Catalyst 9.3 or 9.31 on Windows 7 with x1900?

[phosfiend]

Upgraded (sidegraded?) from the windows 7 beta to the release candidate on my HTPC, and now my x1900 won't play nice with my LCD TV (connected via analog RGB)

I'm thinking (and correct me here if I'm out to lunch) that it has something to do with the drivers win 7 RC is forcing my to use (8.56.1.3 or something, I'm away from the box ATM). I've tried upgrading to 9.3, 9.31 and even 9.6 and none of them take. If I manually point the hardware manager to any of those drivers, win 7 insists that the one it already has installed is better.

Is there a way to strongarm win 7 into installing 9.3 or 9.31?

I stumbled onto this link, where that dude seems to have almost the same problem.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,

Rich

 

[Fox5]

ATI stopped updating drivers for the x1900 series.
My guess is they won't get much love in Windows 7.

 

[phosfiend]

This is my concern as well. I was hoping there was a software fix, as I'm not looking forward to spending 60$-70$ (plus might as well go HDMI, another 15-20$) to replace a perfectly fine videocard.

 

[Fox5]

You could stick with your current operating system. Why replace a perfectly good operating system?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: Fox5
You could stick with your current operating system. Why replace a perfectly good operating system?

:Q OOOOOOOO...good one!

 

[phosfiend]

I'm not really interested in perpetually running a beta OS - and would have held of until October, had the beta not started its continuous reboot annoyance.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: phosfiend
I'm not really interested in perpetually running a beta OS - and would have held of until October, had the beta not started its continuous reboot annoyance.

You had something before 7, yes? Go back to it. Vista or XP.

Or if you don't play games, even Ubuntu is an option, and it'll work just peachy with the x1900.

 

[ViRGE]

You're going to have forcibly override Windows' choice in drivers through the Device Manager. Since AMD isn't making Win7 drivers for the X1900* what you're doing is installing Vista drivers, which means Windows is preferring the Win7 driver that it comes with. Run the installer so that it unpacks the drivers, then point Windows in the right direction.

* Come on guys, the newest X1900 cards are barely 2 years old you cheap asses!

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
You're going to have forcibly override Windows' choice in drivers through the Device Manager. Since AMD isn't making Win7 drivers for the X1900* what you're doing is installing Vista drivers, which means Windows is preferring the Win7 driver that it comes with. Run the installer so that it unpacks the drivers, then point Windows in the right direction.

* Come on guys, the newest X1900 cards are barely 2 years old you cheap asses!

Nvidia Nforce3 owners were screwed over during the change to Vista. There is STILL and never was any plans for a driver for Vista. That was MUCH worse than this. The windows Vista drivers work fine with 7, It just won't have the latest fixes.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: ViRGE
You're going to have forcibly override Windows' choice in drivers through the Device Manager. Since AMD isn't making Win7 drivers for the X1900* what you're doing is installing Vista drivers, which means Windows is preferring the Win7 driver that it comes with. Run the installer so that it unpacks the drivers, then point Windows in the right direction.

* Come on guys, the newest X1900 cards are barely 2 years old you cheap asses!

Nvidia Nforce3 owners were screwed over during the change to Vista. There is STILL and never was any plans for a driver for Vista. That was MUCH worse than this. The windows Vista drivers work fine with 7, It just won't have the latest fixes.

Sure, they work. And if they had official Win7 drivers, I'm sure they'd be the exact same drivers (although I'm left questing whether fixes to things like CCC will be backported). But the fact that you have to finagle with all of this stuff to get it installed is a significant disappointment. I don't believe it to be unreasonable to expect X1K drivers for Win7 that work out of the box.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: phosfiend
I'm thinking (and correct me here if I'm out to lunch) that it has something to do with the drivers win 7 RC is forcing my to use (8.56.1.3 or something, I'm away from the box ATM). I've tried upgrading to 9.3, 9.31 and even 9.6 and none of them take. If I manually point the hardware manager to any of those drivers, win 7 insists that the one it already has installed is better. Is there a way to strongarm win 7 into installing 9.3 or 9.31?

CAT 9.3 officially supports Win7 RC. Which RC build do you have? Did you do a clean/full install? Sounds like something is amiss with your installation or the configuration. I've had no problems installing CAT 9.3 on W7 RC b7100.