There is a real recall of the ATI Radeon?s due to Driver Problems!

[xcel]

Hi All:

___This was not from ATI but an HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer) internet vendor. Here are the details: Digital Connection issues recall of ATI graphics cards

___Do you think ATI gets it yet?

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net

 

[LuDaCriS66]

<< Although there is nothing technically wrong with the hardware, we have arrived at this decision for a simple reason, driver support. ATI has moved away from being an exclusive manufacturer of their own cards, and have licensed other manufacturer's to build ATI powered cards. We regret to report that we have not found a way to upgradable these cards to the latest drivers available at the ATI site, nor did our distributor have any solution to the dilemma. No equivalent version drivers have been made available, and we feel that the situation is not acceptable from our stand point. >>



It's just OEM cards and cards from other manufacturers... not the ones actually from ATI

 

[Rand]

It's only a small subset of OEM R7500 cards from Digital Connection, with the markings "PN 35-7146-01-SW".
It has nothing to do with flaws in the ATi drivers, it's due to the fact that the installation routine does not recongize Digital Connections OEM cards as being ATi Radeon boards. It has absolutely nothing to do with problems with the drivers, but problems recognizing a small set of DC's OEM cards properly.

 

[xcel]

Hi Rand and LuDaCriss66:

___Like I mentioned above: There is a recall due to Radeon Driver problems. Subset or not, there is a recall. Nvidia doesn?t work this way, do they? What if Nvidia announced that they are not allowing driver updates for the LeadTek WinFast Ti500 to the 27.20?s but if you own the VisionTek, you are in luck. Even DELL based GeForce?s are reference driver upgradeable in my experience ... ATI is heading towards this type of business model and for them to drop support for OEM cards would be problematic for a lot of Radeon owners IMO ?

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net[/email]

 

[AA0]

I don't think its ATIs fault, Its most likely the fault of the 3rd party that made the cards. If someone made a card improperly for nvidia aswell, it could happen to them.

Its probably something like the card won't ID properly, thats why the install won't work.

 

[rbV5]

<< ___Like I mentioned above: There is a recall due to Radeon Driver problems >>



Incorrect, as Rand explained, this is the installation Routine does not recognize the cards as being Radeon cards. Simple as that, ATI isn't not allowing driver updates, it should be(and is) the OEM manufacterer's responsibility to make sure their cards can be recognised by the install routine, not the other way around.



<< Nvidia doesn?t work this way, do they? >>



Ever try to enable video-out on some nVidia chipped boards....?

 

[chickendinner]

oh, i was hoping it was the 8500 card

 

[Rand]

<< Hi Rand and LuDaCriss66:

___Like I mentioned above: There is a recall due to Radeon Driver problems. Subset or not, there is a recall. >>



Check out your own link, they said right there that is has NOTHING to do with bugs in ATi's Radeon drivers, it's merely the fact that the driver installation process does not properly recognize the card as being an ATi Radeon board and so you can't update the drivers.
That has nothing to do with ATi at all, it's the OEM's problem that their cards don't follow the ID specifications put forth by ATi, typically a graphics card BIOS shoud fix that but evidently it doesnt in this case.