No Aero Support on ATI mobility radeon 9800

[jaredgood]

Holy **** I got it to work!!! I had to install one of the modded drivers first then check windows update and it gave me an updated driver that enables aero support!!! Thank you guys so much for all of your help!!!

 

[torrentg]

lol I guess that's one way to do it.

Very glad for you. Enjoy your Win7 experience.

 

[Maattt]

Should this work with the desktop version too?

Im trying this with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (however Win 7 detects it as XT)

 

[torrentg]

Should this work with the desktop version too?

Im trying this with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (however Win 7 detects it as XT)

Extract to C:\ by running .exe, close after extraction.

Install by using device manager. Right click video card. Update driver software. Browse. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now find the .inf and click on it inside the navigation pane. Hit ok.

ATI Catalyst? Legacy Display Driver

Run setup.exe after to get CCC.

 

[Maattt]

Should this work with the desktop version too?

Im trying this with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (however Win 7 detects it as XT)

Extract to C:\ by running .exe, close after extraction.

Install by using device manager. Right click video card. Update driver software. Browse. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now find the .inf and click on it inside the navigation pane. Hit ok.

ATI Catalyst? Legacy Display Driver

Run setup.exe after to get CCC.

I'm getting the same problem as the other guy,
my card isnt showing up in the list.. only ATI Radeon HD models seem to show up.

Ive tried Installing one of them cards but i get

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)

any help, would be appreciated

 

[torrentg]

Which motherboard?

 

[Maattt]

Which motherboard?

ASUS A7N8X (Deluxe)

 

[torrentg]

Sorry.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Anything nForce3 or below is impossible to work in 7 or Vista. Must use XP.

 

[Maattt]

Sorry.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Anything nForce3 or below is impossible to work in 7 or Vista. Must use XP.

Oh right, damn.

Time to upgrade then haha

thanks for your help

Win 7 is running fine, just no aero effects :/

 

[Sparatan117]

I wouldn't worry about it much. Microsoft is still working out the kinks, just give it some time.

 

[torrentg]

Has nothing to do with Microsoft or kinks to be worked out. Time is no cure in this instance.

 

[Maattt]

Sorry.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Anything nForce3 or below is impossible to work in 7 or Vista. Must use XP.

I GOT IT TOO WORK ON THE NFORCE2
just to let any of you know..

I wiped windows 7 off..
Installed XP.. installed the Unified Driver for my motherboard instead of just the standard one included with xp and got everything running fine.

made a new partition and installed windows 7.. got full Graphics card support including Aero

and for some reason it now works

 

[torrentg]

Sorry.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Anything nForce3 or below is impossible to work in 7 or Vista. Must use XP.

I GOT IT TOO WORK ON THE NFORCE2
just to let any of you know..

I wiped windows 7 off..
Installed XP.. installed the Unified Driver for my motherboard instead of just the standard one included with xp and got everything running fine.

made a new partition and installed windows 7.. got full Graphics card support including Aero

and for some reason it now works

Awesome! Can you show us a screenshot?

Edit - (something tells me this is never going to happen.)

 

[Maattt]

Sorry.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Anything nForce3 or below is impossible to work in 7 or Vista. Must use XP.

I GOT IT TOO WORK ON THE NFORCE2
just to let any of you know..

I wiped windows 7 off..
Installed XP.. installed the Unified Driver for my motherboard instead of just the standard one included with xp and got everything running fine.

made a new partition and installed windows 7.. got full Graphics card support including Aero

and for some reason it now works

Awesome! Can you show us a screenshot?

Edit - (something tells me this is never going to happen.)

here you go.. sorry i had to go out

 

[torrentg]

Hey, if this is for real, then congats.

Did you install some kind of MCP update driver or something made by a 3rd party or end user?

In case I have to tell others, how exactly did you get this to work?

 

[Maattt]

Hey, if this is for real, then congats.

Did you install some kind of MCP update driver or something made by a 3rd party or end user?

In case I have to tell others, how exactly did you get this to work?

i dont know really mate, i didnt do anything.

i decided i wanted to install XP so i can run games, cause they wouldnt run on 7 with the graphics card driver not working.
so I install XP on another partition, one of the drivers with XP wernt working correctly so i downloaded the Unified driver for xp and then everything was fine.
i then tried to dual boot both..
windows 7 BCD registry was corrupt apparently (using VistaBootPro)

I then deleted the Windows 7 partition and reinstalled it after installing XP.. let it do the setup and the aero was working straight away..
so either it got them from update or i dont know..

 

[jaredgood]

Ya, this is how I got mine to work. Do a fresh Install of Windows 7. Then install any drivers necassary to "connect to the Internet ONLY." Then immediatley the first thing you do, open windows update. Windows Update will provide you with an updated driver that supports Aero.

It will not work if you install a driver for your graphics card first and then check Windows Update. It will recognize your driver as good and not provide you with the updated Aero supported driver. Then I would goto the Microsoft Windows Update Cateloge and download and save that driver to and external HDD or USB Stick so the next time you need it or do a clean install of your OS just use that driver.

 

[fishnbanjo]

I have a DELL XPS Gen 1 laptop with an ATI 9700 128 Mb mobility card and W7 Pro 32 and AERO worked right off the bat when W7 installed.

 

[torrentg]

I have a DELL XPS Gen 1 laptop with an ATI 9700 128 Mb mobility card and W7 Pro 32 and AERO worked right off the bat when W7 installed.

The million dollar question here is - were you disconnected from network access when installing Windows?

 

[fishnbanjo]

I have a DELL XPS Gen 1 laptop with an ATI 9700 128 Mb mobility card and W7 Pro 32 and AERO worked right off the bat when W7 installed.

The million dollar question here is - were you disconnected from network access when installing Windows?

Yes, and no. I did a fresh installation because I had XP Pro SP 3 loaded so an update was not in the offing and I did a clean install. I also have wireless which is WPA-2 protected so I did not have immediate access until I put the encryption data in the connection field but did once Windows launched for final installation. The whole process took 35 minutes and then 10 minutes for MS Updates which included new drivers for the ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 with 128 Mb RAM.

p.s. As you would surmise this is my laptop and not the PC in my system specs.