Help - ATI Radeon 200M not detected

[qwert123]

My ATI Radeon 200M is not getting detected in windows 7

Wat bout it..

7 is only detecting Generic PnP monitor...

 

[Dwarf]

Hi qwert123 and welcome to Se7en Forums

I think that you are getting a bit confused. Your ATI Radeon is your graphics card, and W7 (and other versions of Windows) will only detect your monitor as Generic PnP if you haven't installed the driver specific to your monitor. This is what I see in Device Manager (note that I have NVidia and that I have installed the monitor driver):

What does this show on your system?

 

[Damocrian]

Hi,

I'm also experiencing the same problem.

I've just installed Win7 32bit on a different partition of my hard drive. For your information I have a dell Inspiron 6400 Dual Core 1.73Gh, with 1,5 Gb Ram and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 256mb. The device manager does not detect the card on the mobo. On the display adapter it says STANDARD VGA ADAPTER and NOT Ati X1400.
I tried to disable the VGA adapter but it still does recognize the ATI GPU.
On my other partition running XP Pro, everything is running smoothly.

I would be grateful for a tip on how to solve this.

Thanks people!

 

[Crunchy Doodle]

I just did this yesterday using the Dell Vista driver for the X1400. It was not on a Dell machine, but I used the Dell driver. You have to force Windows to install the right driver. Go into Device Manager, or through Advanced Setting in the display setting applet to get to the display adapter driver. Press Update Driver and choose that you want to select the driver yourself. It will show only the VGA as compatible. Uncheck the box that says Show Compatible Only and you will then be able to navigate to the X1400 driver. If I remember, there was two identical entries. I chose the first one. Ignore the warning that this driver is not compatible, and press some OKs. After rebooting, you'll have the right driver. Mine gave a decent WEI for graphics and gaming - more than enough to run Aero and play HDTV smoothly.

Bye.

Hi,

I'm also experiencing the same problem.

I've just installed Win7 32bit on a different partition of my hard drive. For your information I have a dell Inspiron 6400 Dual Core 1.73Gh, with 1,5 Gb Ram and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 256mb. The device manager does not detect the card on the mobo. On the display adapter it says STANDARD VGA ADAPTER and NOT Ati X1400.
I tried to disable the VGA adapter but it still does recognize the ATI GPU.
On my other partition running XP Pro, everything is running smoothly.

I would be grateful for a tip on how to solve this.

Thanks people!

 

[Damocrian]

Alright!!! Thanks!! It worked perfectly as you said!! Now I can fully enjoy windows 7!

BIG UP!

 

[sticketystick]

Similar problem

Hi,

I've got the exact same issue as Damocrian, however I have the Radeon Xpress 200m graphics chipset which for some reason isn't in the manual install list of ATI drivers, so can't even install it manually. Any ideas???

Thanks!

 

[Damocrian]

Hi Sticketystick,

What are your computer specs? AMD 64 or 32 bit?

If I understand your problem you can't find the right driver right?

Try googling it on other sites than ATI, I'll do the same but i just need your specs.

 

[sticketystick]

Solved

Sorted it finally thanks for the offer of help though. cheers

 

[em27]

A thing to keep in mind is that from 9.3 up, legacy support was removed so older products won't be supported anymore.

Last legacy supported driver is Catalyst 9.2. But there's also the ini hacks... which I won't go into detail.

Also to answer qwert123's "7 is only detecting Generic PnP monitor..." issue... sometimes, the monitor detection doesn't work properly. The 780G that I have did that once in a while... right click on the PnP entry and Scan for new hardware might do the trick. If it's not, it might be actual hardware failure.

 

[timber]

I just did this yesterday using the Dell Vista driver for the X1400. It was not on a Dell machine, but I used the Dell driver. You have to force Windows to install the right driver. Go into Device Manager, or through Advanced Setting in the display setting applet to get to the display adapter driver. Press Update Driver and choose that you want to select the driver yourself. It will show only the VGA as compatible. Uncheck the box that says Show Compatible Only and you will then be able to navigate to the X1400 driver. If I remember, there was two identical entries. I chose the first one. Ignore the warning that this driver is not compatible, and press some OKs. After rebooting, you'll have the right driver. Mine gave a decent WEI for graphics and gaming - more than enough to run Aero and play HDTV smoothly.

Bye.

Thanks Crunchy. This solved my problem - mostly. My graphics card is no longer defaulting to VGA. I now get 1280 x 800.

But when I run Windows Experience Index I only get a 1.0 on "Gaming Graphics" -- it says "Not Detected". And I only get a 1.9 on "Graphics". Under the details section it says "Total available graphics memory -> Not detected" and also shows 0 MB dedicated graphics memory, 0 MB dedicated system memory, and 0 MB shared system memory.

