So I had just upgraded my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505) to Windows 7 and was using the Windows Update to get all the drivers for my hardware. All of them worked except the ATI Mobility Radeon x1300, and when i try to download/install it, it just comes up with unknown error code 80200053. Now my computer is stuck with low resolution and using a generic PnP standard VGA Graphics Adapter driver and I can't find a way to get my video card to work :/
Can anyone suggest a way to install the driver?
I tried downloading the driver online, but those versions are not compatible with Windows 7?
Thanks in advance.
Can anyone suggest a way to install the driver?
I tried downloading the driver online, but those versions are not compatible with Windows 7?
Thanks in advance.
Welcome to the Se7enforums! kev
Your main problem will be trying to find 7 drivers for the X1xxx series anything since that series is no longer supported for 7. You will need the Vista equivalent however that should go right on and work without problems since that will support vpu chips prior to the 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx still seeing active support. Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM
Your main problem will be trying to find 7 drivers for the X1xxx series anything since that series is no longer supported for 7. You will need the Vista equivalent however that should go right on and work without problems since that will support vpu chips prior to the 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx still seeing active support. Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM
i got the vista equivalent for the radeonx1300 series video driver update, and it still does not work for me. any ideas?
Welcome to SF! dcmo
For the older Radeon cards a little digging around saw the release notes indicate support for the older cards back as far as the 9500 models with the Catalyst 9.3.1 32bit version available at ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver
For the 64bit Vista/7, ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver
Hopefully that will out for you there since that was latest still offering support for any series prior to the 2000, 3000, 4000 model lines.
For the older Radeon cards a little digging around saw the release notes indicate support for the older cards back as far as the 9500 models with the Catalyst 9.3.1 32bit version available at ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver
For the 64bit Vista/7, ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver
Hopefully that will out for you there since that was latest still offering support for any series prior to the 2000, 3000, 4000 model lines.
ok i have windows XP home sp2 and i have the RADION x1300 card but whenever i try to install it i get the message " setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware of OS" which is bogus because the only reason im reinstalling it is cus i re installed windows yesterday and before i did the radion x1300 drivers WORKED PERFECT
please im missing out on gaming any help?
please im missing out on gaming any help?
Hello killerkris14 Welcome to the Se7en Forums!
The problem you are probably running into there for the older X1xxx series card is that the latest Catalysts and drivers are written for the 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx series of models no longer supporting the older model lines. You will likely have to go to a place like guru3d.com in order to look up older versions they archive and still have available or revert back to the cd that came iwth the card.
That usually doesn't work out and not what you want there!
The problem you are probably running into there for the older X1xxx series card is that the latest Catalysts and drivers are written for the 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx series of models no longer supporting the older model lines. You will likely have to go to a place like guru3d.com in order to look up older versions they archive and still have available or revert back to the cd that came iwth the card.
That usually doesn't work out and not what you want there!
thanks for the warm welcome
do you know by chance what version of the
ATI catalyst that i need for the 1300 series?
oh and sory i realized AFTER i wrote in that these are windows 7 forums lol
do you know by chance what version of the
ATI catalyst that i need for the 1300 series?
oh and sory i realized AFTER i wrote in that these are windows 7 forums lol
well i took a look and i think 6.4 will work so im trying now will post YAY OR NAY
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I believe the latest releases were in the Cat 8.x lineup there before the X1s were dropped. The release notes if seen generally show the model lines that are supported. Those are what to pay close attention in order to see how new you can go for the card there.
any help?
I had to dig through the archives but you can see several for XP available at download from Guru3D.com
The ATI 7.11 is an excellent older one that was about the last one mentioning the X1300 line in the description. That was two updates past the problematic 7.9 cat that came on the card's software/driver disk here. ATI Catalyst 7.11 XP (32-bit) download from Guru3D.com
The ATI 7.11 is an excellent older one that was about the last one mentioning the X1300 line in the description. That was two updates past the problematic 7.9 cat that came on the card's software/driver disk here. ATI Catalyst 7.11 XP (32-bit) download from Guru3D.com
i will try it god i hope it works
ok well nogo i get the same error with every driver i try so ima give my laptop to a good friend he worked at intel for a good number of years he can fix it or has friends who can do it ^^
That was the closest thing they had simply for the X1300s found there. I ran into this one however specifying ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 driver supporting 98 all the way to Vista at ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 - Xp and Vista drivers shareware however! 
Once you have something that gets lost in archives you end up having to keep looking for some 3rd party source. Hopefully this will be more of a help to you there. Another one is seen at http://www.nodevice.com/driver/Mobil.../get34988.html
Once you have something that gets lost in archives you end up having to keep looking for some 3rd party source. Hopefully this will be more of a help to you there. Another one is seen at http://www.nodevice.com/driver/Mobil.../get34988.html
omg i need tech support none of them worked on my puter BUT I KNOW ITS A x1300
If you can ahold of tech support they will likely provide you with a link for an archived update. With the Radeon 5x00s coming out the 2x00s series will also be dropped after so many more newer catalyst versions as well. That's how they prompt you into buying something newer!
Hi killerkris14,
maybe i have a solution for your problem.
I also have a notebook with ATI Mobility X1300 and I installed Win7-64 in the last days. And first there was no posibility to change to 1280x800.
But I found a tool to solve the problem.
I hope it is ok in this forum to post the link, it is ATI MobilityModder - DriverHeaven.net.
And i used "ATI Catalyst 7.11 Vista (64-bit)" from guru3d.com
Good luck,
woger
maybe i have a solution for your problem.
I also have a notebook with ATI Mobility X1300 and I installed Win7-64 in the last days. And first there was no posibility to change to 1280x800.
But I found a tool to solve the problem.
I hope it is ok in this forum to post the link, it is ATI MobilityModder - DriverHeaven.net.
And i used "ATI Catalyst 7.11 Vista (64-bit)" from guru3d.com
Good luck,
woger
I am hoping to be able to upgrade to windows 7 with my dell inspiron e1505 with this stupid ATI Raedon x1300 video card.
I just want to be clear? Were you able to use this modder which modded the video card driver so that it was compatible with Windows 7? Please let me know.
Deckard
I just want to be clear? Were you able to use this modder which modded the video card driver so that it was compatible with Windows 7? Please let me know.
Deckard
Hi Deckard,
yes, I was able to use this modder tool. Without this tool I could only use 800x600 or 1024x768 and the ATI Mobility X1300 was not detected.
Now I used "9-3_vista64_win"-ATI-Driver, modded it and installed it (with some warnings during installation).
But the chip is detected and I can use 1280X800.
Until now I had no time to test other things like videos or games.
woger
yes, I was able to use this modder tool. Without this tool I could only use 800x600 or 1024x768 and the ATI Mobility X1300 was not detected.
Now I used "9-3_vista64_win"-ATI-Driver, modded it and installed it (with some warnings during installation).
But the chip is detected and I can use 1280X800.
Until now I had no time to test other things like videos or games.
woger
Hello nighthawk, kev, killerkris, woger and deckard
I run W7 64-bit on an acer laptop with a x1300 mobility radeon card. I have never managed to make the 3D card work optimally in W7. ( RC7100)
The status was this:
-full resolution
-no video problem (regular avi, mpg video )
-3D acceleration problem, -the acceleration would never work in fullscreen apps, there would be image, but with an ultra-frequent flickering between application-image and just black.
However they work in windowed mode. (As for example quake live)
Reading woger's post I thought I would give the mod-tool from driverheaven a go. The mod and installation of ati drivers worked but I have the same problem. I used the latest catalyst 8.12. drivers
Maybe I should have used some other drivers?
Woger: You mention two different drivers, which did you end up using ?
( maybe I should try the 7.11 nighthawk mentioned)
Have anyone had the same problem?
I am sorry if I am 'imposing' on your thread but this really seem related...
