ATI Radeon drivers install, but fail to initialize

You are like...the messiah of win7. Awesome.

Thanks so much. A month of agony and figuring out what was wrong...ended in a matter of minutes. You even beat out win7 tech support 'cause they couldn't figure out a resolution. They just had me deactivate the driver and work around the problem. thanks again.

lol glad it's working for ya.

That's mostly skill built up from following others around here and what they've said since the beta testing times.

torrentg,
maybe you know anything about how to solve problem i posted before? ( ATI Radeon drivers install, but fail to initialize )

Im0rtality said:

torrentg,
maybe you know anything about how to solve problem i posted before? ( ATI Radeon drivers install, but fail to initialize )

Check that there are no yellow exclamation points in the device manager. Either way, try to update your chipset drivers from motherboard manufacturer.

Only exclamation point is at PCI standard 1/3 PCI-to-PCI bridge (This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)). problem is, that I couldn't find (Vista/win7)drivers for my MB (ASUS P4R8L, Pundit-R Barebone) except Original CD which is for XP (throws an error during installation, that OS is not supported)

Im0rtality said:

Only exclamation point is at PCI standard 1/3 PCI-to-PCI bridge

There' the problem. You need that working well. Find driver for it or no go.

Update your bios to latest made as well. After, disable all unused ports such as floppy, serial, parallel...etc...

torrentg said:

Im0rtality said:

Only exclamation point is at PCI standard 1/3 PCI-to-PCI bridge

There' the problem. You need that working well. Find driver for it or no go.

Update your bios to latest made as well. After, disable all unused ports such as floppy, serial, parallel...etc...

I'm using latest BIOS version. I also tried to disable various stuff (serial ports, CardBuss, 1394, etc) - no success.
There are 3 PCI-to-PCI bridge devices in win7 and 2 in winXP (dual boot).

I tried to disable one of bridges via Device Manager and 1st one lost its exclamation icon... however, that device was for LAN - i lost connection to internet. Rebooted, but devices restored themselves - 1st not enough resources, LAN ok...

I think I need to free up one PCI slot, but there are only 2, and one is free (other for graphics card)... But I might be wrong here...

Any ideas?

Im0rtality said:

Any ideas?

Yeah. You're going to need some kind of chipset update compared to what's running now. If you can't find one or none available, unfortunately, it's not going to work.

torrentg said:

Yeah. You're going to need some kind of chipset update compared to what's running now. If you can't find one or none available, unfortunately, it's not going to work.

What exactly you mean by chipset?

Thank you torrentg it was really appreciate for your big help and it really rare that you can see people share there experience.