X850 XT install hangs on Win2003

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GearHead

I just got my AGP X850 XT Platinum and I am installing it in Windows 2003.
It goes all the way through to the ATI WDM Setup and then just sits there.

I went to ATI's website to get more recent drivers and the drivers from
March 8th 2006 do the same thing.

Any ides?

Thanks in advance!!
 
Unless things changed recently, ATI didn't support RADEON on Windows 2003.
If you saw the unbelievable Hell I had to go through to get mine to work on
Windows 2003 you would switch brands to nVidia instantly. I finally did
get it to work, but I won't even try to upgrade the video driver in the
future.

It was incredibly short-sighted for ATI to not see that the customers who
use Windows 2003 tend to be less price sensitive, and tend to buy the most
expensive everything, including video cards, because they want the best.
Since Windows 2003 and Windows XP use the same core OS and share the same
drivers, it was some kind of act of mass stupidity for ATI's marketing
department to dismiss that segment so quickly, because it would have taken
only a tiny additional effort to support it.
 
I did not see the hell you went thought, is there a link you care to share?
I will read it!

So what do I do? Dual boot for gaming only?
 
GearHead said:
I just got my AGP X850 XT Platinum and I am installing it in Windows 2003.
It goes all the way through to the ATI WDM Setup and then just sits there.
Click to expand...

What is "Windows 2003"? I have my AIW X800XT working fine with XP Pro SP2
and Vista Build 5308 (no TV yet).

Tom Lake
 
My symptoms were different so I think my advice won't help.

My system permitted the install just fine. Try the oldest version of the
driver you can find. The problem for me because that I could not get the
ATI drivers to see that there was any monitor attached to the computer, and
it was disabling the Device tab definition. I could not therefore go
beyond 1600x1200. To get beyond 1600x1200:

In the full ATI install with ATI Control Panel, there is an extra tab named
"Displays". The settings that you specify there for the monitor are
*independent* of the Display Properties settings that are set by any of:
Display Properties | Settings tab

Display Properties | Advanced | Adapter

Powerstrip

ATI Tray Tools

The resolution on the Displays tab acts as a kind of filter on the Display
Properties resolution. If the Displays tab is set to 1600x1200 and the
Display Properties says 2048x1536, what you end up with is a 2048 x 1536
virtual desktop mapped into a 1600x1200 physical desktop. I don't
understand why they chose to involve the user of a high resolution monitor
into that kind of complexity as a default condition, but they do.

The *default* resolution on the Displays tab is 1600x1200. So when you
exceed this default resolution, you get the virtual mapping effect I
described. It's easy on most of our ATI RADEON installations to just use
Displays to set the maximum resolution as high or higher than you want to go
on Display Properties. Under Windows 2003, the Displays tab has its
Monitor button *greyed out*. So you cannot change the default resolution.

Now, to the good news. If you go to Display Properties | