ATI 9800 and Vista

[Amatuer]

I have an ATI 9800 AIW Card that I am trying to make work just as a video card
in Vista. I have installed the latest drivers every time that ATI publishes a
new one but Vista never recognizes the card. Is there a secret to getting the
card detected by Vista?

TIA

Doug

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Doug.

Secret? I didn't need no steenkin' secret!

All through the Vista beta, I ran an ATI AIW 9600 in my former AGP mobo.
While I never got the TV part to work in either WinXP x64, Vista x86 or
Vista x64, the basic video card worked well in all of them (and 32-bit WinXP
Pro, of course). I don't recall about the earliest betas, but by at least a
year ago, I did not need any drivers at all directly from ATI. Just plug in
the board, install Vista, and it worked, in both 32-bit and 64-bit. All the
drivers I needed were on the Vista DVD and installed automatically.

In December, I rebuilt my rig with an EPoX AM2-slot board that had PCI-e and
no AGP slot, so I had to retire the AIW and get an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro
PCI-e. Again, Vista had built-in drivers for both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions.

The 9800 is not a 9600, of course, but I would be very surprised if you need
any special drivers for that card in Vista unless you want more than the
basic video functions. I'm neither gamer nor videophile, so your needs may
not be the same as mine.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Buffalo]

I have an ATI 9800 AIW Card that I am trying to make work just as a video card
in Vista. I have installed the latest drivers every time that ATI publishes a
new one but Vista never recognizes the card. Is there a secret to getting the
card detected by Vista?

TIA

Doug

Does you system have a built-in graphics adapter in the MB?
If so, you might have to go into the BIOS to disable it before you can get
Vista to recognize your 9800 card.
You may also have to uninstall the drivers for that built-in graphics card.