radeon 9550 - advertised driver not on CD!

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I've just been trying to get a radeon 9550 installed under Windows NT4 (as card
was advertised as having drivers for NT4). The CD as supplied with the card
starts up ok and offers an option for "Install NT4 driver", but after a bit of
fancy graphics, comes up with "INF error Video driver not found"! Not exactly an
impressive product so far :-( So now I'm left with a card I can't use. Can
someone please tell me where I can get a driver for the 9550 for NT4? I've been
looking around the web for ages and nearest I've come is drivers for 9000.
Any help much appreciated.
 
I don't think you can, I don't believe ATi support the use of any thing
later than the 7000 series cards on NT4. In which case your should express
your annoyance to the supplier and chase them for a refund!

CrimsonLiar
 
mike said:
I've just been trying to get a radeon 9550 installed under Windows NT4 (as card
was advertised as having drivers for NT4). The CD as supplied with the card
starts up ok and offers an option for "Install NT4 driver", but after a bit of
fancy graphics, comes up with "INF error Video driver not found"! Not exactly an
impressive product so far :-( So now I'm left with a card I can't use. Can
someone please tell me where I can get a driver for the 9550 for NT4? I've been
looking around the web for ages and nearest I've come is drivers for 9000.
Any help much appreciated.
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So, what does ATI say about it? You did ask someone there didn't you? You
might consider downloading a driver from ATI's site -- they seem to have
drivers for everything I've ever looked for. Failing that, other
manufacturers make 9550 cards and there is a good chance that one of their
websites will have the requisite driver.
 
So, what does ATI say about it? You did ask someone there didn't you?
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Yes I asked Msoft something once too! You do know many of these manufactures
don't actually reply don't you? Maybe ATI are different so I'm not saying they
are good or bad in this respect - but as rule I can't afford to wait 3 weeks for
an emailed boilerplate reply. Hence my posting to this ng to guys who know this
stuff.

Anyway, the point is *their* CDR, packaged with the card HAS an option that says
"load NT4 drivers" - but the drivers aren't there (on the CD). I can't say it
clearer than that.

You
might consider downloading a driver from ATI's site -- they seem to have
drivers for everything I've ever looked for. Failing that, other
manufacturers make 9550 cards and there is a good chance that one of their
websites will have the requisite driver.
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ok thanks will try looking further.
 
" Can someone please tell me where I can get a driver for the 9550 for NT4?
I've been looking around the web for ages and nearest I've come is drivers
for 9000. Any help much appreciated. "


If you go to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html , you will see that they
do not have NT drivers for anything above the 7500. I'm guessing that's
your limit.
 
I also have a 9550 in a computer here at work. The ATI installation CD does
have document files that state that the drivers for NT 4 are on the CD.
However, there is no NT inf for the card, and I also cannot find any NT
drivers labelled as such. Have you followed the installation information in
the DOC/Instl_NT.doc file? If their directions don't work, then take it up
with ATI.
 
PhxGrunge said:
I also have a 9550 in a computer here at work. The ATI installation CD does
have document files that state that the drivers for NT 4 are on the CD.
However, there is no NT inf for the card, and I also cannot find any NT
drivers labelled as such. Have you followed the installation information in
the DOC/Instl_NT.doc file? If their directions don't work, then take it up
with ATI.
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Have you tried using the WindowsXP drivers? FYI Windows 2000 and XP were
built from the NT kernel(operating system core). You need pure 32bit
drivers, either will fit the bill. You do realize that NT4 has no plug
and play capability so you would have to find them for yourself.
 
Have you tried using the WindowsXP drivers? FYI Windows 2000 and XP were
built from the NT kernel(operating system core). You need pure 32bit
drivers, either will fit the bill. You do realize that NT4 has no plug
and play capability so you would have to find them for yourself.
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Thanks all for your help. I found a site that seemed to offer some hope
at

http://www.ntcompatible.com/story33723.html

It' a large download at 20Mb - but "seemed" to all the right things and
installed what I thought was a driver along the way. However, it then failed
with a "EnumDisplaySettingsExA not found in user32.dll" (big sigh)

So to day I've been trying to check if I have the latest user32.dll for NT4 -
which I probably do as it NT4 sp6. If so, that's another dead-end.

Tim, you say I could try using "Windows 2000 drivers - could you please
elaborate on how I would go about doing that? (A can borrow a Windows 2000
machine.
Thanks
 
mike said:
Thanks all for your help. I found a site that seemed to offer some hope
at

http://www.ntcompatible.com/story33723.html

It' a large download at 20Mb - but "seemed" to all the right things and
installed what I thought was a driver along the way. However, it then failed
with a "EnumDisplaySettingsExA not found in user32.dll" (big sigh)

So to day I've been trying to check if I have the latest user32.dll for NT4 -
which I probably do as it NT4 sp6. If so, that's another dead-end.

Tim, you say I could try using "Windows 2000 drivers - could you please
elaborate on how I would go about doing that? (A can borrow a Windows 2000
machine.
Thanks
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You have to browse the disc and find the setup programme, presumably in
the Windows2000 folder and run the setup.exe from there. NT4 was always
a bitch to install new hardware on so don't feel that it's just you.
 
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