Windows 7 - ATI 9250 PCI video card problem

trafsta · 07-17-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by dstyro

trafsta,
which monitor driver is being used?
is it still in generic monitor?
try updating monitor drivers if you have.

2 x Generic PnP Monitor

I downloaded the 1905FP Dell monitor driver and installed it to one of them (the one that auto-detected that the drivers were a match) and then rebooted, but nothing changed and the same problems still exist

**dstyro** · 07-17-2009

if u have a screen picture grabber then can u show me all the modes supported by the graphic card.
it will be there in advanced settings of display settings

**dstyro** · 07-17-2009

if u have a screen picture grabber then can u show me all the modes supported by the graphic card.

it will be there in advanced settings of display settings

**regli** · 07-17-2009

I'd recommend that you go to:

Microsoft Update Catalog

and search for:

ATI mobility RADEON 9700

Download the Windows 7 driver listed first and tell us if it works.

trafsta · 07-17-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by dstyro

if u have a screen picture grabber then can u show me all the modes supported by the graphic card.

it will be there in advanced settings of display settings

The only mode shown there with the drivers you supplied me with earlier is "640 by 480, 16 Colors, Default Refresh"

trafsta · 07-17-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by regli

I'd recommend that you go to:

Microsoft Update Catalog

and search for:

ATI mobility RADEON 9700

Download the Windows 7 driver listed first and tell us if it works.

Same result as when I allow Windows 7 to download a driver from Microsoft Update. Yellow ! in device manager, 1024x768 is the res that it boots into windows with.

I should note that I can see a 'hidden' "Other Device --> Unknown device" that I cannot seem to identify. I am not sure what this might be.

I am leaving work now and will not be back until Wed July 22nd so I will continue to test and troubleshoot [hopefully with your help

] upon my return! Thanks again!

**regli** · 07-17-2009

Have a good time.

As an alternative, I'd then try the Vista WDDM driver from 8/25/2006. Make sure that you install it as an administrator with compatibility set to Vista.

trafsta · 07-23-2009

I've had no luck getting WDDM (Aero) drivers working. What does work, in XDDM mode, are these drivers from the Microsoft Update Catalog:

ATI Technologies, Inc - Video - ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700, (Windows 2000,Windows XP), 8/9/2005, v8.163.0.0

With it the monitors are detected properly and I can change resolutions correctly. I am not sure why I cannot get WDDM Aero drivers working though... anyone have any more ideas? I've tried half a dozen different Vista and Windows 7 drivers from the MS Update Catalog and elsewhere without success (same result every time as mentioned earlier, cannot change to 1280x1024, yellow exclamation mark on adapter in device manager, etc).

tia

**Icetech** · 07-26-2009

Regli!! i wanna have your manbabies! i was bummer that i couldn't use 7 on my old HP zv5000, i love this old laptop, its a workhorse... and that driver works perfect! thankyou!

Quote: Originally Posted by regli

This should work for you! Note that I am crossposting.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Driver Disappeared From Windows Update

Here is my experience that might help some lost souls out there who hit on this forum because they are searching for x86/32bit legacy ATI drivers for Windows 7.

I decided to install Windows 7 RC on some legacy hardware. One a Pentium 4 2.4 using an ABit SR7-8X board with 512MB and an ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. The other based on an Athlon XP 1600+ on an ASUS A7A266 board with 1.25GB using an ATI Radeon 9250.

As most found out, the Windows 7 install, if via a Vista upgrade or a fresh install will simply ignore the Radeon and install a standard VGA driver that is very slow and limited to 1280*1024 max resolution.

I then decided to install the latest XP ATI Catalyst drivers from AMD (6.11). Though the Catalyst is not supported, the driver install worked without a hitch. I could now set my resolution to 1920*1200 and everything looked fine. The next problem arose when I tried to shut down or reboot. Every single time ATI2dvag crashed just about at the end of the shutdown process with a BSOD. Twice it resulted in a corrupted registry, once unrecoverable necessitating a reinstall.

Back to search for a better solution. I then installed Vista and discovered that Microsoft installed a newer XDDM driver (6.14) as part of the XP upgrade. In Vista, this driver didn't crash the system under any circumstances I tried. As I couldn't find this driver on the net anywhere, I decided to extract it.

It is posted here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/231461174/Vista_ATI_Radeon_XDDM_6.14.10.6606.zip

Download it and you can now install this driver via the device manager/browse my computer for driver software/let me pick from a list. You might need to turn off "show compatible hardware" and then look for the extracted ".inf" file in the display directory.

Once installed, everything works fine for me on both machines. I get a 1.9 score for both cards on the Aero performance scale but a 1.0 for gaming graphics. My guess is that it doesn't even test the gaming score as it reports in the detailed performance information no dedicated graphics memory despite the fact that both of these cards have it.

I didn't test any games but ran DVD quality videos from the hard disk using Kmplayer and Media Player. Though Kmplayer clearly performed better, both of them did a good job. A few artifacts were visible in fast moving scenes but otherwise it was very watchable in 1920 * 1200 full screen mode.

This ******** demonstrates that Windows 7 works very nicely and MUCH better than Vista with legacy hardware, in fact with very old hardware. It also points out that systems with onboard chips or graphics cards based on the 7 series, 8 series or 9 series ATI Radeons are not a lost cause for Windows 7.

**osmosis** · 01-08-2010

Awesome detective work by regli and dstyro! I've got my Radeon 9250 w/ 256mb running pretty smoothly now on Windows 7 thanks to you both. One thing that doesn't seem to work like I'd hoped is the S-Video TV-Out on this card. Does it work for either of you two or have you figured out/have any thoughts on a way to get it to work?