problem ATI AIW 9700 Pro on W7

[Flexmens]

Hi,

Hi, I have a P4PB400 mainboard and ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro. I installed W7, and only get VGA PnP driver for Video. I tried many Catalyst installations, back to v7.1, but none of them really install the driver and CCC. The driver install program does not give any error message, but it just does not install the driver and CCC.

I have searched for 2 days on Internet, tried several other ways, but still no luck. I do not seem to get drivers to work in W7.

Please, any help is appreciated
Thanks!

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi,

Hi, I have a P4PB400 mainboard and ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro. I installed W7, and only get VGA PnP driver for Video. I tried many Catalyst installations, back to v7.1, but none of them really install the driver and CCC. The driver install program does not give any error message, but it just does not install the driver and CCC.

I have searched for 2 days on Internet, tried several other ways, but still no luck. I do not seem to get drivers to work in W7.

Please, any help is appreciated
Thanks!

you 64biit or 32?

Ken J

 

[torrentg]

I have searched for 2 days on Internet, tried several other ways, but still no luck. I do not seem to get drivers to work in W7.
!

Download the Vista driver for it from ATI's site. Extract it to C:\ATI

Then install using the device manager. Right click standard vga. Update driver software. Browse. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now go inside C:\ATI and find the .inf (inside driver display folder or something.)

Double click on it and hit ok.

Do the same for the tv part of the card in sound section of device manager. I think it's the inf inside the WDDM folder you want for this. Let me know if you need further help....I used to have an AIW card (9800 Pro) and know them well.

 

[Flexmens]

Hi,
Back from travel. Thanks for feedback. I see 2 files: CL_83742.inf and CW_83742.inf
Which one to take? By the way, if I try to update VGA driver, it does not work so far. Windows keeps on saying "latest driver is installed", even if I browse for the *.inf files.
Thanks for your advice on how to proceed
Flex

 

[torrentg]

You want to use the CL one and point specifically to it, instead of just choosing the folder.

Follow this part precisely:

"Then install using the device manager. Right click standard vga. Update driver software. Browse. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now go inside C:\ATI and find the .inf (inside driver display folder or something.)

Double click on it and hit ok."

 

[Flexmens]

Hi,

Thanks. I did, when I selected the INF file, I had to choose the Card, so I choose "ATI All in Wonder", which there were 2 of, so I selected the first one. It installed it, and then I rebooted, unfortunately, the Computer crashed during set-up (some memory dumped, etc..), so I restored it to VGA.

May be I need an older version of INF file ?

 

[Flexmens]

Funny, when I start Windows in "Safe mode", I can see the 9700 Pro driver (under display), but when i start Windows properly, it disappears...

 

[torrentg]

Try installing in safe mode. Then boot to normal.

 

[Flexmens]

If you mean running the latest Catalyst install under Safe mode, no, that failed.

Could someone help me to create the right INF file for this AIW 9700 Pro card?

 

[torrentg]

No, I mean install as I said before, only in safe mode.

The CL one is the right one.

Which motherboard? If it's an nForce3 or lower, that's not going to work on Windows 7.

If it's not, you want to try to update the chipset to latest possible, like from VIA. Especially the CPU to AGP bridge driver, under system devices in device manager.

 

[torrentg]

Here. I made a new post so it's less confusing.

Install this in Vista compatibility mode.

Pay special attention to the device manager in system devices. Make sure it updates the CPU to AGP bridge controller. If it doesn't, use the device manager to manually update just that one.

Here's how to do that if needed: Right click on it. Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Then double click on the correct .inf. Click ok. Click next and then it will install.

Then, if successfull, install the video driver in the exact way I previously outlined.

 

[Flexmens]

Hi, it failed, I get code 43 after rebooting in normal mode. Problem is that I did not see the right Card (AIW 9700 Pro), so I have chosen Radeon 9700 Pro, but may be that is the problem.

My motherboard is P4PB 400, it has the latest BOIS (from 2003).

The VIA bridge, etc.., driver is from 2006, and seems to be the latest.

Seems I am running out of options...

 

[torrentg]

Yeah. Unfortunately, that error code 43 means the CPU to AGP is not working correctly.

The only thing that could help is to update the bios. After doing that, disbale all unused ports in the bios like parallel, serial and floppy etc...

I that still doesn't help, you have to try to get the most up to date driver you can for CPU to AGP.

But it's true that it doesn't look very good from here.

 

[azureskies]

I'm trying to make a second media computer with my Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard and AMD 3000+ 64-bit cpu along with a 9700 Pro AIW.

When I install the ATI legacy driver package, 9.11, I get a crazy problem. After install it is fine. I can view 3d content and access CCC fine. However after restarting the computer, when Win 7 starts to load the display goes crazy and full of colors. Nothing is discernible.

i don't see drivers anywhere for the via k8t800pro chipset as it seems win7 takes care of it.

Maybe I need to test the cad on an xp machine to make sure it still works.
any help is appreciated.

 

[sygnus21]

That's a nice card and all, I had (still have) one, though not in use. At any rate it sounds like the card may be on it's last legs. Especially if it's artifacting (crazy colors). If you do try it on an XP machine and it does the same thing, it's gone. Time to replace. I saw this with my ATI X800Pro. I had it since 2004 and finally replaced it about 6 months ago as it finally gave out.

The other thing you could do is check the power connector on the card. Could be some loose solder points.

Good luck.