I run W7 64-bit on an acer laptop with a x1300 mobility radeon card. I have never managed to make the 3D card work optimally in W7. ( RC7100)
The status was this:
-full resolution
-no video problem (regular avi, mpg video )
-3D acceleration problem, -the acceleration would never work in fullscreen apps, there would be image, but with an ultra-frequent flickering between application-image and just black.
However they work in windowed mode. (As for example quake live)
Reading woger's post I thought I would give the mod-tool from driverheaven a go. The mod and installation of ati drivers worked but I have the same problem. I used the latest catalyst 8.12. drivers
Maybe I should have used some other drivers?
Woger: You mention two different drivers, which did you end up using ?
( maybe I should try the 7.11 nighthawk mentioned)
Have anyone had the same problem?
I am sorry if I am 'imposing' on your thread but this really seem related...
I have x1250 ATI graphic card, but the drivers for it are identical as for x1200 or x1300 models.
Here is a little tutorial, also at the end of this thread I post step-by step screen instructions how to install new drivers:
Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver
HTH,
Creer
Here is a little tutorial, also at the end of this thread I post step-by step screen instructions how to install new drivers:
Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver
HTH,
Creer
thanks I'll check it out
Hi again
I checked out the site you (Creer) referred to and tested it..
---Before doing this I ran into a problem with the catalyst package making it impossible to install any drivers. (it just got stuck somewhere in the installation no matter which driver version it was. -I have quite a few on the drive now
) ---
I attempted earlier to install the drivers manually, but unsuccessfully. I didn't realize W7 could not distinguish which drivers were x64 or not!
Reading the post helped in that I saw you needed the exact folder to manually install.
The same problem I mentioned earlier with screen flicker in full screen 3d remains though..
I used the catalyst 8.12 this time around. Could there be a difference with the legacy 9.8 drivers?
My experience so far with ATI drivers seem to be they work or they do not.
-Maybe I will try installing the 9.8 too just for the hell of it and to make sure I have tried everything.
thanks anyways!
I checked out the site you (Creer) referred to and tested it..
---Before doing this I ran into a problem with the catalyst package making it impossible to install any drivers. (it just got stuck somewhere in the installation no matter which driver version it was. -I have quite a few on the drive now
) ---I attempted earlier to install the drivers manually, but unsuccessfully. I didn't realize W7 could not distinguish which drivers were x64 or not!
Reading the post helped in that I saw you needed the exact folder to manually install.
The same problem I mentioned earlier with screen flicker in full screen 3d remains though..
I used the catalyst 8.12 this time around. Could there be a difference with the legacy 9.8 drivers?
My experience so far with ATI drivers seem to be they work or they do not.
-Maybe I will try installing the 9.8 too just for the hell of it and to make sure I have tried everything.
thanks anyways!
Hi kokosbolle,
now i have installed the driver "9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu" from Guru3D.com.
But so far I didn't test much programs.
What is screen flicker? Maybe I can install this program and test something?
woger
now i have installed the driver "9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu" from Guru3D.com.
But so far I didn't test much programs.
What is screen flicker? Maybe I can install this program and test something?
woger
Has there been any resolution 
on this issue yet?
could this work? I'll try it if I install 7
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
I bought 7 but I am reluctant to install it yet
The upgrade advisor pointed this out as well
I'll share my two cents on it anyway
When I bought a new hard drive for the same computer by the way
I had a lot of problems and i guess i still do even installing XP again
I have learned to deal with it, but the only resolution that works is the highest one
anything else is a fuzzy very bad quality
I went and installed 7
I'm not certain but I believe I have those aero effects
I'm not sure what worked really
It downloaded a driver but it was dated from sept 09
I used the ones recently past 2 weeks were updated
I did use that website above but I don't know if I had to
on this issue yet?could this work? I'll try it if I install 7
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
I bought 7 but I am reluctant to install it yet
The upgrade advisor pointed this out as well
I'll share my two cents on it anyway
When I bought a new hard drive for the same computer by the way
I had a lot of problems and i guess i still do even installing XP again
I have learned to deal with it, but the only resolution that works is the highest one
anything else is a fuzzy very bad quality
I went and installed 7
I'm not certain but I believe I have those aero effects
I'm not sure what worked really
It downloaded a driver but it was dated from sept 09
I used the ones recently past 2 weeks were updated
I did use that website above but I don't know if I had to
Hello!! I finally managed to make my problem go away !!
The driver I used was
---9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu-[Guru3D.com]----
from guru 3d.com of course.
If anybody else (poor souls out there like me) has a problem with SCREEN FLICKER IN FULLSCREEN 3D ON W7 WITH ATI X1300 mobile radeon this should work!
First I ran "driversweeper" which is a downloadable exe app from 3d guru which cleans out all remains of older drivers. ( just run the exe, check "ati" and click clean)
Then I ran the mobility modder on said drivers (mobility modder and installation is described earlier in this thread, it looks complicated at first but is really simple)
then I did a simple manual install of the driver (CH_76829.msi) using windows device manager. And now it finally works. Maybe it is possible to use older or newer drivers but this is the first that has worked in my case. If anyone else has the same problem with x1200 or x1250 I hope this can be helpful for you. I usually never follow up posts like this but this has been a real skull-tearer.
but it works... in the end.. yayyyy.
never give up,
never surrender.
i forgot about this
that must have helped because i used it when i first installed it
i never had any problems
that must have helped because i used it when i first installed it
i never had any problems
When I installed Windows 7 on my Acer TravelMate 6460 laptop (which had been running on Windows XP) it did not recognise the ATI card and instead it saw a Generic PnP Monitor on a Standard VGA Graphics Adapter.
Doing some digging around the web and on this forum I saw that, while no Windows 7 driver will be released by ATI for the Mobility Radeon X1300, the Vista driver should work, albeit without access to some Win 7-specific graphics features.
Has anyone been able to make it work?
I downloaded a Vista graphics driver (VGA_ATI_8.31.100.3_VistaX64) from the Acer website. This appeared to install and said the installation was complete. The installation program said the driver would be installed at C:/program files/ATI Technologies.
An 'AST Technologies' directory was created, but there was nothing in it. A separate 'ATI' directory was also created, with a subdirectory called CIM with very little data in it. That subdirectory had two further subdirectories: Config and Reports.
The Reports folder had a log of the installation, and its Error Messages section contained dozens of entries that all said 'Catalyst� Install Manager could not find path'.
I haven't tried it yet but I saw suggested on this forum that the Vista legacy driver could be obtained from AMD's Catalyst Display Driver site here. Has anyone tried these, and are they generic enough that they would work on a particular model of laptop?
Also, here are two drivers there, - the Catalyst Software Suite and WDM Integrated Driver. I have no idea which would be the best to try. The first is much bigger than the Vista driver I got from the Acer website and the other is much smaller.
Also - the website mentioned above is run by AMD. Are their drivers specific to computers with AMD processors? My machine has an Intel Core 2 T7200 2.0Mhz processor.
Doing some digging around the web and on this forum I saw that, while no Windows 7 driver will be released by ATI for the Mobility Radeon X1300, the Vista driver should work, albeit without access to some Win 7-specific graphics features.
Has anyone been able to make it work?
I downloaded a Vista graphics driver (VGA_ATI_8.31.100.3_VistaX64) from the Acer website. This appeared to install and said the installation was complete. The installation program said the driver would be installed at C:/program files/ATI Technologies.
An 'AST Technologies' directory was created, but there was nothing in it. A separate 'ATI' directory was also created, with a subdirectory called CIM with very little data in it. That subdirectory had two further subdirectories: Config and Reports.
The Reports folder had a log of the installation, and its Error Messages section contained dozens of entries that all said 'Catalyst� Install Manager could not find path'.
