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Problems with Catalyst 4.4 & 9700 Pro

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Electric Amish

Elite Member
Whenever I install the drivers the only resolution I can get is 640x480 4-bit color.

Uninstall, reinstall. Same thing.

Windows XP keeps detecting the 9700 Pro and installing drivers from 12/03 with no control panel or anything.

I tried going back to 4.3 and still get the same thing.

Anybody have any recommendations?
 
Download driver cleaner. LINKAGE
Install driver cleaner.
Uninstall Radeon drivers.
Reboot into safe mode.
Run driver cleaner and cab cleaner (integrated with driver cleaner).
Disconnect network cable.
Boot into windows normally.
Install Radeon drivers.
Reboot.
Enjoy.

🙂
 
Well, Amish is having driver related problems so it's best to remove all traces of the drivers and start from scratch. It only takes a few minutes to do and will save hours in aggrivation.

Do it Amish... 🙂
 
I've never had a problem before this. I don't know what went wrong this time. 🙂

I had tried Driver/Cab cleaner and I had tried uninstalling in safe mode, but never in the order you suggested.

I'll try it.
 
That's how I installed my Cats when I switched from a FX 5900 to my 9800 Pro. It worked very well for me. Good luck to you.
 
Do you need to reinstall your GART driver by any chance? I tried to "upgrade" my Via GART driver once, borked it, and got the same kind of results. Maybe you could try that next.
 
Originally posted by: Megatomic
Do you need to reinstall your GART driver by any chance? I tried to "upgrade" my Via GART driver once, borked it, and got the same kind of results. Maybe you could try that next.
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I have an Nforce 2 Ultra motherboard. I reinstalled the Nforce drivers, but it still hasn't done any good.
 
I just upgraded my Radeon 9700 pro system to Cat 4.4. No problems !!! I didn't even use driver cleaner. That particular system is an ASUS A7N8X deluxe, Radeon 9700 NP at pro speed, 512 meg Geil PC3200 memory. It is definitely something in your system. Worst case, format and re-install.

Oh, I am running Win2k on that system, may make a difference.
 
Hmm. Honestly, a format/reinstall would be a good idea. A fresh start is a beautiful thing.

Here's what I do (FWIW):

1. Uninstall old drivers and control panel
2. Reboot
3. Run Driver Cleaner2
4. Reboot
5. Install new drivers

I've done this twice on both a W2K and an XP install w/zero probs.

If you are having probs, the registry is probably fuxored beyond repair. Start fresh and live long and prosper and all that jazz. Good luck.

PS
I've had no probs w/the latest ATI Catalyst's either.
 
Turn off your virus scanner when you load the drivers and upon reboot. If you're running anything like Powerstrip, try to shut it down also. Had a similar prob with 4.0 and with 4.4s.
 
I'm having *exactly* the same problem - I found this thread when googling for a solution.

I too have an NForce 2 board (Abit NFS-7 2.0), and have just upgraded from an 8500 to a 9600 (Sapphire Atlantis 256MB non-pro).

The Catalyst 4.1 drivers that XP automatically downloads from windowsupdate.com seem to work fine (apart from not holding the desktop resolution between reboots... it always boots back up into 640x480x32), but as soon as I try to install anything newer (4.2/4.3/4.4) it refuses to change to anything other than 640x480x4 (yes, that's 16 colours, folks)!!

I've run driver cleaners, I've gone through the registry removing ANYTHING remotely ATi-related, but nothing works.

It's interesting that both of us are running ATi on an NForce 2 board... and therefore I suspect that's the cause of the problems. I've tried playing around with the AGP clock rate, aperture, speed (i.e 4x/8x), and fastwrites, but they make no difference.

I should add that as far as Device Manager is concerned, there are no problems with the drivers - they are initialised and working fine. However, ATI's control panel applet pops up an error message on bootup saying something or other about driver initialisation, so clearly all is NOT well.

So I'm stumped, and stuck on 4.1 until a fix is found. I'll try to contact ATi *and* NVidia support to see what they come up with... (or has someone already done that?)
 
Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Since you running WIndows XP.
DO a system restore back to the date you have your old Cat.
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Can't do that - I've got system restore disabled. I've restored from an old disk image though, and it's exactly the same. Haven't tried putting the 8500 back in, and I might try that tomorrow if I have the time, but I suspect it will work perfectly, exactly as it always did.

I don't suppose anyone has any newly leaked NVidia NForce drivers, do they? I'm currently running 3.14 J remix (although I've tried the official 3.13 too, with no change).
 
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