Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 AGP + Win7 x64 = Code 43

sirdan said:

WTF, from when the hotfix for win7 exists?

The AGP hotfix has been around for quite some time now. I would imagine the Win7 driver was added during the beta days.

Rage3D has a sticky thread here - Catalyst AGP Hotfix thread - Rage3D Discussion Area

mushroomboy said:

Legacy said:

Code43 means your motherboard is too old. Probably an nForce3 or below.

What you can do is try to update your chipset/motherboard drivers to latest. Update the bios to latest. Then, disable all unused ports in the bios like floppy, serial, parallel, com etc...

Code 43 has no relations to the motherboard being too old. =(

Explanation of error codes generated by Device Manager in Windows XP Professional

Code:

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


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One  of the drivers controlling the device notified the operating system  that the device failed in some manner. 

If you have already run  the Troubleshooting Wizard, you might want to check the hardware  documentation for more information about diagnosing the problem.

Right from the MS site. It's a driver issue, though since code 43 just means the driver was shut down because it failed somehow you'll have to troubleshoot on your own because MS is to vague. =(

You and the Syngus are wrong about this. Error 43 means that the graphics card is not communicating with the motherboard correctly. To remedy, a chipset and/or bios update is necessary, depending on the board and drivers loaded. This is why nForce3 or below gets error 43 in Vista and 7. Please see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NForce3

Geo64 said:

You and the Syngus are wrong about this. Error 43 means that the graphics card is not communicating with the motherboard correctly. To remedy, a chipset and/or bios update is necessary, depending on the board and drivers loaded. This is why nForce3 or below gets error 43 in Vista and 7.

Please show me where I mentioned anything about the error 43 code? (other then my reply to you)

I would suggest you read what's posted before calling out people, including the links they provide

And since you put me in the mix...

From Microsoft...

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

Recommended resolution

One of the drivers controlling the device notified the operating system that the device failed in some manner.

If you have already run the Troubleshooting Wizard, you might want to check the hardware documentation for more information about diagnosing the problem.

How is what mushroomboy "quoted" wrong???

Thank you.

sygnus21 said:

Sorry that my post scares you that it might actually work and fix the OP's problem.

Here.

Geo64 said:

sygnus21 said:

Sorry that my post scares you that it might actually work and fix the OP's problem.

Here.

Learn how to read!!!

sygnus21 said:

Legacy said:

Right ya. To rid of the error 43, he'll have to follow my previous advice beforehand though. And if he want's latest AGP WDDM 1.1 drivers for video, he can see TorrentG's thread at the sticky links of this section.

We're not playing mines is bigger than yours are we???

Sorry that my post scares you that it might actually work and fix the OP's problem.

We're all here to help

P.S, If you looked at the link, those are the Windows 7 drivers from ATI/AMD

Again, please show me where I mentioned anything about Error 43!!! prior to my reply to you!!!


In case you missed it. This was the post Legacy responded to....

sygnus21 said:

Hi Lexicon,

If you have an AGP card, you'll need to use these drivers Catalyst AGP Hotfix - Radeon HD 4000 Radeon HD 3000 and Radeon HD 2000 Series AGP products

If you go to this page Global Provider of Innovative Graphics, Processors and Media Solutions | AMD and put in your info, under "Product Model" you'll need to choose "Radeon HD 3000 Series AGP" if your card is APG. It will then take you to the link I provided above. These drivers are for AGP cards.

Good luck

Thank you

Hi all,

I was out of town so could not reply to all of you. First of all thanks to everyone who took the time to help me out. I have fixed the problem but before I explain it, let me address some of the posts here. Regarding the AGP hotfix driver, I have been using that right from the beginning so I knew that was not the issue. Regarding the small disagreements with the posters here, all of you are in a way correct: the motherboard was not communicating to the card properly and it could be because of the drivers. Since that was suggested earlier, I decided to look into it and realized that my chipset was ULi M1689. My board is Gigabyte, but ASrock released a patch for their 939 board (ftp://download.asrock.com/drivers/UL..._AGP_Patch.zip) which carried the same chipset for graphics issues with vista. Lo behold, it worked!

All that is required is that after clean install of Win7, run the patch and the install the CCC with the driver. That's it!

I hope this is useful to someone else. This forum has been great and thanks to you guys for all your time.

Thanks,
Lex

Lexicon said:

Hi all,

I was out of town so could not reply to all of you. First of all thanks to everyone who took the time to help me out. I have fixed the problem but before I explain it, let me address some of the posts here. Regarding the AGP hotfix driver, I have been using that right from the beginning so I knew that was not the issue. Regarding the small disagreements with the posters here, all of you are in a way correct: the motherboard was not communicating to the card properly and it could be because of the drivers. Since that was suggested earlier, I decided to look into it and realized that my chipset was ULi M1689. My board is Gigabyte, but ASrock released a patch for their 939 board (ftp://download.asrock.com/drivers/UL..._AGP_Patch.zip) which carried the same chipset for graphics issues with vista. Lo behold, it worked!

All that is required is that after clean install of Win7, run the patch and the install the CCC with the driver. That's it!

I hope this is useful to someone else. This forum has been great and thanks to you guys for all your time.

Thanks,
Lex

Hi Lexicon,

THANK YOU!! This solved my problem too (my mb is a Asrock 939A8X-M). Now my 3850 runs perfect on Windows 7, thank you all so much!!!