ATi Graphics Driver Not Working In Vista (5384)...

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Here is what i could figure out:

both Vista and ATI Drivers won't work. The ATI Driver won't even install
itself, it's only possible when doing it manually. The Reason seams to be
that the Installer doesn't recognize the Card.

What worked for me:
Latest Win XP Drivers. But only with "update drivers", "look for them
manually" and select "Have a Disk" (!) giving Vista the inf.
What also worked was the Driver shipped with the Card from Sapphire.

What also might work could be a complete uninstall of all ATI Drivers (look
at the ATI HP for making the correct Registry changes) and then make a clean
install. Haven't tried this yet.
 
I have a AGP X800XTPE running on an Asrock 939dual motherboard and I am
having the same problem.

Now it could be that I need special motherboard drivers (As it is a DUAL
AGP/ PCI-E board) but there are none on Asrock site yet) to get the AGP side
working correctly, but knowing ATI it is more likely to be them!
 
I have an AGP X800XTPE (UK) and also have this problem.

The ATI log did mention something about default language, so I tried
switching to US instead of UK still no joy..

It could be my Motherboard requires special drivers for AGP (It's a Asrock
939Dual AGP + PCI-E board)
 
I have same problem with my Radeon 9550, using latest Vista drivers from ATI.
Says the device has problems and cannot start.
 
I have had the same problems to with my 9800PRO. I used the XP drivers as
suggested elsewhere in the replies and got a useable interface, but no AGP
acceleration at all, so no Glass interface and no games (not a problem).

The drivers for Vista on ATI's site are for a previous version of Vista, not
the current 5384 build. I tried them as well, with no luck and the dreaded
code 43.

The original Microsoft supplied driver with build 5384 also didnt load with
code 43.

Someone mentioned the 939DUAL-SATA2 Asrock motherboard. I'm using one of
these and I noticed that Beta 5384 is supplied with the required ULI AGP v3
driver required to make AGP cards work with the chipset. I also tried
replacing this with the latest ULI driver from their website. This made no
difference at all.

I have filled in both ATI's reports and Microsofts feedback reports on this
and I await a solution to the problem. In the meantime I'm downloading (very
slowly) the 64bit version of Beta 5384 to see if that is any better and
hoping that someone comes up with a working solution very soon as until they
do (unless the 64bit version works) I'm going back to XP, until its fixed.
 
I issued a ticket to ati and got the usual junk response that this is beta
drivers and they don't provide support and a link to file a report to their
feedback but the page will not load when I went there. I am betting this is
just an issue of the drivers not working for this particular version of Vista
and they are probably getting ready to issue the new version.
 
My Radeon 9600 Pro didn't work (kept getting "code 43" error messages).
I think I've solved it by following the Vista device and software report,
which I ran before installation and totally ignored!
Basically, it gave me a list of drivers that would be required, the upshot
being that "generic" ATI card drivers were included and any further ATI
driver upgrades/control panel installations proved to be unneccessary
(initially, I made the mistake of downloading and installing all available
drivers from various websites).
Try trusting the included drivers!!!
One "clean install" later, and everything's fine (so far!!!).
 
Hi. I used to have this problem. The solution that worked for me was the
following:

Background: My motherboard has a nforce 2 chipset (Abit nfs-7 v2?). I tried
installing the chipset-drivers for win-xp. This installation failed halfway
through. Still, the device manager showed that most system drivers were
installed.

The solution involved replacing the "nforce memory controller" drivers and
the "nforce AGP host to pci bridge"-driver with the standard drivers supplied
by microsoft.
"Update Driver Software" -> "Browse my computer for driver software" -> "Let
me pick from a list..." Then choose a standard driver, or at least one
supplied by microsoft. I did update both these drivers before rebooting so I
am not sure both drivers were to blame. Perhapes using a standard driver for
"nforce AGP host to pci bridge" is sufficient?

All these drivers are listed as "System devices" in the device manager.

Hope this is useful for someone,
Ivar P
 
Hi. I used to have this problem. The solution that worked for me was the
following:

Background: My motherboard has a nforce 2 chipset (Abit nfs-7 v2?). I tried
installing the chipset-drivers for win-xp. This installation failed halfway
through. Still, the device manager showed that most system drivers were
installed.

