Getting Driver for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

[Maattt]

Okay ive been searching the internet (and this forum ) for a driver for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

I know its an old card.. but its still decent.
ATI have put it under the Legacy support list? but if i try and install that.. Windows 7 wants to tell me that the Microsoft Corporation WDDM Driver is better and wont let me install it.

is there a work around this?
And is it possible to get Aero Support with this Graphics card?

Any help will be really appreciated, ive tried searching this forum with no luck.

Thanks,
maattt

 

[Sassa]

Here is driver: ATI Drivers

 

[Maattt]

Here is driver: ATI Drivers

thanks.. but when i try to install it says the Windows one is better..
but i cant get aero.. and it has the warning sign next to the Graphics card in Device Manager?

EDIT: and i also get an Error on the driver in device manager

 

[Sassa]

You can't overwrite windows drivers?

 

[Maattt]

You can't overwrite windows drivers?

how?

when i select Update Driver..it just says that the windows one is better.

and this is the error i get on the Driver:

 

[multibot]

hi matt,


u can do one thing........

just search out d internet for d driver u need n download its updated version mannually(ur graphics card must support it). then change d compatebility mode of d setup file n then try to install.

plz reply if it works.....

 

[Sassa]

Downlad driver from ATI site and run exe...

 

[Maattt]

hi matt,


u can do one thing........

just search out d internet for d driver u need n download its updated version mannually(ur graphics card must support it). then change d compatebility mode of d setup file n then try to install.

plz reply if it works.....

The setup installer saves the files to C:/ATI/support/

i then load the drivers from there?

but when i try to do this manually.. the 9800 Pro is not listed in the .inf file..

 

[Sassa]

The setup installer saves the files to C:/ATI/support/

i then load the drivers from there?

but when i try to do this manually.. the 9800 Pro is not listed in the .inf file..

Do you have setup.exe in that C:/ATI folder

 

[Maattt]

Do you have setup.exe in that C:/ATI folder

yeah ive ran that and the install manager thing comes up and.. on the log it says:


Error messages Driver Install: the driver package does not specify a hardware identifier

this is the 9.3 Catalyst straight from the ATI site where it says the 9800 series is supported.

Any Suggestions? and Thanks for everyones support so far.. appreciated.

 

[Sassa]

What version of win 7 you have, 32bit or 64 bit?

 

[Maattt]

What version of win 7 you have, 32bit or 64 bit?

32-bit

 

[Sassa]

And you downloaded Catalyst Software Suite (89.8 MB) for 32bit windows...

 

[multibot]

i told u not to upgrade ur driver, i just told u to download d drivers mannually by searching in google n then install offline n also change d compatability mode to d suitable one.

 

[Mark Phelps]

The legacy drivers, Catalyst v9.3, should work fine with your card -- but they are Vista drivers, not Windows 7 drivers. There are no ATI-supplied Windows 7 drivers for your card.

I have a similar situation with my card (x1600) and was able to get the drivers installed by choosing compatibility mode of "Vista".

 

[Maattt]

i told u not to upgrade ur driver, i just told u to download d drivers mannually by searching in google n then install offline n also change d compatability mode to d suitable one.

Yeah i cant do this when im getting an error from the catalyst tho..

this is after removing the original driver.

"Driver Install: the driver package does not specify a hardware identifier"

edit: ive found a different catalyst version.. so im trying that.. all looks good so far

edit: Okay.. catalyst installed without error.. system rebooted but has now reverted back to the Microsoft ones.. so im just confused.

 

[Maattt]

The legacy drivers, Catalyst v9.3, should work fine with your card -- but they are Vista drivers, not Windows 7 drivers. There are no ATI-supplied Windows 7 drivers for your card.

I have a similar situation with my card (x1600) and was able to get the drivers installed by choosing compatibility mode of "Vista".

Ive just tried this with Vista Compatibility mode..

system rebooted.. and now are back to the original drivers.. so im confused.

 

[bash]

I've had better luck with the Catalyst 9.1 drivers. They can be found archived on the ATI site.

 

[Maattt]

I've had better luck with the Catalyst 9.1 drivers. They can be found archived on the ATI site.

okay il give that a go.. thanks alot

 

[Zosche]

Hey Guys,

had the problem and finally found the solution. It´s not a matter of WDM or Vendor-specific drivers, as one might think in the first place. With some older mainboards, especially those with AGP-bus and SIS or VIA chipsets, Win7 doesn´t install the necessary bus drivers.
Make sure, you get the right chipset-driver for your mainboard (open the case, have a look inside).

In my case, I needed the SIS-AGP chipset-driver. Just google for "SIS AGP chipset win7" and you´ll find a small driver (about 3 megs) hidden in a file like "agp121.zip".

Once installed, Win7 started with its native WDM1.1 driver in 1920x1080 !!!! : ))))
No need for "newer" drivers, though, the CCC would make sense....

I might have tried the same way before with an AMD Radeon 2600PRO AGP. That one would have worked as well, I´m sure....