Notebook video Ati Radeon xpress 200m

[krose]

I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook with a Celeron M 390, the chipset is the Radeon xpress 200M. It came with Windows XP Home and the usual assortment of pre-installed crap which I detest. The recovery DVD does not allow for a plain Windows install, so I decided to install Windows 2000 Pro. I successfully installed Win2K SP4 slipstreamed with all the post-SP4 updates and located the device drivers on the DVD for the wireless, touchpad, and chipset. The wireless works fine (it was always dropping out on XP) but when I try to install the Ati graphics driver, upon reboot I get a blank display in Windows (POST screen is fine) like the driver is not loading. I tried using both the setup application and the .inf method with the same result. The driver is for Win2K and XP. DX9 is installed, as is DotNet framework which is required for the Ati control panel. Ironically I had the same problem once with a Radeon 9600 Pro AGP card in my desktop. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Download the most recent driver from ATI?

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Check out the sff/notebook forum, someone posted a link to the a mobility catalyst 6.8 download. Whether or not your chipset is supported i'm unsure of.

 

[krose]

I've tried several drivers. I usually use an unattended install CD and I tried installing the drivers that way and it always hangs at the end of the "Windows is detecting your hardware" screen when the video drivers are being installed. If I try to install the drivers post-Windows install, the install works but after rebooting the screen goes black after the Windows logo screen loads when the "setting up network connections" screen should be visible. The laptop just locks up. I found a setup text file on the restore DVD that seems to specify what software gets installed, so I am going to copy the DVD to a hard drive and uncomment the crap I don't want in that file, reburn it and try that. Still, I am not fond of Windows XP Home, as an OS it basically sux, but hey the laptop was only $479 AR

Edit: checked out the new driver, it is only for XP.