Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[sygnus21]

on a cold boot, the fanspeed cranks to about 50-60% for a split second as CCC initialises then settles down to normal :huh:

Yeah, I view that as normal. It's been that way for me since my 3870 days. Re-boot fan cranks up then settles down.

But I have noticed that the cards BIOS powerplay states tends to 'battle' with the drivers quite often. (ie card ignores the driver settings, driver reasserts the settings etc)

Hmmm....Perhaps that's what happened to me yesterday. It was strange to have the fan mysteriously crank to 50% and stay, especially since I never enabled or messed with Overdrive (prior to the issue).

It's that's what happened, it was the first time i've seen it. At any rate things are back to normal now, I hope

 

[Night Hawk]

What you could be seeing which didn't quite come up correct since we both are card with 1gb of onboard memory is the fact that some cards have to work harder then others with any initial load. Something is telling the fan to work a bit harder there as you were saying when starting up and remaining cranked.

Mine stays right up into the high 30s percentage wise due to a need due to the layout of the board seeing the second Crossfire slot mixed inbetween the pci slots which are now used with the nic card up close to the card itself. Unfortunately that doesn't leave much room for air flow as you can see here.

 

[Seven Eleven]

two fans on my HAWK are constantly rotating at ~35%. even under load.

and everything is cool.

 

[Night Hawk]

With one expansion card removed the fan speed dropped 2% from 39% to 37% but steady showing it is being maintained by the controller on the card itself. You expect to see this when any card is left instock not having been unlocked at any time.

 

[Proex]

Issue with 10.4 Cat

Hi, I'm having some problem with the new driver installation. Maybe it's just me since it looks like it's working very fine with everyone else.

I 1st tried to install it the normal way, and it wouldn't update my driver ( stuck at 8.632.0).

Then I tried the way with Driver Sweeper, restart in safe mode run Driver Sweeper, reboot in normal mode and install.
But it also failed, even worse now I'm stuck in 800*600 view and I don't see the ATi icon in the system tray like it used to ( but this is because the 1st time I uninstalled old cat, instead of only uninstalling only the manager I uninstalled everything )

I have windows 7 familial edition and ATi Radeon HD 4200 Integrated.

 

[sygnus21]

Hi Proex,

Sorry but I'm not fully following what you're saying. I gather you tried to update your drivers and got an error, then did an uninstall, and are now stuck at 800 x 600? You also don't see the ATI icon as well.

Sounds like you need to try the install again. Make sure you choose to install the Catalyst Control Panel as well.

Let me know.

 

[Proex]

Thank you for trying to help me.

1st, what I did was install the cat 10.4 full package but it wouldn't update my driver, so i decided to roll back and do it again, it also didn't worked. So I decided to uninstall Cat but instead of uninstalling only the manager I uninstalled all the ATi Technologies on my computer.
So this is why I think I don't have the icon in the system tray anymore.

I did a restore on my computer to get rid of the 800*600 view, but I'm still stuck at driver version 8.632. I'm starting to think that, as win7 says, it IS up to date.

 

[sygnus21]

but instead of uninstalling only the manager I uninstalled all the ATi Technologies on my computer.
So this is why I think I don't have the icon in the system tray anymore.

What you did was uninstall everything. Just do reinstall the Cat 10.4 drivers and everything should be back to normal.

We can't help until you try and reinstall the drivers.

Good luck.

 

[Night Hawk]

Hello Proex Welcome to the Se7en Forums!

Are you running a crt or lcd monitor? Even with a small lcd Windows by default generally brings thing upto the native screen resolution or down one notch on a standard display to 1280x1024 or down to 1024x768 on the small 14-17" models by default. Lcds start off at 1024x768 for the old 14-15" models. It sounds a bit odd only seeing 800x600 unless a crt is in use.

 

[Proex]

Hi,
I'm using a Lcd screen.
And I did try to reinstall the cat 10.4 couple of times.
Also what I did was roll back my 8.632 driver version, then it brought me back to 800*600, then I would try to install cat 10.4 but it wouldn't change anything and the only way to update was with the windows device manager that would auto update to the 8.632 wich isn't the latest version.
The Cat 10.4 doesn't update my driver at all.

 

[sygnus21]

Is this a laptop or desktop computer? If it's a laptop, you'll need to go to the manufacturer and get the video card drivers. If it's a PC, you should be able to go here - Graphics Drivers & Software, find the drivers you need and update.

It would also help you, as well as us if you gave us a little more info??? What version of Windows 7 32 or 64-bit? What video card do you have? 4200 says 4000 series. Which card in the 4000 series range? Example 4850?

Thanks

 

[Proex]

It's a Hp laptop so I'll go check on the Hp website.
Windows 7 64-bit.
Device manager says I have a : AMD M880G with ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4200.

Thanks.

 

[Night Hawk]

Released 4/28/2010 for Mobility HD Radeon from the 2400s straight through the 5800s. ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

 

[Proex]

So, I did went on the Hp website to update all my drivers and it updated my graphic card to 8.635. So I guess I have to update it with Hp and not with AMD.

Thanks.

 

[sygnus21]

So I guess I have to update it with Hp and not with AMD.

Yeah, notebooks/laptops are a different breed of driver requirements.

Happy to hear you got it resolved.

Later.

 

[Night Hawk]

I guess HP is now starting to get touchy on things like Dell has been even with driver updates. You have to go back to them for their ATI or NVidia drivers rather then the chip manufacturer's own support site.

For expansion cards of custom desktops I simply go through AMD there or at the NVidia site and simply allow the installer to uninstall the old to be replaced by the newer.

 

[Airbot]

May 26, 2010

10.5 out now.

Display Driver - 8.732


Graphics Drivers & Software

release_notes.pdf

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron. First post updated.

 

[streetwolf]

Seems that the 10.5 drivers screw up PowerPlay when you overclock. When you o/c you will see that your minimum core speed is 400 (on my 5870) and your memory speed is always the maximum even in 2D. Of course your GPU temps will go up even when idling in 2D.

Only if you do not overclock will you get the normal PowerPlay speeds. Playing around with Profiles doesn't help either.

 

[sygnus21]

Seems that the 10.5 drivers screw up PowerPlay when you overclock.

Hmmm.... I wonder what ATI would say about that complaint