Morphos Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Using Vista build 5219 on a A7n8x with an X800XL AGP card I'm having some major problems. Seems that (as a recognized problem) windows assigns the PCI-E driver to the AGP card for this particular video card. The result being either a totally black screen instead of any normal one, or crazy messed up horizontal lines. Work around provided in part by Microsoft and ATI are to boot in VGA mode (safe mode...?) and install the corrected driver. Not a problem, video works in safe mode, and when following the proper procedures, gets all the way to where it *should* prompt you to approve the driver, however, it gives an error at that point, saying- "A problem was encountered when attempting to add the driver to the store." Can't make it work!!! Help anyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggy Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 It looks like you have a ASRock Board with SIS chipset. I have the same problem install the ATI Driver. Maybe it comes from the AGP Driver. The non DLLM Driver works fine (5.8). I have a ATI 7600 pro 256MB. Sorry for my bad English :). doggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Did you read the readme file on the dvd? The AGP X800XL is currently not supported in Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphos Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 Did you read the readme file on the dvd?The AGP X800XL is currently not supported in Vista. 586538101[/snapback] I'm trying to appreciate your help, but we have a problem. Did you *read* my original post, or the readme from Vista? I'll quote it for less confusion. ----"This note applies only to Windows "Longhorn," not Windows Server "Longhorn." The graphic device drivers included in Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 do not support the ATI X700 AGP or X800XL AGP graphics devices. Because the PCI-Express versions of these graphics devices are supported, and the AGP versions have the same device ID, Windows "Longhorn" will attempt to install the PCI-Express version of the driver. This can result in a black display screen on computers with the X700 AGP or the X800XL AGP devices. To work around this problem, start your computer in VGA display mode and install the latest ATI Catalyst XDDM display driver."---- Now then, the workaround they post, in their own readme does not work with the LDDM driver provided on ATI's website. That's why I'm trying to find if anyone here has had luck on their own. Likely not coincidentally, I managed to fiddle around with it enough to figure out that installing the driver portion of Catalyst 5.8 would enable normal booting in Vista, good color depth, and resolution, but is not LDDM. So no glass effects, aero, etc. :edit: For Doggy--The A7N8X is an Asus board on the Nforce platform. Thanks for posting though, any help is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkaterAustin Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 im tryin to figure a way to modify the ati drivers (lddm) to add the product code from 5.8 to the new release of ati beta 1 drivers to make it work, so far i got it to install, it worked! but i get a bsod, and i modified it some more and still bsod so i just went to safe mode and unistalled it and put back vga mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphos Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 Keep us updated, I'd be really interested if this works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphos Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 I'm writing to ATI's tech support via email, and may have a response soon. First response was the standard "The drivers for Vista are a beta release and ATI does not currently offer support or troubleshooting on these drivers." Hopefully it will be escalated to persons better suited to finding a successful conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eadnams Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 BE nice to hear something, I'm sick of the default VGA driver... -ETA I'm writing to ATI's tech support via email, and may have a response soon. First response was the standard "The drivers for Vista are a beta release and ATI does not currently offer support or troubleshooting on these drivers." Hopefully it will be escalated to persons better suited to finding a successful conclusion. 586550238[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakwido Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Very interested in a possible fix for this as well. Spent far too many hours trying to get Glass working on this card. blakwido Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewhaji Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 For what it's worth, I'm having this exact same problem. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one, and I'm glad to know somebody has taken the effort to get ATI in on the problem. Please do post the results of your dialogue with ATI here, I'm dying to figure out how to fix this stupid problem! ...let's just hope that Vista has WORKING ATI LDDM drivers in the final build, otherwise there are going to be a lot of upset and confused ATI owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geris Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 For what it's worth, I'm having this exact same problem. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one, and I'm glad to know somebody has taken the effort to get ATI in on the problem. Please do post the results of your dialogue with ATI here, I'm dying to figure out how to fix this stupid problem!...let's just hope that Vista has WORKING ATI LDDM drivers in the final build, otherwise there are going to be a lot of upset and confused ATI owners. 586653312[/snapback] Try this, it works even on Intel built in video with 64MB! Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DWM] "UseAlternateButtons"=dword:00000000 "Blur"=dword:00000001 "Animations"=dword:00000001 "Glass"=dword:00000001 "AnimationsShiftKey"=dword:00000001 "EnableMachineCheck"=dword:00000000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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