Installed new ati drivers, display properties error message

[J]

Installed catalyst available from ati's web page documenting radeon 7000.

The computer has a new radeon 7000 pci card and an onboard ?Sis? video card.
We needed to use it with a tv, which is why the radeon 7000 was installed.
I upgraded the drivers because there were only 2 useable resolutions for the
tv (DVI) out. Now, installed drivers, and I'm able to run it at a nice 720?
vertical HDTV compatible resolution.

Before drivers: Entering Display properties showed 3 'monitors' available
to windows xp. Two are labeled radeon 7000 - one specifying dell monitor,
other specifying plug and play monitor (DVI), the third had a different
label.. don't remember what that was.

Now, Every time i enter display properties, windows complains that no driver
was found and that the card is running in vga mode. I assume that it's
talking about the mobo onboard video, since it's no longer showing up in the
picture. I now only have the two radeon 7000 screens available. OBviously,
the radeon is working fine because all the colors are there and all the
resolutions are there. Any idea why the onboard video driver dissappeared?

-JB

 

[Ian]

Installed catalyst available from ati's web page documenting radeon 7000.

The computer has a new radeon 7000 pci card and an onboard ?Sis? video
card.
We needed to use it with a tv, which is why the radeon 7000 was
installed.
I upgraded the drivers because there were only 2 useable resolutions for
the
tv (DVI) out. Now, installed drivers, and I'm able to run it at a nice
720?
vertical HDTV compatible resolution.

Before drivers: Entering Display properties showed 3 'monitors'
available
to windows xp. Two are labeled radeon 7000 - one specifying dell
monitor,
other specifying plug and play monitor (DVI), the third had a different
label.. don't remember what that was.

Now, Every time i enter display properties, windows complains that no
driver
was found and that the card is running in vga mode. I assume that it's
talking about the mobo onboard video, since it's no longer showing up in
the
picture. I now only have the two radeon 7000 screens available.
OBviously,
the radeon is working fine because all the colors are there and all the
resolutions are there. Any idea why the onboard video driver
dissappeared?

-JB

Well unless you are bent on using it, I would disable the mobo video and
if your bios allows it, set the PCI card as the primary device. Why did
it disappear? No idea! It might be that something needed to be connected
to it when you upgraded the ATI drivers.

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