Windows 7 - ATI 9250 PCI video card problem

Well either 7 is to advanced for this little PCI video card or ATI is falling behind.

I just installed 7100 build or the RC (if it really is lol) on my older P4 2.8 with this video card installed and I can not for the life of me figure out a way to get the drivers installed for this card...

Right now the default ones keep my display under 1280 by 1024 that the monitor should be at and the 7 drivers off ATI's site don't work.

Windows is calling it "Video Controller" and I try to update with no luck.

Try 9.1 from here. Worked for me.

Try this information, direct from AMD.

ATI Catalyst Suite Driver Installation Instructions under Windows Vista

I tired that and it was no good.

I will try the next advice in a moment.

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 exercise 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.

regli,

Thanks for your detailed post. Just wanted to let you know that same driver worked for me on my Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP on an old Toshiba laptop.

Much, much appreciated!

Hi. I'm trying to get an ATI 9000 Mobility running under Win 7 as well. I grabbed the driver package noted in the posting you replied to, but my initial attempts are failing -- perhaps because I'm choosing the wrong driver category from the package. Which one did you use that was successful, and how did you install it? Thanks!

How did you get this to install? I tried to go to Device Manager and Update Driver, and manually pointed to the folder where I unzipped the download above, and it still only wants to recognize Standard VGA.

I have the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP in my Toshiba Satellite P35-S6053 laptop.

Would love to get this working under Windows 7 RC.

Thanks!

The following steps should help you install this driver.


Try in device manager to "Update driver software".

Then click "Browse my computer for driver software"

Now click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"

Click off "Show compatible hardware"

Click "Have disk"

Click "Browse" and find in the unzip directory:

\Display\pci_ven_1002&dev_514c\atiixpag.inf

Select it and then click "OK" to install from disk.

At this point by clicking off the "show compatible hardware", you should see XDDM driver entries for the 8500, 8800, 9000, 9100 and 9200 family of cards as well as for Radeon IGP 320 and 340.

Select the appropriate driver and click next to install the driver.

Hopefully this resolves your issues.


p.s. Obviously this procedure will ONLY work for the 32bit/x86 version of Windows 7. Anybody with these cards is out of luck if they want to install the x64 version.

Hey, This is AWESOME!

Got my card working under Windows 7 with 1440 x 900!!!

That's perfect.

Just placed my order for Windows 7 Home Premium when it's released later next year.

Got an E-Mail from MS. Wasn't going to order until I got this working!

Thanks!