Ati Radeon 9600Tx

Hi,



I've got a Medion Pc with an 9600 TX videocard on it. With Xp, no problems.

Now I bougt a Vista Ultimate 32-Bits edition. I tried to reinstall a driver from the site from medion (x86) and tried to download one from the Ati-site (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers.html). I always get an error message from the Catalyst Center that there is not any compatible hardware...

Vista also shows that there are problems with it...

Can somebody help me?



Tnx a lot!

 

Was the error message "Failed to find any installable components" ?



Can't get any info out of the Medio site without a serial number, so I have to ask you, how much video memory do you have on the card? the 9600XT comes in 256MB and 512MB models. If you have the 256B model, I'm surprised that Vista even installed. But then, it could also be that the ATI Vista drivers require 512MB of memory, don't know.

 

OK, I stand corrected. That memory size was for the Diamond version of the card. According to ATI, their version of the card is only 128MB -- which makes me even MORE surprised that Vista installed with it.



What version of Vista are you running?

 

vista ultimate 32 bit, the pc is from the aldi

i look the serial up for ya

 

found it; 11124030030993

 

Sorry to say this, but you are probably out of luck.



If you got the error message I posted, that means that the ATI software, when checking to see what kind of video card you have installed, gets the wrong information back and believes that you don't have an ATI card. The fixes I have seen for this indicate that BIOS upgrades are required.



Since I can't access the PC provider's site, you will need to check if there is a BIOS update. If no such update is available, the only other thing you could try is downloading just the video driver and attempting to install it -- without installing CCC. That might work.

 

CCC starts up everytime with windows... right?

so everytime I start windows i got an error message that there is no ati hardware found.

 

They used to make two versions of the driver package, one with a control panel, a second version with the catalyst panel. Now, it appears that they only provide one control panel -- the catalyst one. But they do provide the option of downloading and installing only the display driver.



Are you able to uninstall CCC? If so, do that, install the generic ms drivers, reboot, download the Driver only, and then install only the ATI driver.

 

As WAW8 mentioned, uninstall everything - device manager right click display adapter and choose uninstall and when prompted uninstall software component too.

Then download latest catalyst driver, and durung install deselct the option to install catalyst control centre (so that only the check box next to Display Driver is ticked). This will just install the driver and no more error messages will appear.

 

Tnx, gonna try that!