I haven't tried it yet but I saw suggested on this forum that the Vista legacy driver could be obtained from AMD's Catalyst Display Driver site here. Has anyone tried these, and are they generic enough that they would work on a particular model of laptop?
Also, here are two drivers there, - the Catalyst Software Suite and WDM Integrated Driver. I have no idea which would be the best to try. The first is much bigger than the Vista driver I got from the Acer website and the other is much smaller.
Also - the website mentioned above is run by AMD. Are their drivers specific to computers with AMD processors? My machine has an Intel Core 2 T7200 2.0Mhz processor.
Hello
I know how frustrating this can be so here is what I know:
It appears that you may not have read this thread from beginning to end
What you have probably gathered is that making the X1300 work on w7 is not that easy especially since the series is basically not receiving any updates.
I will try to answer some of your questions. (please note that altough my data knowledge is above average I am no expert)
"-Has anyone been able to make it work?"
Yes I did and I think some other on this forum did too. If you read this post from beginning to end you will see how.
Breakdown:
-download and extract the 9.3 legacy 64 drivers from guru 3d
-use the mobility modder tool before attempting to install the driver
-use the driversweeper utilty from guru 3d to clean your machine out of old ATI stuff.
-install the drivers from the extracted and modded "lh6a" folder, the "CH_76829.msi" (for 64 bit OS) drivers.
All the links and details are described earlier in this thread.
"Has anyone tried these, and are they generic enough that they would work on a particular model of laptop?"
No idea. I've tried many drivers and none worked for me except the one I mention. That is, some appeared to work in normal 2d windows operation, but when running fullscreen 3D it would not work at all. (this only applies to w7, in vista and XP i have had no problem with this card, altough people keep repeating that if it works in vista it should work in 7)
Other things: Which folders appear are not important you just need to find that driver and get it installed. You don't need the catalyst software suite either but some people think it's neat. I think it is completely useless (IMHO). -The X1300 is a crappy card so tweaking around is not gonna bring about any big fireworks.
You're not going to need or use the WMD driver as far as I know. AMD fused with ATI and owns them but ATI is still manufacturing and branding the video cards , which processor you have is irrelevant.
Good Luck with making it work!!
I know how frustrating
this can be so here is what I know:It appears that you may not have read this thread from beginning to end
What you have probably gathered is that making the X1300 work on w7 is not that easy especially since the series is basically not receiving any updates.
I will try to answer some of your questions. (please note that altough my data knowledge is above average I am no expert)
"-Has anyone been able to make it work?"
Yes I did and I think some other on this forum did too. If you read this post from beginning to end you will see how.
Breakdown:
-download and extract the 9.3 legacy 64 drivers from guru 3d
-use the mobility modder tool before attempting to install the driver
-use the driversweeper utilty from guru 3d to clean your machine out of old ATI stuff.
-install the drivers from the extracted and modded "lh6a" folder, the "CH_76829.msi" (for 64 bit OS) drivers.
All the links and details are described earlier in this thread.
"Has anyone tried these, and are they generic enough that they would work on a particular model of laptop?"
No idea. I've tried many drivers and none worked for me except the one I mention. That is, some appeared to work in normal 2d windows operation, but when running fullscreen 3D it would not work at all. (this only applies to w7, in vista and XP i have had no problem with this card, altough people keep repeating that if it works in vista it should work in 7)
Other things: Which folders appear are not important you just need to find that driver and get it installed. You don't need the catalyst software suite either but some people think it's neat. I think it is completely useless (IMHO). -The X1300 is a crappy card so tweaking around is not gonna bring about any big fireworks.
You're not going to need or use the WMD driver as far as I know. AMD fused with ATI and owns them but ATI is still manufacturing and branding the video cards , which processor you have is irrelevant.
Good Luck with making it work!!
Hi kokosbolle. That looks like useful information and I really appreciate the work put into it. However I still have concerns, as described below.
I've also been looking at a Microsoft Technet forum, where they are suggesting a different approach, which is to update the X1300 driver with the latest 'legacy' driver from ATI, which is 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe (at ATI Catalyst? Legacy Display Driver)
This thread is at Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver. My issues are towards the bottom of the thread.
Is is 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe just an update on the '9.3 legacy 64 drivers from guru 3d' you talk about? And if it is an update, do I still need to do these things you mention:
�-use the mobility modder tool before attempting to install the driver
�-use the driversweeper utilty from guru 3d to clean your machine out of old ATI stuff.
�-install the drivers from the extracted and modded "lh6a" folder, the "CH_76829.msi" (for 64 bit OS) drivers.�
The problem I see with the social.technet.microsoft.com/Forum route � and it could be a problem with what you are suggesting also � is that, for some reason, my device manager is not seeing the card as an X1300. Instead, it is seeing it as 'Generic PnP Monitor', which it says is working properly. (Unfortunately it doesn�t give the correct resolution for my screen.)
To be honest, I'm really confused. I have two different sets of advice, and a display adaptor that is not even being recognised as being an ATI device.
One the face of it, the Microsoft tech forum solution looks much less complicated than your solution, but I don�t care which I use, as long as it works. At the moment I can�t go online on the laptop concerned, because I foolishly agreed, when installing Win7, that it could go online for validation automatically after three days. As I am installing an OEM version, I don�t want to let it do that until I know Win7 is going to work properly on the laptop. As soon as it validates, it will be tied to that particular laptop forever.
Regards
I've also been looking at a Microsoft Technet forum, where they are suggesting a different approach, which is to update the X1300 driver with the latest 'legacy' driver from ATI, which is 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe (at ATI Catalyst? Legacy Display Driver)
This thread is at Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver. My issues are towards the bottom of the thread.
Is is 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe just an update on the '9.3 legacy 64 drivers from guru 3d' you talk about? And if it is an update, do I still need to do these things you mention:
�-use the mobility modder tool before attempting to install the driver
�-use the driversweeper utilty from guru 3d to clean your machine out of old ATI stuff.
�-install the drivers from the extracted and modded "lh6a" folder, the "CH_76829.msi" (for 64 bit OS) drivers.�
The problem I see with the social.technet.microsoft.com/Forum route � and it could be a problem with what you are suggesting also � is that, for some reason, my device manager is not seeing the card as an X1300. Instead, it is seeing it as 'Generic PnP Monitor', which it says is working properly. (Unfortunately it doesn�t give the correct resolution for my screen.)
To be honest, I'm really confused. I have two different sets of advice, and a display adaptor that is not even being recognised as being an ATI device.
One the face of it, the Microsoft tech forum solution looks much less complicated than your solution, but I don�t care which I use, as long as it works. At the moment I can�t go online on the laptop concerned, because I foolishly agreed, when installing Win7, that it could go online for validation automatically after three days. As I am installing an OEM version, I don�t want to let it do that until I know Win7 is going to work properly on the laptop. As soon as it validates, it will be tied to that particular laptop forever.
Regards
Hi jmac,
I also have an Acer Travelmate 6460 (6463WLMi) and had some problems when installing Win7 (you can read below). And also, after installing the ATI card wasn't recognized as a Radeon X1300 but only as Generic PnP Monitor on a Standard VGA Graphics Adapter with a resolution of 1024x768 (or so).
And now, the card is recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 and the max. resolution is 1280x800.
In my opinion using the modder tool isn't very difficult.
- download and install it
- download the display driver
- start installing the display driver and stop it, when it is unpacked in c:\ATI\support ...
- start the modding tool and use as described on the homepage
- start installing ATI driver from the directory as described
- restart the notebook and be happy with using the ATI Graphics Card with a good resolution.
On my notebook first I installed Win7 64-bit, later I installed Win7 32-bit. I tried to install different versions of display driver, but some I couldn't install.
The best result was using ATI Catalyst 9.3 (for example from guru3d). Choose the right version (32- od 64bit) depending on your installed OS.
