ATI Radeon drivers install, but fail to initialize

thanks alot torrentg. i'm glad it's working:)

Fuchser said:

thanks alot torrentg. i'm glad it's working:)

You're welcome, same here.

I'm yet another person with a problem. I have an AGP HD4670 with an ID of 9495. I've attached a screen dump. I also have Win7 Ultimate 64bit (the Evaluation version).

I downloaded the 9.11 drivers which, of course, have different file names.

I added the following line to file CH_91527.inf
"ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP new" = ati2mtag_R7X, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9495
and installed it according to the instructions on the front page. However, it still failed with an error
Windows has stopped this device because it is reporting problems. (Code 43).

I read your previous advice about code 43 and updating the chipset drivers, so I downloaded them from nf123xp stuff - . It didn't make any difference.

I set the serial, parallel etc to inactive in the BIOS

I also read your previous advice that the nForce3 chipset on my GA-K8NS Ultra 939 would not be able to support hardware acceleration. That's odd, because it worked OK with my AGP nVidia 6600GT. The problems have only happened since I installed the HD4670. In fact, when the HD4670 is installed, the Device Manager shows a yellow triangle for the System Devices / High Definition Audio Controller with a message Code 12 - cannot find enough free resources. It does not show the triangle (or even the device) when the 6600GT is re-installed.

Is it a problem that I used the 9.11 drivers rather than the 9.10? Did I edit the correct file (CH_91527.inf)?

I really would like to use the HD5670 if possible. Do you have any suggestions, or should I just revert to XP?

Regards

James from Canberra

Thanks for the effort you're putting into this torrentg. The Internet needs more people like you.

JamesFromCanbra said:

I also read your previous advice that the nForce3 chipset on my GA-K8NS Ultra 939 would not be able to support hardware acceleration. That's odd, because it worked OK with my AGP nVidia 6600GT. The problems have only happened since I installed the HD4670. In fact, when the HD4670 is installed, the Device Manager shows a yellow triangle for the System Devices / High Definition Audio Controller with a message Code 12 - cannot find enough free resources. It does not show the triangle (or even the device) when the 6600GT is re-installed.

You're welcome.

That's because 6600GT is an nVidia card on the not-so-working-well nVidia chipset.

See here for most info.

Now take this with a grain of salt because I do not know if it's true - Users have claimed that if they install Windows and then load a proper video driver before ever allowing the machine online or to Windows Update, it will work. If you try this, use a Vista WDDM 1.0 driver for video, instead. Use the hotfix from ATI.

It sounds like I'm chasing shadows, and have very little chance of success. There are much more experienced people than me who have looked at this, and if they don't have a reliable answer, I have Buckleys of finding one myself.

I'm going back to the comfortable world of XP, with its clunky drivers and cruddy interface. But at least it works with the nForce3 chipset and AGP!

I can't add much knowledge to the pool, but I did find one link that might be interesting to people who are thinking of using the F8 route (which I tried, but it made no difference). This ASRock link says the F8 only works for nVidia cards, not ATI, for this motherboard. If that happens on more motherboards, it might explain why it made no difference to me. Well, that and the lack of underlying drivers :)

Good luck to everyone else trying to get theirs working, and I really appreciate torrentg's help, time and advice.

Just a point of intrest for those with ATI sortware. After talkig with ATI, any of there drivers posted on their site is only for ATI cards, they do not support or will install on Laptops with video on the motherboard. I have a Gateway with a 2600HD Radeon card on the Motherboard. The only way to get the catalyst to install with no problem is to install the ATI software that came with you're computer prior to ungrading to Windows 7, In my case was Windows Vista.

That's just their "official stance." They're not going to tell you how to modify drivers.

I just bought a Radeon HD 4650 from HIS and seem to be having the same problems. I upgraded from an Nvidia Geforce 6200 that worked well. I download the hotfix from ATI but that did nothing. Any help would be great!!

Hello, I recently bought a new game called ' Cities in Motion ' but I can not play it, i think it's becuase my ATI RADEON X850 XT is not up to date, Is there anyway you can bring the spec's of my PC up with paying alot? And if so could some body tell me.
Thank you .

Chris.