The solution involved replacing the "nforce memory controller" drivers and
the "nforce AGP host to pci bridge"-driver with the standard drivers supplied
by microsoft.
"Update Driver Software" -> "Browse my computer for driver software" -> "Let
me pick from a list..." Then choose a standard driver, or at least one
supplied by microsoft. I did update both these drivers before rebooting so I
am not sure both drivers were to blame. Perhapes using a standard driver for
"nforce AGP host to pci bridge" is sufficient?

All these drivers are listed as "System devices" in the device manager.

Hope this is useful for someone,
Ivar P
 
Same problem here... I have a 512 X1600XT Pro AGP however.

It may have something to do with us being unable to connect to the internet
however... does anyone know if ATI is releasing a version that does not
require webacess?
 
Same problem here... I have a 512 X1600XT Pro AGP however.

It may have something to do with us being unable to connect to the internet
however... does anyone know if ATI is releasing a version that does not
require webacess?
 
Julian said:
I have had the same problems to with my 9800PRO. I used the XP drivers as
suggested elsewhere in the replies and got a useable interface, but no AGP
acceleration at all, so no Glass interface and no games (not a problem).
Click to expand...

I installed Vista Beta 2 on an Asus P4V800D-X (VIA PT880 Ultra) with a
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB - and the computer nearly froze, both with the
driver installed by Vista and the driver for Beta 2 downloaded from
the ATI website.
Same Experience on that machine with a Radeon X1300 PCIe.

So I put the 9800pro into a machine with Asus K8N-E deluxe (nForce3)
and Vista runs smoothly, with Aero/Glass, with the ATI driver 7.7.9.0
(04-26-2006) provided by Vista - and the 9800pro is shown in the
device manager as WDDM.
The drivers for Vista on ATI's site are for a previous version of Vista, not
the current 5384 build. I tried them as well, with no luck and the dreaded
code 43.
Click to expand...

You will find the "Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista Beta 2" on

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712

...
Click to expand...


Roy
 
Roy Coorne said:
You will find the "Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista Beta 2" on

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712
Click to expand...


I tried the driver for the ati mobility x700 from the ati website. I
installed it , but after the installation it said that the installation had
not been successfully and gave me code 43.
Im running Bulid 5384 x64, ati mobility radeon x700, Amd mobile athlon 64
4000+

I read a while in the forum, but i didnt find a possible solution formy
card. I also tried to update the driver via the integrated driver wizard of
vista (right click in device manager on the device you wanna install, then
update driver)

leo333
 
Same here with a Sapphire x800 Pro 256MB.

I manually installed the latest XP drivers and it worked fine (ie, there was
no more error and I was able to set the correct screen resolution) but with a
noticable drop of stability (LOTS of freezes) and without Glass interface . I
also tried the Omega XP drivers, they worked better but made Vista crashed at
shutdown (or restart).

One thing I have to say, I did the whole install in safe Mode otherwise it
ALWAYS hung at ~96% of the "Expading files" step.
 
Same Problem with both an x800xt (256mb ram) and a mobility 9700 (64mb ram).
This is with both microsoft default, and ATI vista drivers.
 
Hi everyone! Temporary fix I was able to come up with!

Use the NON-WDDsomethingsomething drivers! Dont get me wrong, there are
still issues, but I was at least able to get things looking right, the only
issue i have now is if i try to open an image through Explorer directly, i
get a page fault in non paged area bluescreen. Anywayz, there are ways of
getting around that (you all can probably figure that out) but anyways just
right click on the device in device manager, hit update driver, select manual
install, then hit the "choose the driver from the list yourself"
button/pane/panel/thing (u know what i mean) and you will see a list of the
ATI drivers. I had 4 on my machine, 3 old ones and then the
Catalyst/WDDthing(YES CATALYST AND THE WDDTHING ARE THE SAME DRIVER) I chose
the 2nd from the top. And NO MORE ERROR 43! YAY! But yeah the catalyst
thing is not even CLOSE to being a beta it is so bugged up. (Not to mention
it has a date stamp saying its from the future...a time traveling device
driver...creepy O.o) So dont bother downloading or trying to install it. It
bluescreened my machine when i tried to. >.<
 
i too have the same problem (code 43) with my x850 pro.

running with an asus p4s8x-x motherboard and intel 2.4 ghz cpu


installed all new drivers from ati, tried solutions presented here, yada,
yada, yada..
 
I tried everything described above,
nothing worked,

so i started playing around with a all my bios settings,
and suddenly it worked,
i don't know the specific setting (changed quite a lot)
but it should work, by playing with your settings,

gl with it
 
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