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MrBig0
replyRE: Windows 7, FUUUUU
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Got my copy of Windows 7 via House Party kit. Installed it, all was well and good until I tried to install ATI drivers. ATI apparently has discontinued releasing drivers for "legacy" products.
I run a 4870 and an x1950xt for three displays. The 4870 is supported by their new drivers, but the x1950 is only supported by the legacy drivers. So I installed the new drivers with the new Control Center and then installed the legacy drivers for the other card. Worked good until I rebooted, at which time it bluescreened.
I removed all the drivers and installed only the legacy drivers which do support both cards. This means I can't update my drivers in the future without ditching the x1950. ...And this seemed to work alright until I tried playing h.264 files. No dice, video displays in bands: http://www.shackpics.com/files/gkill_957yyvpqn0ykuvslqayk.jpg
I've also gotten a few display driver crashes while running media player also, most notibly when I tried to wake the pc from sleep mode, it looped display driver crashes until it bluescreened.
Any advice you helpful, lovely people? <3-
I had the same thing happen. Turns out my Intel motherboard was being a pain in the ass.
http://www.romsteady.net/blog/2009/09/workaround-catalyst-9-drivers-blue.html-
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When I was installing Catalyst 8.x drivers on Vista 32, I had gotten some blue screens on occasion. I looked up the blue screen cods and they were all about USB devices causing the issue.
I remembered it after unsuccessfully trying to install Catalyst 9.7 and 9.8 and after 9.9 blue screened as well, I unplugged all of my USB devices, ran the installer and it worked. -
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There might be modified drivers that include the x1950 to the supported list.
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Man, the last thing I want to hear about windows 7 is "incompatability, and crashes" - I wish I could help out but how new is Windows 7 anyway? I haven't even seen it's beta, but I'm pretty much an XP and Vista user.
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I just bought a brand new 4850 and while I've been very happy with the performance the one thing that I've been disappointed in is the feature set and the instability. Though perhaps that because I changed hardware configuration in the middle of a Windows install and its a bit confused.
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Doesn't sound very smart IMO, a good selling point for cards is longevity.
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To me, is sounds like you just need to replace that x1950 with a newer card. really will spending $40 on a 4xxx card mater tha much. Its not worth the trouble.
Just put something like this and the problem is solved: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=36019&vpn=AX3450%20512MD2-H&manufacture=PowerColor
As soon as its deemed legacy, just drop it or use it on its own. -
DAAMIT!
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I had the same / similar problem with Vista and NVIDIA drivers. I tried to use a newer NVIDIA card for my two primary displays, and an older NVIDIA carder for a third display. Because of the windows display driver model introduced in vista, vista wouldn't have anything to do with it. NVIDIA didn't support the old nvidia card in their newest drivers, but they released a driver specifically for the old card in vista, and of course that driver didn't support the new card.
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i'm running Windows 7 x64 ultimate RTM w/ three LCDs. had a similar problem w/ 9800GT main video and an nVidia PCI video card for the third monitor.
ended up ditching the PCI video completely and getting this: http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=100-U2-UV12-A1&family=USB to drive the 3rd LCD.
now i don't have to worry about tying the two video cards together. i can upgrade my main video card to anything i want and still retain triple LCDs.
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