OK?
woger
I also have an Acer Travelmate 6460 (6463WLMi) and had some problems when installing Win7 (you can read below). And also, after installing the ATI card wasn't recognized as a Radeon X1300 but only as Generic PnP Monitor on a Standard VGA Graphics Adapter with a resolution of 1024x768 (or so).
And now, the card is recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 and the max. resolution is 1280x800.
In my opinion using the modder tool isn't very difficult.
- download and install it
- download the display driver
- start installing the display driver and stop it, when it is unpacked in c:\ATI\support ...
- start the modding tool and use as described on the homepage
- start installing ATI driver from the directory as described
- restart the notebook and be happy with using the ATI Graphics Card with a good resolution.
On my notebook first I installed Win7 64-bit, later I installed Win7 32-bit. I tried to install different versions of display driver, but some I couldn't install.
The best result was using ATI Catalyst 9.3 (for example from guru3d). Choose the right version (32- od 64bit) depending on your installed OS.
OK?
woger
Hi Woger � thanks for your post. It's great to hear I should be able to continue to use the 6460 with Windows 7, from someone who has the same computer model. I�d really hate to go back to XP � at least to the horribly kludged version of XP that Acer provided. Windows 7 runs like greased lightning compared with Acer�s XP.
I won�t be able to get to my laptop to try the things you and kokosbolle have suggested for at least another 24 hours, so here is another question:
You say your card is now recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with a max. resolution of 1280x800. That is way below the native resolution for the screen 6460�s screen, which is 1680 x 1050. 1280x800 is pretty low, but at least the proportions are the same. Does it look any good? Surely the graphics must look inferior � the 1680 x 1050 resolution does make pictures look really great. Actually I wouldn�t mind the screen resolution being a little bit lower, because the very fine res can make text hard to read. But at least the fine resolution puts a fair bit on the screen when I use the laptop for page layout.
I�ve put 32-bit Win7 on the machine. I ran a 64 bit RC1 version on my office desktop for a long time and got frustrated that it refused to load an important 16 bit legacy application. You can�t use the compatibility thing if it won�t even start to install an app. I just installed the final Win7 version on that machine and I went back to 32 bit � my long lost app now works!
I can�t see any advantage in having 64 bit Win7 on a Travelmate 6460.
I won�t be able to get to my laptop to try the things you and kokosbolle have suggested for at least another 24 hours, so here is another question:
You say your card is now recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with a max. resolution of 1280x800. That is way below the native resolution for the screen 6460�s screen, which is 1680 x 1050. 1280x800 is pretty low, but at least the proportions are the same. Does it look any good? Surely the graphics must look inferior � the 1680 x 1050 resolution does make pictures look really great. Actually I wouldn�t mind the screen resolution being a little bit lower, because the very fine res can make text hard to read. But at least the fine resolution puts a fair bit on the screen when I use the laptop for page layout.
I�ve put 32-bit Win7 on the machine. I ran a 64 bit RC1 version on my office desktop for a long time and got frustrated that it refused to load an important 16 bit legacy application. You can�t use the compatibility thing if it won�t even start to install an app. I just installed the final Win7 version on that machine and I went back to 32 bit � my long lost app now works!
I can�t see any advantage in having 64 bit Win7 on a Travelmate 6460.
�� Quote: Originally Posted by jmacg 
Hi Woger � thanks for your post. It's great to hear I should be able to continue to use the 6460 with Windows 7, from someone who has the same computer model. I�d really hate to go back to XP � at least to the horribly kludged version of XP that Acer provided. Windows 7 runs like greased lightning compared with Acer�s XP.
I won�t be able to get to my laptop to try the things you and kokosbolle have suggested for at least another 24 hours, so here is another question:
You say your card is now recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with a max. resolution of 1280x800. That is way below the native resolution for the screen 6460�s screen, which is 1680 x 1050. 1280x800 is pretty low, but at least the proportions are the same. Does it look any good? Surely the graphics must look inferior � the 1680 x 1050 resolution does make pictures look really great. Actually I wouldn�t mind the screen resolution being a little bit lower, because the very fine res can make text hard to read. But at least the fine resolution puts a fair bit on the screen when I use the laptop for page layout.
I�ve put 32-bit Win7 on the machine. I ran a 64 bit RC1 version on my office desktop for a long time and got frustrated that it refused to load an important 16 bit legacy application. You can�t use the compatibility thing if it won�t even start to install an app. I just installed the final Win7 version on that machine and I went back to 32 bit � my long lost app now works!
I can�t see any advantage in having 64 bit Win7 on a Travelmate 6460.
I won�t be able to get to my laptop to try the things you and kokosbolle have suggested for at least another 24 hours, so here is another question:
You say your card is now recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 with a max. resolution of 1280x800. That is way below the native resolution for the screen 6460�s screen, which is 1680 x 1050. 1280x800 is pretty low, but at least the proportions are the same. Does it look any good? Surely the graphics must look inferior � the 1680 x 1050 resolution does make pictures look really great. Actually I wouldn�t mind the screen resolution being a little bit lower, because the very fine res can make text hard to read. But at least the fine resolution puts a fair bit on the screen when I use the laptop for page layout.
I�ve put 32-bit Win7 on the machine. I ran a 64 bit RC1 version on my office desktop for a long time and got frustrated that it refused to load an important 16 bit legacy application. You can�t use the compatibility thing if it won�t even start to install an app. I just installed the final Win7 version on that machine and I went back to 32 bit � my long lost app now works!
I can�t see any advantage in having 64 bit Win7 on a Travelmate 6460.
Frostmourne � thanks for the links to your tutorials. They are both excellent.
You seem to be surprised that I see no advantage in putting 64 bit Windows on my Travelmate 6460.
I see little point in running 64-bit Windows because the Travelmate 6460 is getting behind the 8-ball now in terms of processing power � 2.0Ghz. I can't see myself wanting to use it for anything that would benefit from more than the 4Gb of RAM that I can access in a 32 bit system. Right now I have 2x1Gb RAM modules and to even go to 4Gb would mean tossing both existing modules out and starting again. Not worth spending the money when things are running fine with 2Gb. (At least they were in XP. I'll have to see how it performs with Win7 once I start pushing things.) When I need to do especially grunty work, I use my desktop, which has a quad processor.
And the ability to run the legacy 16 bit app is important to me on both machines.
Right now there are damn-all applications that demand 64-bit � certainly no applications that I need. Sure, I could run my Adobe Creative Suite apps faster with 64 bit, but I'd have to pay quite a bit of money to upgrade to new versions. Meanwhile, my 32-bit Adobe apps run really well on my desktop and OK on the laptop.
So for me there are no real advantages in going 64-bit on my Travelmate. It can feel nice to be at the cutting-edge, but been there, done that for six months with Win7 RC1 on my desktop. The thrill didn't last.
By the time there are real advantages in using a 64 bit OS on an underpowered laptop, I'll have upgraded to a new machine.
You seem to be surprised that I see no advantage in putting 64 bit Windows on my Travelmate 6460.
I see little point in running 64-bit Windows because the Travelmate 6460 is getting behind the 8-ball now in terms of processing power � 2.0Ghz. I can't see myself wanting to use it for anything that would benefit from more than the 4Gb of RAM that I can access in a 32 bit system. Right now I have 2x1Gb RAM modules and to even go to 4Gb would mean tossing both existing modules out and starting again. Not worth spending the money when things are running fine with 2Gb. (At least they were in XP. I'll have to see how it performs with Win7 once I start pushing things.) When I need to do especially grunty work, I use my desktop, which has a quad processor.
And the ability to run the legacy 16 bit app is important to me on both machines.
Right now there are damn-all applications that demand 64-bit � certainly no applications that I need. Sure, I could run my Adobe Creative Suite apps faster with 64 bit, but I'd have to pay quite a bit of money to upgrade to new versions. Meanwhile, my 32-bit Adobe apps run really well on my desktop and OK on the laptop.
