Have ATI 9250 from H.I.S. Can I use Catalyst 8.3?

[DaveR]

Hello all:

I have an H.I.S ATI Radeon 9250 AGP card in an older system that is using dual monitors. I installed it a few Months ago and it works OK on a 22" Wide LCD (main DVI) and 19" NEC CRT. The issue is that sometimes when Windows XP starts, the LCD does not come up. I know it is a driver issue as it does have a display as it is booting. A reboot fixes it every time, but I have to crash the system as the main display is blank. It was suggested by H.I.S. that I remove the drivers and Catalyst software that they shipped with the card (downlevel I am sure) )and download/install the latest from the AMD/ATI site.

I see several versions that can be considered the latest. This is NOT a system used for games at all.

I see

8-3_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_59746.exe
and
6-11-pre-r300_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_38185.exe


Will both of these support the Radeon 9250 AGP card? I see the 8-3 was updated a few weeks ago but the 6-11 is several years old!

TIA

 

[Sylvanas]

Okay first youll want to navigate to C:/ATI/Setup.exe start that and select 'uninstall' when prompted. It will perform the Uninstall and ask to reboot. Upon reboot run this app once and that will remove ALL traces of previous drivers on your system. Then go here and follow the links to the recommended driver (XP 32 for a 9250 appears to be the 6.11 driver).

 

[DaveR]

Thank you.

First, I do not have a setup in an ATI dir. However, the link to ATI does show an uninstall procedure. It just means I go to the Control Panel and from add/remove programs I uninstall from there.

I do believe that the file named 6-11-pre-r300_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_38185.exe

is what ATI/AMD suggests for my card.

Also, do I use GuRu3D with the installer?

Thank you again, and I assume the best thing for me to do is to not preserve my old-downlevel setup info...just kill it all and restart.

TIA

 

[Sylvanas]

So you already have the 6.11's installed from a while back and are just reinstalling the 6.11 driver set? First use the uninstaller from control panel, thats fine....reboot back into windows....it will try and install a microsoft driver thats okay- once thats done, run a sweep of Guru3d Driversweeper then reboot and install the ATI package from their site.

 

[DaveR]

No, I do not have 6.11 installed. What I do have installed is a lower level than that. It came from H.I.S and I want to remove that one and install the new 6.11 package I got from ATI.

Should I get the exe's on driversweeper or the package with the install program. They do suggest that after I remove the old ATI stuff I boot in safe mode to run driversweeper to be sure I got it all.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: DaveR
No, I do not have 6.11 installed. What I do have installed is a lower level than that. It came from H.I.S and I want to remove that one and install the new 6.11 package I got from ATI.

Should I get the exe's on driversweeper or the package with the install program. They do suggest that after I remove the old ATI stuff I boot in safe mode to run driversweeper to be sure I got it all.

Indeed you can boot into safe mode if you want but I find it works fine in a normal windows environment anyway. What do you mean the exe's on Driversweeper? One sweep will remove all registry values and software installed in relation to the ATI display driver.

 

[DaveR]

What I meant was that they give you the choice of downloading two versions of driversweeper.
1. The binary exe's
2. the package with the installer.

That's all.

I hope this fixes the issue. It is on my wifes system and you do not want to go anywhere near it!!

 

[Sylvanas]

Indeed . Go with the package and installer and use that.

 

[DaveR]

OK, will try it. I am sure it is the drivers as it starts to boot and all is OK. When XP starts to come up and load the drivers, the secondary CRT display comes up and the primary has gone dark. Nothing will bring it up except a reboot. This happens about once or twice a week. Otherwise all is OK.

I am going to start Acronis True Image now to do a full image backup before I do this...cover me, I'm goin in!

 

[DaveR]

DONE. When I did the reboot, I did cancel the option to let MS give me a driver. This, of course, went away once I installed the Catalyst 6.11 package. One thing I thought I saw was a quick screen saying it needed Net Framework 2.0. And wanted that installed. I have ver 1.1 and the ATI software continued anyway. If I have this blank monitor 1 issue again I can try upgrading to netframework 2.0.

OH, Driversweeper got rid of a lot of ATI stuff and some nvidia stuff from the old card.

Thank you again.