MS Office 2003: no problem Photoshop: not good. Skype: perfect Firefox and Thunderbird: both have hugely enlarged graphics elements that chew up my screen real estate. A warning to that effect came up during installation, when it said the resolution was too low. Here's what happens with apps I have installed so far: Google Earth: effectively useless. But I get the lower resolution for icons and text that are effectively bitmaps. I'm getting the correct resolution of 1680 x 1050 for the overall full-screen window and stuff within that window that is effectively vector graphics. Effectively I'm getting both 1680 x 1050 plus a much lower resolution (could be 800圆00) all at the same time. And I'm nominally getting the correct 1680 x 1050 resolution.
I managed to get the ATI X1300 card finally seen, and the driver installed.
What should I do? What would happen if I simply carried on with the driver install routine on the window that comes up after running the ATI generic driver file in the first place? The last thing I want to do is stuff things up so I can't even opt to revert the XP on the laptop - I really want to stay with Windows 7 if at all possible. I'm reluctant to try either of them anyway, because they would not be updating an ATI driver, according to my computer. if I go to your steps 4 and 5 and and attempt to install the ATI driver anyway, I end up with two INF files and I have no idea which I should choose. I ran 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe anyway, to place the files in a C:\ATI folder. 'Generic PnP Monitor' shows up instead of an ATI model in the top of each window where, in your screenshots I see the words 'Update Driver Software - ATI Radeon X1200 Series'.
While your Device Manager at least detected an ATI card you could work with in the driver update process, my Device Manager only sees 'Generic PnP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter', with the driver file listed as C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERs\monitor.sys I'm not sure if I can update that driver if it is for 'Generic PnP Monitor' and not my 'ATI Mobility Radeon X1300'. I was going to follow your solution in the screenshots above, but I have a problem. First I downloaded 9-11_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe (now 9-11, rather than 9-8 as in the examples in this thread). Hi Peter - I have an issue with the ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 video card in my Acer Travelmate 6460 after having loaded Windows 7. That driver that Windows 7 puts out for these cards is garbage.
Go through the normal setup options and the right drivers should be installed.
3) Run Mobility Modder, click Browse, locate the folder mentioned above, and click Modify (this will mod the driver files so that they will install on your machine) 4) Close Mobility Modder, open up Windows Explorer, go to that mentioned folder and run Setup.exe. 2) Download Mobility Modder, unzip, and install the program. Use the tool Mobility Modder (found at this link ) 1) Since you have already attempted to install the 9.8 Legacy drivers, and failed, the extracted files will still be on your computer (Default is c:\ati\support\9-8_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc). If that works, great! If not, here is what you may have to do that should work, it worked perfectly for me running the x1400 on Windows 7 RTM just a few days ago, and is a great tool to use for these cards. See if it says that the installation can proceed or not, giving you the driver 8.593.100. Thanks, Creer Once you download the 9-8_legacy_vista_32-64 driver you should run the installation. exe package? In which software? I have tried 7-zip but it doesn't work.
On official AMD website the latest driver is 9.8: I also found other threads from people who has had problems with Hibernation because of this issue with graphic driver on Windows 7: and still no solution? TIA, Peter Driver Date 2009 March 10 Driver Version: 8.56.1.13 Digital Digner: Microsoft Windows My system specification: CPU: AMD x2 64 5000+ (2.6MHz) 2 GB RAM MOBO: Asus M2A-VM (with integrated Radeon X1250 graphic card) OS: Windows 7 RC (7100) 32-bit Unfortunatelly I can't install new driver from ATI because Windows 7 automatically install own mentioned above 8.56.1.13 driver, I can't upgrade to newest because Windows says that the installed driver is the newest but it's not true. driver more details: ATI Radeon X1200 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) Driver Provider: ATI Technologies Inc. Probably this issue is caused by latest MS WDDM ATI Radeon X1200 S. When I waking my PC from hibernation, it logs in fine but after a minute or two, it freezes forcing me to hold down the power button to shut it off. Hi, I noticed issue with hibernation in Windows 7.