Warning AGP ati card problems

[r2l]

anyone here using an ATI card? Like a Sapphire radeon 3850 HD 512mb 256bit AGP with success?
the people a sapphire told me to try x64 drivers, but i was annoyed to the point of wiping and installing good old XP Pro sp2.
Thanks, I want to get windows 7 back up and running ASAP. Pz Late

 

[Night Hawk]

Welcome aboard the Se7enforums! The answer to that one is basic! Simply download the latest 9.5 catalyst for 7 from the ATI.AMD support site's download page for Radeon model cards. Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM

Once there you simply click the ATI Radeon cards link from the list and select Windows 7 64bit from the next page for the latest 9.5 version.

 

[torrentg]

Yeah, I'm running HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI AGP and it's great. The normal Catalyst drivers will not normally install without editing the .inf, for AGP. Instead, you should download and use the Vista Hotfix driver for use on Windows 7, available in both x86 and x64.

Catalyst AGP Hotfix - Radeon HD 3000 and Radeon HD 2000 Series AGP products

 

[Night Hawk]

You'll want the hotfix for the 64bit Vista not XP seen there to see if that will get things running for you.

 

[r2l]

cool thanks finally some help about my issue. but i think i am gunna wait a while for more builds to come out before i spend more endless hours on this.

 

[r2l]

OK I just reinstalled windows 7 after being satisfied with my new card, and now i installed the 9-5_agp-hotfix_vista64_dd_ccc.exe And here is where i am at. And i am fully windows updated. was going to show a picture of that, but its giving me an error. I hope i can get back on windows 7!

 

[Night Hawk]

The Catalyst 9.6 is out at this time inlcuding it's own hot fix with a new look!

 

[r2l]

wow thanks for that, Tried 9.6 hotfix 32,64 9.6 non-hotfix 32, 9.5 64. and i am stuck. Could it be that my mobo needs abit drivers to allow the ati card to work? how could do this though .

 

[screwballl]

this is a common problem, even in XP and Vista... since these cards use a PCIe-to-AGP bridge chip, and each chip is slightly different depending on the manufacturing, there is no guarantee that it will work....
the only suggestion I have is to try the drivers from the manufacturer of the card itself (using Vista drivers) or try the drivers from VisionTek which has (mostly) worked for me...

 

[r2l]

I have tried from sapphires site, but the 32 and 64. trying the VisionTek stuff after i reinstall AGAIN! .ALSO when the installation is complete, the computer doesn't ask me to restart. It would usually ask to restart.

 

[Night Hawk]

The last two updates here being the 9.5 and 9.6 didn't need it! Apparently ATI made some serious improvements on the driver installation part. It's still better to reboot just the same while you now don't have to stop everything just to restart for that.
(That helps when you are first installing 7 and waiting to get other things on!)

 

[r2l]

I wouldn't have known since when i first install windows 7, i had my gefore 6800 gt 256 mb. It worked. so now i am here

anyone else got any more ideas before i reinstall?

 

[Night Hawk]

I have an old case sitting here now that has to see everything cleaned off once I get to it with an old, old AGP card in it. I'll be in good shape just finding any 32bit Vista updates to see that one with 7 running!

 

[r2l]

Using the Visiontek drivers, thanks screwballl, can't wait for some 9.6 cataylst drivers, since i am currently running on 8.6. Lets hope guru3d has got some cool new drivers. thanks for the support. also if anyone else knows a place that has 9.6 drivers please POST POST!

 

[Night Hawk]

You mentioned not having the board drivers on earlier? A look at the Intel support site since Abit seems to be down for some reason shows not too much but still some Vista 32/64bit items like bios, onboard audio, chipset???! Download Software, Drivers and Utilities Filters

 

[r2l]

LOL i am having stability issues with the drivers out there right now . 8.6 visiontek worked, but they are so OLD. so now i am on sapphire 8.9 hotfix time to try 8.8 and see if i can be stable.

 

[Night Hawk]

The guru3d site now sees the 9.6 there as well as at the second ATI download site. Ironically they look like the exact same thing you would see going for the latest catalyst version at ATI Catalyst™ Display Driver 7 Beta - 64-Bit Edition

 

[r2l]

tried these and failed, and yea guru3d does seem the same AND my card is AGP pimpin, so regular drivers don't work. weird right, I KNOW! And i have tried 9.6 32/64 bit - 9.3 32/64 bit and they ALL didn't work. These are drivers from the ATI site AND Sapphires web site as well. I bet if i had a AMD CPU i wouldn't be having this problem

If any knows how i could reinstall my chipset drivers i bet that might have something to do with it.

 

[spliff]

I dl'ed and installed 9.6 but the driver is showing 9.5 in the device manager. I tried manual install by selecting the folder for 9.6 to have the device manager upgrade it but it says I already have the latest version driver. Not really worried about it as it's running fine. Just a bit odd.

 

[r2l]

That's great for you and your PCI-E video card.