Catalyst drivers failed to install on Radeon 4670 AGP
Hi, and thank you for this very interesting topic.
I have just bought an Powercolor HD 4670 and tried to install on a WIN 7 32bits 'vintage' KR7A-raid & Athlon 2200+ PC. This system was before running fine on Win7 with a 3dfx V5500 with custom 3D drivers , but I would test an upgrade for new games and videos.
Psu is a Corsair VX 550 watts. I could install the Win7 VGA generic driver, but even the 'detector' ATI update, the AGP 9.11.32 catalyst, and the AGP hotfix for Win7 failed to install ATI AGP drivers at the same place just after the Win7 colour logo screen. No message, just freeze and loop.
Each time I had to reboot on safe mode, and return to generic VGA driver. I have read your topic, look at the procedure and download your new .inf file CL_91526.
But as I only find a line "Radeon 4650 AGP", I am not sure It works for my 4670 AGP.
As no one post for Radeon 4670 AGP, I would like to know if you could help to fix this problem too.
Sorry for my poor english.
Update :
Here is a screen for my hardware.
An other for catalyst interface installed
Update : I am now thinking that it's possible that the previous drivers did'nt uninstall completely and a fresh install of Win 7 (home 32) is necessary.
Previous drivers installed were Sfft 1.5 for a 3Dfx V5500 Agp. These drivers are considered as 'beta drivers' for Win7, so I think some 3dfx files could remain in the system and cause the Ati/amd drivers installation to fail. I will try a fresh install in a couple of days.
At first, I though that my motherboard was too old to support the Radeon HD4670 Agp, but as my Agp slot is an 'universal agp' and the AGP radeon is a 'bridged card', it must be a 'Universal 1.5 volts Agp 3.0' compatible with my motherboard Agp features. In bios I have select the 4x option and check it is activated with the Powerstrip. This software well recognize my Card as an Ati graphic card at 4x.
As the 4670 Agp runs well as an 'generic VGA', I hope that hardware is compatible, runs at 1,5 volts and will not cause hardware failure, 'burning' the motherboard or the Gpu.
After, I though that maybe the Psu don't give sufficient power with the extra 'molex' power connector. The GPU runs at 66 mhz with the 'generic VGA' drivers but have to run at 700 mhz with the Ati HD4670 Agp driver. I though maybe a lack of power cause the Win7 failure when the Ati drivers where loaded. I'm not sure. My Psu is a corsair Vx 550 Watts and must be sufficient.
The HD4670 Agp needs 50 watts, for this reason I have reserved one of the 2 'molex cables' for the Gpu and let free the 4 others connectors on this 'molex cable'. HDD, fans and so on are all connected to the second 'molex' cable to balance the power consumption on the two 'molex cables'.
If it can help, here is the rapport from Powerstrip.
Diagnostic report - generated on 16/12/2009
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PowerStrip build - 645
Windows build - v.6.1.7600.2
DirectX build - v.6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
OpenGL renderer - (n/a)
System board
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CPU speed - 1803 MHz
Type - VIA VT8366A-8233-6A6LVA1AC-CX
BIOS - Award Bios, 11/18/2002
AGP aperture - 128 MB
Transfer mechanism - Désactivé (desktop sharing?)
Non-local memory - (n/a)
AGP driving value - 99h (N-ctrl=9, P-ctrl=9)
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Fast write protocol - (n/a)
AGP texturing - hardware support, but currently disabled
Graphics card #1
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Identity - ATI Display controller
Memory clock - 1819,42 MHz
Engine clock - 1819,42 MHz
IRQ - 11, not shared
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Display driver - vga.dll, v.6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
DirectX driver - vga.dll, v.6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Attached monitor - Moniteur Plug-and-Play générique (Microsoft)
Monitor caps (1) - 640x480, 51kHz, 100Hz
Monitor caps (2) - 640x480, 64kHz, 120Hz
Monitor caps (3) - 800x600, 64kHz, 100Hz
Device enumeration
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VIA CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (30991106h)
VIA PCI-to-PCI bridge (B0991106h)
Accton Ethernet controller (813910ECh) - using IRQ10
VIA PCI-to-ISA bridge (30741106h)
ATI Display controller (94951002h) - using IRQ11
ATI Multimedia device (AA381002h) - using IRQ10