag_RS400, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5A41
"ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series " = ati2mtag_RS480, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5954

It will install as a WDDM driver.
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01 Mar 2010   #9

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Utah
 
 

I was looking at the list of supported drivers on the site, but if you say so.
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