So for me there are no real advantages in going 64-bit on my Travelmate. It can feel nice to be at the cutting-edge, but been there, done that for six months with Win7 RC1 on my desktop. The thrill didn't last.
By the time there are real advantages in using a 64 bit OS on an underpowered laptop, I'll have upgraded to a new machine.
�� Quote: Originally Posted by woger And now, the card is recognized as ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 and the max. resolution is 1280x800.
woger
I wasn't going to able to do this straight away, but I got out of an after-work function and did the video fix instead.
Brilliant. Thanks to you guys, and especially to the smart cookies who wrote the ATI Mobility Modder.
Incidentally, another good thing about having Windows 7 on the laptop is that I can now use my bluetooth mouse again. It stopped working 18 months ago and nothing I could do, short of reinstalling Windfows XP, would make it work again.
Hi jmac,
Congratulations for your successful installation.
To your question about resolution of my notebook.
This is my version ...
Acer Travelmate 6463WLMi ... Layer) / DVD-RAM - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN : 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR - TPM - Fingerabdruck, Smartcard - Win XP Pro - 15.4" Breitbildschirm TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) ...
woger
Congratulations for your successful installation.
To your question about resolution of my notebook.
This is my version ...
Acer Travelmate 6463WLMi ... Layer) / DVD-RAM - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN : 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR - TPM - Fingerabdruck, Smartcard - Win XP Pro - 15.4" Breitbildschirm TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) ...
woger
�� Quote: Originally Posted by woger Hi jmac,
Congratulations for your successful installation.
woger
Congratulations for your successful installation.
woger
While my initial impression was that my problems were over, I soon noticed strange things which were different from other display glitches that have been mentioned in this thread.
My two Mozilla products, Firefox and Thunderbird, displayed greatly enlarged. It was as though they were running at 800x600 or even lower. No such problem with Internet Explorer, which displayed correctly.
I don�t have many other apps on the computer yet to test them. Skype was fine. I looked at a few apps that came with Windows 7 and they were OK.
I installed Google Earth and immediately ran into trouble. It complained that my display was less than 1024x768, and it did display greatly enlarged, like Firefox.
It seems paradoxical to me, but my video driver seems to provide 1680x1050 for some programs and 800x600 or less for others. Does anyone have an idea what�s happening and if it is possible to fix it?
One step I didn�t take in the process was run driversweeper before anything else. This was mentioned by kokosbolle, but not by Woger, who has the same model laptop as me. Woger just used Modder. But like me, his X1300 adapters had not even been recognised in the Win7 installation process, so only generic drivers had been installed initially � so presumably there would have been no ATI stuff to clean up. (But could there have been a remnant of it from the original XP installation?)
What would happen if I used the 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe driver that was mentioned at the Microsoft Techforum and gave it the same treatment with Modder that I gave to the 9.3 legacy 64 drivers from guru 3d?
I will run driversweeper before any future driver reinstallations.
Hello again jmacg
First off, just for the record I also have an acer travelmate 6463 running 1680x1050 with the 9.3 driver installed. altough my profile info says otherwise.
Have you tried reinstalling firefox and thunderbird?
You mention you installed google earth which i think is a 3d app . Have you tried running any other windowed and/or fullscreen 3d applications? for troubleshooting?
I have not had a problem with my computer like the one you describe.
-I do however have a problem that my laptopscreen cannot stretch the image more than the actual resolution, meaning, if I run an app in 1024x768 I will see this image as a cutout in my laptop screen displaying the actual resolution pixel by pixel, a smaller image than the fullscreen. This is not a priority concern for me because I usually hook up my acer to an ext. screen which stretch the image for the computer.
As for the driver you mention I don't know.
If you go to display settings in w7 and click advanded options and open the display tab, does it say generic pnp monitor?
cheers and good luck.
kokos.
First off, just for the record I also have an acer travelmate 6463 running 1680x1050 with the 9.3 driver installed. altough my profile info says otherwise.
Have you tried reinstalling firefox and thunderbird?
You mention you installed google earth which i think is a 3d app . Have you tried running any other windowed and/or fullscreen 3d applications? for troubleshooting?
I have not had a problem with my computer like the one you describe.
-I do however have a problem that my laptopscreen cannot stretch the image more than the actual resolution, meaning, if I run an app in 1024x768 I will see this image as a cutout in my laptop screen displaying the actual resolution pixel by pixel, a smaller image than the fullscreen. This is not a priority concern for me because I usually hook up my acer to an ext. screen which stretch the image for the computer.
As for the driver you mention I don't know.
If you go to display settings in w7 and click advanded options and open the display tab, does it say generic pnp monitor?
cheers and good luck.
kokos.
�� Quote: Originally Posted by kokosbolle Hello again jmacg
First off, just for the record I also have an acer travelmate 6463 running 1680x1050 with the 9.3 driver installed. altough my profile info says otherwise.
Have you tried reinstalling firefox and thunderbird?
You mention you installed google earth which i think is a 3d app . Have you tried running any other windowed and/or fullscreen 3d applications? for troubleshooting?
I have not had a problem with my computer like the one you describe.
-I do however have a problem that my laptopscreen cannot stretch the image more than the actual resolution, meaning, if I run an app in 1024x768 I will see this image as a cutout in my laptop screen displaying the actual resolution pixel by pixel, a smaller image than the fullscreen. This is not a priority concern for me because I usually hook up my acer to an ext. screen which stretch the image for the computer.
As for the driver you mention I don't know.
If you go to display settings in w7 and click advanced options and open the display tab, does it say generic pnp monitor?
cheers and good luck.
kokos.
First off, just for the record I also have an acer travelmate 6463 running 1680x1050 with the 9.3 driver installed. altough my profile info says otherwise.
Have you tried reinstalling firefox and thunderbird?
You mention you installed google earth which i think is a 3d app . Have you tried running any other windowed and/or fullscreen 3d applications? for troubleshooting?
I have not had a problem with my computer like the one you describe.
-I do however have a problem that my laptopscreen cannot stretch the image more than the actual resolution, meaning, if I run an app in 1024x768 I will see this image as a cutout in my laptop screen displaying the actual resolution pixel by pixel, a smaller image than the fullscreen. This is not a priority concern for me because I usually hook up my acer to an ext. screen which stretch the image for the computer.
As for the driver you mention I don't know.
If you go to display settings in w7 and click advanced options and open the display tab, does it say generic pnp monitor?
cheers and good luck.
kokos.
Re display settings - it correctly says I have an ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 adapter but says the monitor is Generic PnP.
Incidently, those information windows are affected by this problem I have. The text in the top bar - e.g. 'Generic PnP Monitor Properties' - is sharp. Everything below that is enlarged and not sharp. I've noticed this effect elsewhere in dialogue/information windows.
Incidentally if there seems to be a time disconnect between my postings and others in this thread, it�s because I live in the southern hemisphere (NZ).
Cheers - off to work
John
I may yet be forced to go back to XP on my Acer 6460. I haven't been able so far to resolve the issue with the 9.3 driver, which, though it does recognise my video adapter, gives me a mixture of resolutions: the correct resolution of 1680 x 1050 for most stuff that is effectively vector graphics, and 800x600 or less on icons and text that are bitmaps. All on the same 1680 x 1050 page!
Kokosbolle asked if I had reinstalled Fox and Thunderbird and what was the result. It didn't fix anything.
Here's what I have installed so far:
Google Earth: effectively useless. A warning to that effect came up during installation, when it said the resolution was too low.
MS Office 2003: perfect (IE8 is also OK)
Skype: perfect
Photoshop: not good. All the palettes, toolboxes etc are bitmap graphics and all are enlarged and a bit fuzzy. This means my screen real estate is severely restricted.
