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Is it possible to get a Radeon 9250 card to work in W7?

I've searched. There are no "official" drivers for W7.

One of my small business clients has five pc's with this card, and he'd like to come up to W7.
 

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You could try these:

http://www.dmmdownload.com/downloads/CURRENT/GRAPHICS/S9250_Series_Win7_32_Ver_6_2.zip

I doubt that any real Windows 7 drivers for the 9250 cards exist, but the cards may work under Windows 7 with XP drivers. (No Aero Glass effects.)

If your client wants the full Win7 experience, the 9250s would have to be replaced with newer cards. If the PCs use AGP or PCI graphics, there are still low-end cards available that support 7. Unfortunately, they're rather more expensive than PCI-Express cards. (PCI and PCI-E are entirely different, and physically incompatible.)
 

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I doubt that any real Windows 7 drivers for the 9250 cards exist

There isn't. In fact that download you linked to is nothing more than the last XP driver for it, just renamed to include Windows 7 in the file name.

but the cards may work under Windows 7 with XP drivers. (No Aero Glass effects.)

They do as long as if they are AGP cards, either the default Windows AGP driver or the last XP driver cooperate and allow the driver to install.
 

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I will try these driver files Wednesday or Thursday night on a test pc at his office.
Will report back after that.
 

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Not sure what thet're up to at that download site, but every single driver they have listed as being for the 9250 and windows 7 is bull. For starters there is zero support for any card made before the HD 2xxx series in them, so they will not install. Also it is kind of hard for anywhere to have a Windows 7 driver for that card when ATI/AMD never made one.

pscowboy as said in the link posted by Lemur and by bobkn and myself, the only driver available for that card is the last XP driver (Catalyst 6.11), which you can get directly from AMD,

Catalyst
 

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Worked on it last night, and got this card to work. Showed it off this morning.

The download I used was:
vista_ati_radeon_xddm_614106606.zip

It's the driver only; 2.68mb; extracts to 6.0mb; there is no setup.exe; there is an inf.

Go into Device Manager - Update Driver - and direct D/M to the pci_ven subfolder.
After it installs, reboot - and voila! In parentheses next to RADEON 9250 is (Microsoft Corporation-XDDM); driver version is 6.14.10.6606; driver date is 8/15/2006.

Full screen, stable, no BSOD's on shutdown. Stuttery on YouTube which suits the boss just fine. Runs all his apps. Able to surf the net okay (again, no videos). In his office environment, it's good enough.

On my Google search, I came across some Vistaheads that found this (or modded it) and got it to run successfully. Type it in to the search bar; I believe it was the first listing that had it - **************. The 4shared site claimed that M/S made them remove it.
 
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Yay!! This worked for me too! I was upgrading my mother's old PC and she had a 9250 card. This driver saved the day!


Worked on it last night, and got this card to work. Showed it off this morning.

The download I used was:
vista_ati_radeon_xddm_614106606.zip

It's the driver only; 2.68gig; extracts to 6.0gig; there is no setup.exe; there is an inf.

Go into Device Manager - Update Driver - and direct D/M to the pci_ven subfolder.
After it installs, reboot - and voila! In parentheses next to RADEON 9250 is (Microsoft Corporation-XDDM); driver version is 6.14.10.6606; driver date is 8/15/2006.

Full screen, stable, no BSOD's on shutdown. Stuttery on YouTube which suits the boss just fine. Runs all his apps. Able to surf the net okay (again, no videos). In his office environment, it's good enough.

On my Google search, I came across some Vistaheads that found this (or modded it) and got it to run successfully. Type it in to the search bar; I believe it was the first listing that had it - **************. The 4shared site claimed that M/S made them remove it.
 

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Yay!! This worked for me too! I was upgrading my mother's old PC and she had a 9250 card. This driver saved the day!

Just so you know, if you plan on updating that PC to Win8 in the future, those drivers will NOT work. MS removed support for XDDM drivers from Win8.
 

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Worked on it last night, and got this card to work. Showed it off this morning.

The download I used was:
vista_ati_radeon_xddm_614106606.zip

It's the driver only; 2.68gig; extracts to 6.0gig; there is no setup.exe; there is an inf.

Go into Device Manager - Update Driver - and direct D/M to the pci_ven subfolder.
After it installs, reboot - and voila! In parentheses next to RADEON 9250 is (Microsoft Corporation-XDDM); driver version is 6.14.10.6606; driver date is 8/15/2006.

Full screen, stable, no BSOD's on shutdown. Stuttery on YouTube which suits the boss just fine. Runs all his apps. Able to surf the net okay (again, no videos). In his office environment, it's good enough.

On my Google search, I came across some Vistaheads that found this (or modded it) and got it to run successfully. Type it in to the search bar; I believe it was the first listing that had it - **************. The 4shared site claimed that M/S made them remove it.



can you please post the link of the driver here bcause i srsly cant find it and i need it badly! please please
 

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Why can't you follow directions?

I typed the file into my browser, and found it in three locations. I'm not going to do your work.

Get the file, extract it, and follow directions. It works!
 

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