Now I know my laptop is a bit aged - 5 year old Compaq x1000 with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (I think it has 64 mb dedicated graphics memory). So I expected a somewhat low score but not a 1.0 and did not expect it wouldn't detect any graphics memory.

Any thoughts on why it wouldn't see my graphics memory / why I'm only getting a score of 1.0? Any help is appreciated!

 

[Crunchy Doodle]

A day or so ago I installed RC1 on that machine with an ATI X1400 and Windows Update had the genuine ATI driver again. I don't know if it will include yours, but it might.

Bye.

Thanks Crunchy. This solved my problem - mostly. My graphics card is no longer defaulting to VGA. I now get 1280 x 800.

But when I run Windows Experience Index I only get a 1.0 on "Gaming Graphics" -- it says "Not Detected". And I only get a 1.9 on "Graphics". Under the details section it says "Total available graphics memory -> Not detected" and also shows 0 MB dedicated graphics memory, 0 MB dedicated system memory, and 0 MB shared system memory.

Now I know my laptop is a bit aged - 5 year old Compaq x1000 with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (I think it has 64 mb dedicated graphics memory). So I expected a somewhat low score but not a 1.0 and did not expect it wouldn't detect any graphics memory.

Any thoughts on why it wouldn't see my graphics memory / why I'm only getting a score of 1.0? Any help is appreciated!

 

[timber]

Thanks much - I'll check it out.

 

[m1000]

Thanx 100000000000 Times

I just did this yesterday using the Dell Vista driver for the X1400. It was not on a Dell machine, but I used the Dell driver. You have to force Windows to install the right driver. Go into Device Manager, or through Advanced Setting in the display setting applet to get to the display adapter driver. Press Update Driver and choose that you want to select the driver yourself. It will show only the VGA as compatible. Uncheck the box that says Show Compatible Only and you will then be able to navigate to the X1400 driver. If I remember, there was two identical entries. I chose the first one. Ignore the warning that this driver is not compatible, and press some OKs. After rebooting, you'll have the right driver. Mine gave a decent WEI for graphics and gaming - more than enough to run Aero and play HDTV smoothly.

Bye.

You Are Awesome Man ..You Are Genius

Working 100% With Me on Acer Aspire 5100 (Graphic :Redeon Xpress 200M)

Thanks ..Thanks ..Thanks

i love this Forum so Much

 

[timber]

I never quite got it to work right and then (unrelatedly) my machine died. Oh well. But glad Crunchy was able to help m1000!

 

[Seaman]

I have an 200M too and can't get it work properly since I introduce my MSI S420 notebook to Win 7. I can't update my driver manually nor online, actually there's no display adapter shown in Device Manager!! But there's an item with a yellow exclamation mark at System Devices category, it's title is "PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" as I know Radeon 200M works on PCI so I doubt that this is my display adapter but it has some sort of problem I think. I added a screen shot of Device Manager. I hope you guys help me to find a solution and I won't have to go back to XP.

 

[emerald08]

I have an R51e that has an Intel motherboard and an ATI Radeon Xpress 200m. I've got 7100RC installed on it and let Windows auto-detect the drivers I needed.

I did the system interface, hotkeys, and power management on my own however.

Well. I'm wondering if there is an alternate driver available for my 200m? I know that ATI isn't supporting legacy cards for Windows 7 from what I can see.

Any ideas guys? TIA.

Edit:

My system specs show an R52. I use that for travel and have the R51e sitting on a desk at home. Just adding to not cause any confusion.

 

[pieterblackie]

Hi Guys

I have read all the posts regarding the xpress 200m and how you guys fixed the issues but I do not seem to find a solution for my problems

I have a old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1720 with a Radeon Xpress 200m graphics card It is running Windows 7 Build 7100 that I downloaded from Microsoft

When I look at the Display name it says Generic PnP monitor on Radeon Xpress 200M series

and if I look at the driver it says driver supplied by ATI Tech

OK now my problem is that I only get a 1.0 rating on the windows experiance Index and under the graphics heading it says graphics memory not detected

with the first beta version I did not have this problem

If there is anyone that has a solution please let me know

Thanks

Pieter

 

[pieterblackie]

bump

 

[Mark Phelps]

ATI did recently "update" their legacy drivers from Catalyst 9.3.1 to Catalyst 9.8., however, in looking through that info, I don't see anything older than the Xpress 300. So, their just might not be a driver for the Xpress 200.

And even if there is one, it's likely to be an XP driver which, while you will probably be able to load in in Compatibility mode, is likely to NOT provide AERO support of any kind. So, your WEI scores are not likely to improve much.

I'm running a tablet PC with an Intel 914 chipset, with XP drivers installed, and I get very low WEI scores -- and that's using the latest drivers friom Microsoft Update Catalog.

 

[pieterblackie]

Like I said before that on a previous install I did there was no problem
So I was just wondering if I am doing anything wrong or if someone knows of a shortcut to get past this