InDesign: hopeless. It refuses to install at all because it says it needs a minimum of 1024x768. (I though I was giving it 1680 x 1050!)
Ziepod: useable, but text enlarged and fuzzy
Mailwasher Pro: ditto.
It all seems very weird. Kokosbolle and Woger both have similar, though not identical Acer Travelmates to me, and while the 9.3 driver hasn't made their displays perfect, I gather the imperfections can be lived with. I'd try to put up with the situation too, if it weren't for the inability to install InDesign at all. I need that professionally, so it's a gamebreaker.
If I've exhausted the knowledge of you guys on this issue, do you you have any suggestions where I can go for more information?
Later...I installed the later 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc driver from the AMD legacy drivers website, according to separate instructions I'd seen at the MS Techforum. (Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver) That made no difference at all. But I didn't run Mobility Modder over it first, suspecting that that would have no effect. The sequence of this install, provided by Peter Creer on the Techforum, was:
1. http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7854/55229468.png
2. http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6049/11505684.png
3. http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/5713/96797980.png
4. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1732/86884099.png
5. http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2729/54913829.png
6. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3185/36144075.png
7. http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6762/85239576.png
Kokosbolle asked if I had reinstalled Fox and Thunderbird and what was the result. It didn't fix anything.
Here's what I have installed so far:
Google Earth: effectively useless. A warning to that effect came up during installation, when it said the resolution was too low.
MS Office 2003: perfect (IE8 is also OK)
Skype: perfect
Photoshop: not good. All the palettes, toolboxes etc are bitmap graphics and all are enlarged and a bit fuzzy. This means my screen real estate is severely restricted.
InDesign: hopeless. It refuses to install at all because it says it needs a minimum of 1024x768. (I though I was giving it 1680 x 1050!)
Ziepod: useable, but text enlarged and fuzzy
Mailwasher Pro: ditto.
It all seems very weird. Kokosbolle and Woger both have similar, though not identical Acer Travelmates to me, and while the 9.3 driver hasn't made their displays perfect, I gather the imperfections can be lived with. I'd try to put up with the situation too, if it weren't for the inability to install InDesign at all. I need that professionally, so it's a gamebreaker.
If I've exhausted the knowledge of you guys on this issue, do you you have any suggestions where I can go for more information?
Later...I installed the later 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc driver from the AMD legacy drivers website, according to separate instructions I'd seen at the MS Techforum. (Hibernate issue - cause by ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) driver) That made no difference at all. But I didn't run Mobility Modder over it first, suspecting that that would have no effect. The sequence of this install, provided by Peter Creer on the Techforum, was:
1. http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7854/55229468.png
2. http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6049/11505684.png
3. http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/5713/96797980.png
4. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1732/86884099.png
5. http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2729/54913829.png
6. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3185/36144075.png
7. http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6762/85239576.png
Hello all.
First post here.
I just HAD to regoster for this thread becuase I am experiencing exactly the same problems as others here, but I have NOT been able to find a fix.
Here we go:
Just updated to Windows 7 32bit.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with the X1300 Graphics Card.
Like everyone else, I cannot get it to work.
I have spend about 8 hours today trying to get it working - no luck.
As with others, Windows 7 installs a driver via Upate that says it is the X1300 - great.
BUT, the resolution is nor right. The screen is not proportional on any of the setting (the max of which is 1024x768).
I can get the Aero effects working, which is cool but the resolution is SSSOOO low compared to what I had in XP.
When I try to follow the directions left in the thread regarding using Catalyst 9.3 Vista 32bit, and try to install the driver, I get the message that "The specified service has been marked for deletion."
So now I am stuck with terrible resolution that is stretched and I just CANNOT get it fixed.
When I choose Standard VGA Graphics, I get a better resolution (but it is still not proportional) but no Aero etc.
I don't care about CCC, I just want the 1650x1080 resolution back again (like I had in X) with Aero effects in 7.
What can I do???
Any help would be GREAT!
Thanks
First post here.
I just HAD to regoster for this thread becuase I am experiencing exactly the same problems as others here, but I have NOT been able to find a fix.
Here we go:
Just updated to Windows 7 32bit.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with the X1300 Graphics Card.
Like everyone else, I cannot get it to work.
I have spend about 8 hours today trying to get it working - no luck.
As with others, Windows 7 installs a driver via Upate that says it is the X1300 - great.
BUT, the resolution is nor right. The screen is not proportional on any of the setting (the max of which is 1024x768).
I can get the Aero effects working, which is cool but the resolution is SSSOOO low compared to what I had in XP.
When I try to follow the directions left in the thread regarding using Catalyst 9.3 Vista 32bit, and try to install the driver, I get the message that "The specified service has been marked for deletion."
So now I am stuck with terrible resolution that is stretched and I just CANNOT get it fixed.
When I choose Standard VGA Graphics, I get a better resolution (but it is still not proportional) but no Aero etc.
I don't care about CCC, I just want the 1650x1080 resolution back again (like I had in X) with Aero effects in 7.
What can I do???
Any help would be GREAT!
Thanks
Have you tried installing the driver using the ATI Mobility Modder to tweak the 9.3 driver? Both Kokosbolle and Woger have done it and got the correct pixel proportions after those proportions were not available to them initially. Same for me, though I have had other problems since I nominally got my correct 1680 x 1050. But for the others it's been largely successful.
I found their instructions for using Mobility Modder easy to follow.
Good luck!
I found their instructions for using Mobility Modder easy to follow.
Good luck!
"If I've exhausted the knowledge of you guys on this issue, do you you have any suggestions where I can go for more information?"
Yeah, on my part it would appear so. Sorry! I don't know about this.
maybe some of the "big guns" on this page could help if they read this.
kokos.
Yeah, on my part it would appear so. Sorry! I don't know about this.
maybe some of the "big guns" on this page could help if they read this.
kokos.
jmacg,
Yeah. I have tried that.
I have tried using the modder to mod all of the drivers up to 9.3 but they all do exactly the same thing. Either it installs the driver when I let the program do it automatically (by just going through the setup) then I am stuck with only 4 choices for resolution, none of which have the correct proportions.
Or, if I choose to install by using Device Driver then manually selecting the .inf windows tells me that "Windows found the files but they were not able to be installed. The files have been marked for delete."
Or, if I let Windows Update install the driver, it says it is the X1300 but the resolution again is not right, and also the hardware acceleration does not work so no Aero etc. Aleso, letting Windows install is, when I install CCC it says that no X1300 device has been detected so I can't use CCC to control the resolution (which I thought may have helped).
I have Windows 7 32bit. Does that make a difference? Would installing 64bit help?
How did you get it to work so you got the 1650x1080 resolution?
What steps did you take?
Thanks
Yeah. I have tried that.
I have tried using the modder to mod all of the drivers up to 9.3 but they all do exactly the same thing. Either it installs the driver when I let the program do it automatically (by just going through the setup) then I am stuck with only 4 choices for resolution, none of which have the correct proportions.
Or, if I choose to install by using Device Driver then manually selecting the .inf windows tells me that "Windows found the files but they were not able to be installed. The files have been marked for delete."
Or, if I let Windows Update install the driver, it says it is the X1300 but the resolution again is not right, and also the hardware acceleration does not work so no Aero etc. Aleso, letting Windows install is, when I install CCC it says that no X1300 device has been detected so I can't use CCC to control the resolution (which I thought may have helped).
I have Windows 7 32bit. Does that make a difference? Would installing 64bit help?
How did you get it to work so you got the 1650x1080 resolution?
What steps did you take?
Thanks
�� Quote: Originally Posted by gogorman I have Windows 7 32bit. Does that make a difference? Would installing 64bit help?
How did you get it to work so you got the 1650x1080 resolution?
What steps did you take?
