Cannot install ATI drivers or Catalyst Control Center

[Pete Russell]

On a fresh vista ultimate install I cannot get CCC to install. I run the
installer downloaded from the ati.amd.com site and select a custom install
to see what is going to install. The only option is the north bridge driver.
I install the NB driver and everything goes through fine except it does not
install CCC or the new driver.

Is anyone else with the ATI radeon 200m graphics having this problem?

 

[Pete Russell]

Have you tried upgrading to the recent 7.4 release? That was when I started
having trouble.

I had CCC running in the past until I went to upgrade to 7.4 from 7.3, The
method I used to upgrade was I uninstalled what I thought was all ATI
related items with the catalyst install manager, Rebooted, and to my
amazement the ATI external event utility was still installed so was the
catalyst install manager.

I then tried installing the 7.4 package downloaded from ATI website but the
only thing that wants to install is a North Bridge Filter Driver. I
installed that and went through the install routine and everything seems to
complete fine. I restart my system and look for CCC but it was not installed
neither was the graphics driver upgraded.

All that was before i decided to backup and do a clean wipe of the drive and
reinstall, Now on a clean system I try to run the catalyst installer again
thinking there should not be any problem. Not so lucky. I run the installer
with the custom option so I can choose what to install and again the only
option is the North Bridge Filter Driver. So I install that and reboot the
system, Still no CCC and Device Manager still shows the original driver that
installs with vista on this chipset.

The funny part is that when I go to run the installer again it wants to
reinstall that north bridge filter driver. Does not matter how many times I
run it, It still wants to install that driver.

So I go off searching on google and find some info about visual c+++ being
left behind. So I go remove the visual c++ package and then go to install
the driver but get the following error.

Failed to find any installable components.

I click ok and the installer quits.

Before the clean reinstall of vista I went into the registry and cleaned out
all refrences to CCC and Ati and deleted all related files and folders.

This is quite strange and It is bugging me. My laptop is usable but I am
stuck with the default drivers which where not all that great when released.

Any Ideas?



I then tried
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Wooden" <[email protected]>
To: "Pete Russell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot install ATI drivers or Catalyst Control Center

 

[Pete Russell]

Update

This problem has been solved, It appears Gateway may have made a deal with
AMD that the drivers and software can only be updated through the
manufacturers site. The drivers would install before the 7.4 update just
fine.

I used the method and software explained on this page. Incase someone else
runs into this problem, Worked perfect.
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/

 

[dean-dean]

I would try installing Version 7.3, found here:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/integratedprevious-vista32.html

Even though your product is listed as supported in the Release Notes for
7.4, I'm wondering if this is an error on ATI's part. It's happened before.
The installer behavior you describe is typical when trying to install an ATI
driver for hardware that is not supported. In my case, using the Find a
Driver function on ATI's site, I was taken to Version 7.3, which I
downloaded, but it wouldn't install the driver, no matter what choices I
made in the installer wizard. Find a Driver continued to find the wrong
driver, until, about a week-and-a-half later, it showed me this page:

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26978

For my hardware, ATI had corrected its error. As it stands, I'm using
Version 7.2, which installs, and works fine. It seems ATI, as with its XP
driver support, is not wanting to support Vista laptops either...