Thanks
How did you get it to work so you got the 1650x1080 resolution?
What steps did you take?
Thanks
As far as making the correct resolution (of 1680 x 1050, not the 1650x1080 you mention) available, I might be in a slightly different situation, in that the ATI card was not seen from the start, and only a generic driver was installed. Woger had the same experience.
For both of us, the solution was to follow instructions on this thread - install the 9.3 driver to C:\ATI, but stop the process before the full installation took place. Then run Mobility Modder in the appropriate place in C:\ATI, then run the setup.
After that, the X1300 adapter was recognised and the installation defaulted to the correct resolution for my screen.
In my case, as you will have read, things were still a shambles.
Something I haven't done, but which I intend to try next, is to do a new install, first cleaning things up with the GuruE3D Driver Sweeper. And I'll use the 9.11 driver, which I moved on to next. (I found it didn't make things any different. But I didn't apply either Driver Sweeper or Mobility Modder at the time. I just used the standard update driver facility.)
�� Quote: Originally Posted by kokosbolle "If I've exhausted the knowledge of you guys on this issue, do you you have any suggestions where I can go for more information?"
Yeah, on my part it would appear so. Sorry! I don't know about this.
maybe some of the "big guns" on this page could help if they read this.
kokos.
Yeah, on my part it would appear so. Sorry! I don't know about this.
maybe some of the "big guns" on this page could help if they read this.
kokos.
jmacg,
Which version of the driver do you have installed in your Device Manager?
When you downloaded the 9.3 and installed via Device manager, mine pops up with 4 or 5 different devices - one Standard VGA, and 3 or 4 X1300 with different driver numbers.
What version did you install that worked?
This is really beginning to irritate me now.
I have uninstalled all the drivers.
Ran the Driver Sweeper.
restarted.
Unpacked the 9.3 Installer, then canceled it.
Ran the Modder Tool.
Then Installed via Device Manager.
Same thing everytime now - the driver installes and i have Aero effects, but the max resolution I can get is 1024x768 which is 1) too small and 2) not proportional.
Which version of the driver do you have installed in your Device Manager?
When you downloaded the 9.3 and installed via Device manager, mine pops up with 4 or 5 different devices - one Standard VGA, and 3 or 4 X1300 with different driver numbers.
What version did you install that worked?
This is really beginning to irritate me now.
I have uninstalled all the drivers.
Ran the Driver Sweeper.
restarted.
Unpacked the 9.3 Installer, then canceled it.
Ran the Modder Tool.
Then Installed via Device Manager.
Same thing everytime now - the driver installes and i have Aero effects, but the max resolution I can get is 1024x768 which is 1) too small and 2) not proportional.
OH MY GOD!
I feel like SUCH an idiot.
So I am finally able to get CCC installed with the driver also - same issue.
Then I think to myself "It is as if it thinks my laptop is plugged into an external display, and it is reporting the resolution for THAT display."
So I think to myself "I wonder if my laptop is somehow in Presentation mode?" So I hit Fn+F8 and low and behold that was the problem all along. My laptop was in the external monitor mode and that's why it was reporting the low, strange resolution.
I CANNOT believe that is what wasted 8 hours of my life yesterday and today.
Thanks for all the help - I really appreciate it.
I still can't believe it!
I feel like SUCH an idiot.
So I am finally able to get CCC installed with the driver also - same issue.
Then I think to myself "It is as if it thinks my laptop is plugged into an external display, and it is reporting the resolution for THAT display."
So I think to myself "I wonder if my laptop is somehow in Presentation mode?" So I hit Fn+F8 and low and behold that was the problem all along. My laptop was in the external monitor mode and that's why it was reporting the low, strange resolution.
I CANNOT believe that is what wasted 8 hours of my life yesterday and today.
Thanks for all the help - I really appreciate it.
I still can't believe it!
That's the sort of thing I do!
Now you've reverted to the laptop screen, is it behaving itself properly?
Regards
Now you've reverted to the laptop screen, is it behaving itself properly?
Regards
Yes.
It's working like a charm.
Glorious 1650x1080 resolution, Aero effects, smooth system performance.
It's like I have a new computer.
really happy now that it is working.
I hope you are able to get your working.
As a side note, before I realized the problem I had installed the modded 9.11 Legacy drivers and CCC. So those are the ones I have installed on now.
Perhaps that might help you if you are still having problems?
Thanks again.
It's working like a charm.
Glorious 1650x1080 resolution, Aero effects, smooth system performance.
It's like I have a new computer.
really happy now that it is working.
I hope you are able to get your working.
As a side note, before I realized the problem I had installed the modded 9.11 Legacy drivers and CCC. So those are the ones I have installed on now.
Perhaps that might help you if you are still having problems?
Thanks again.
i had a DELL INSPIRON E1505 ON vista ultimate running on a ATI mobility radeon x1300 and i decided to upgrade to window 7. before doing this i checked the compatibility and it said my card would be compatible. i installed it and on device manager it said the display driver was the Slandered VGA GRAPHICS ADAPTER and the graphics were really gay. i went to the dell web site and downloaded the mobility radeon x1300. it then told me to restart my computer when installations were done and i did, BUT THEN WHEN MY COMPUTER GOT PASTED THE COLORFUL BUBBLES ON THE START UP MY BACK LIGHT STOOPED WORKING BUT U COULD STILL SEE THE WINDOW STARTING UP TO THE HOME MENU. I WENT TO SYSTEM RESTORE AND AND RESTORED IT AND THE LIGHT CAME BACK ON. I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS DOING THIS. BUT CAN SOME ONE HELP ME IN COMPLETE DETAILS FROM START TO THE END ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1300 WORK WITH WINDOW 7.
I know thi si an old thread, read through the whole thing and never saw anyone mention using a midigied .inf flie for here ATI MobilityModder - HardwareHeaven.com Give ti a try it has had sucess befre. Good luck. Fabe
Hi, i had installed this modtool from hardwareheaven and the 9-11_legacy_7_vista_32-64_dd_ccc_mobility too. In both of then, aero runs ok and resolution as well, but when i play games (bfme2 or mythology and others) it reduces the resolution and don�t get full screen. My laptop is wildscreen, but only work games like a none widscreen monitor. Have anyone the same problem after install this mods?
�� Quote: Originally Posted by woger Hi killerkris14,
maybe i have a solution for your problem.
I also have a notebook with ATI Mobility X1300 and I installed Win7-64 in the last days. And first there was no posibility to change to 1280x800.
But I found a tool to solve the problem.
I hope it is ok in this forum to post the link, it is ATI MobilityModder - DriverHeaven.net.
And i used "ATI Catalyst 7.11 Vista (64-bit)" from guru3d.com
Good luck,
woger
maybe i have a solution for your problem.
I also have a notebook with ATI Mobility X1300 and I installed Win7-64 in the last days. And first there was no posibility to change to 1280x800.
But I found a tool to solve the problem.
I hope it is ok in this forum to post the link, it is ATI MobilityModder - DriverHeaven.net.
And i used "ATI Catalyst 7.11 Vista (64-bit)" from guru3d.com
Good luck,
woger
This is the resolve for Windows 7 ATI Radeon Mobility driver problem.
Thank you very much.
ATI Card X1xxx Driver Series are a pain to install
look for version 8.1 of the catalyst (complete package or just drivers) the lastest 10.2 only updates certain video cards and the x1 series cards are no longer supported since version 8.1 but the 10.2 catalyst updates need to be done after installing 8.1 driver because it updates the main catalyst software ad ensures proper working functions.
I have a XPS400 with a x1300 and a HP nx9420 with a x1600 that this procedure ensure proper drivers installed and full functionality
let me know if you need more information
look for version 8.1 of the catalyst (complete package or just drivers) the lastest 10.2 only updates certain video cards and the x1 series cards are no longer supported since version 8.1 but the 10.2 catalyst updates need to be done after installing 8.1 driver because it updates the main catalyst software ad ensures proper working functions.
I have a XPS400 with a x1300 and a HP nx9420 with a x1600 that this procedure ensure proper drivers installed and full functionality
let me know if you need more information
Thank you woger!!!! Thank you so much for providing access to that Modder!! It really helped, although with me, I had to reinstall the latest desktop driver (the ATI Catalyst 8.12 - Windows Vista 64 bit sufficed for me) to get the install manager to install that CH_76829.msi file. But yeah, thanks so much for your help man. I've literally spent the equivalent of like 10 hours over the past 2 days (okay maybe not 10) trying to figure this out.
And thank you kokosbelle for laying out the instructions. For me the windows device manager didn't work so I had to use the ATI install manager.
For anyone else here's what I did after I ran the modder on that 9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu file
(it looks like a lot but seriously it will take you like 3 minutes, not even, and yeah I was installing windows 7 on my dell inspiron E1505 which needed an ATI Mobility Radeon x1300 driver):
I went to back to that 9-3_vista... file,
(2. click the Driver folder
(3. click Packages folder
(4. click the Drivers folder you see there
(5. click the Display folder
(6. click the LH6A_INF folder
(7. in that folder you'll see the CH_76829 file with a computer icon next to it, right click that and press install. (I said yes to the option of using the install manager, saying no didn't work for me).
(note: for me it said that I needed the install manager. If you get an error message with the install manager, just go back to the modder website and do what I did reinstall the latest desktop driver (i.e. ATI Catalyst "something something" - for me I used 8.12)).
Then go back to the CH_76829 folder and right click it again and then install.
Then reboot your computer and jump for joy.
You have no idea how happy I am right now, like when it first started working I almost cried
And thank you kokosbelle for laying out the instructions. For me the windows device manager didn't work so I had to use the ATI install manager.
For anyone else here's what I did after I ran the modder on that 9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu file
(it looks like a lot but seriously it will take you like 3 minutes, not even, and yeah I was installing windows 7 on my dell inspiron E1505 which needed an ATI Mobility Radeon x1300 driver):
I went to back to that 9-3_vista... file,
(2. click the Driver folder
(3. click Packages folder
(4. click the Drivers folder you see there
(5. click the Display folder
(6. click the LH6A_INF folder
(7. in that folder you'll see the CH_76829 file with a computer icon next to it, right click that and press install. (I said yes to the option of using the install manager, saying no didn't work for me).
(note: for me it said that I needed the install manager. If you get an error message with the install manager, just go back to the modder website and do what I did reinstall the latest desktop driver (i.e. ATI Catalyst "something something" - for me I used 8.12)).
Then go back to the CH_76829 folder and right click it again and then install.
Then reboot your computer and jump for joy.
You have no idea how happy I am right now, like when it first started working I almost cried
�� Quote: Originally Posted by kokosbolle Hello!! I finally managed to make my problem go away !!
The driver I used was
---9-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu-[Guru3D.com]----
from guru 3d.com of course.
If anybody else (poor souls out there like me) has a problem with SCREEN FLICKER IN FULLSCREEN 3D ON W7 WITH ATI X1300 mobile radeon this should work!
First I ran "driversweeper" which is a downloadable exe app from 3d guru which cleans out all remains of older drivers. ( just run the exe, check "ati" and click clean)
Then I ran the mobility modder on said drivers (mobility modder and installation is described earlier in this thread, it looks complicated at first but is really simple)
then I did a simple manual install of the driver (CH_76829.msi) using windows device manager. And now it finally works. Maybe it is possible to use older or newer drivers but this is the first that has worked in my case. If anyone else has the same problem with x1200 or x1250 I hope this can be helpful for you. I usually never follow up posts like this but this has been a real skull-tearer.
but it works... in the end.. yayyyy.
never give up,
never surrender.
yeah, and anyone for whom the windows device manager doesn't work peep my earlier post where I go thru the step by step instructions.
Hi there. I replied to a similar thread too.
To whomever is experiencing the same issue,I had the same problem too and could finally work it out.
Lots of exe files and catalyst versions (11.x 12.x for xp, vista, 7 32 bit) on lots of web sites just to have my ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 recognized and working properly with win7: none of them working. I always got just catayst install manager and SKD development kit installed, but no driver at all, then nothing changed and happend on the resolution of my monitor.
After a few days of research in the web (googling properly) I found this out.
Last catalyst exe file and version for ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 seems to be 6.11. It has been delivered for xp and vista 32 bit and you can find and download it here:
AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 mobility drivers for Microsoft Windows Vista 32bit
the following step is: how do you get a vista software and driver work properly with win7? Here you go. It's just about running this exe file from win7 but in Vista mode as per what reported here:
Drivers - Install Vista Drivers on Windows 7
Using just these couple of steps I could finally make it: anything is fine now with my ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 fully available and working with win7.
Hope this can help anyone who does not believe that there is no way to have tech things work properly and does not give up.
Bye anyone.
To whomever is experiencing the same issue,I had the same problem too and could finally work it out.
Lots of exe files and catalyst versions (11.x 12.x for xp, vista, 7 32 bit) on lots of web sites just to have my ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 recognized and working properly with win7: none of them working. I always got just catayst install manager and SKD development kit installed, but no driver at all, then nothing changed and happend on the resolution of my monitor.
After a few days of research in the web (googling properly) I found this out.
Last catalyst exe file and version for ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 seems to be 6.11. It has been delivered for xp and vista 32 bit and you can find and download it here:
AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 mobility drivers for Microsoft Windows Vista 32bit
the following step is: how do you get a vista software and driver work properly with win7? Here you go. It's just about running this exe file from win7 but in Vista mode as per what reported here:
Drivers - Install Vista Drivers on Windows 7
Using just these couple of steps I could finally make it: anything is fine now with my ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 fully available and working with win7.
Hope this can help anyone who does not believe that there is no way to have tech things work properly and does not give up.
Bye anyone.
Brief update. After some Windows Update I still encountered problems.
Here is how I could finally make it work again, as of now:
- google and download catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm.exe file, you can find it here
catalyst_8-31-100-3-2-1_vista32_rtm.exe | DriverZone
- double click file to unzip/unpackage catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm files in its folder, BUT do NOT run final setup
- google, download and run "mobility modder", you can find it here
DH Mobility Modder.net | Download | Hardware Upgrade
F1/Help menu will tell you how to use it. Remember to use both folder and memory options.
- now (and only now) run setup.exe in catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm folder
- reboot and done
if you encounter problems it may be because previous versions of the drives had not been unistalled or did not unistall properly. In this case you can google, install and run Display Driver Unistaller (DDU), then re-do above steps. Here a couple of links where you can find it
Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 15.7.4.1
Official Display Driver Uninstaller DDU Download
This is how it worked, at least for me.
Hope I will not have to post any further update on this (meaning no more issues with this)
:-)
Here is how I could finally make it work again, as of now:
- google and download catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm.exe file, you can find it here
catalyst_8-31-100-3-2-1_vista32_rtm.exe | DriverZone
- double click file to unzip/unpackage catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm files in its folder, BUT do NOT run final setup
- google, download and run "mobility modder", you can find it here
DH Mobility Modder.net | Download | Hardware Upgrade
F1/Help menu will tell you how to use it. Remember to use both folder and memory options.
- now (and only now) run setup.exe in catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm folder
- reboot and done
if you encounter problems it may be because previous versions of the drives had not been unistalled or did not unistall properly. In this case you can google, install and run Display Driver Unistaller (DDU), then re-do above steps. Here a couple of links where you can find it
Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 15.7.4.1
Official Display Driver Uninstaller DDU Download
This is how it worked, at least for me.
Hope I will not have to post any further update on this (meaning no more issues with this)
:-)
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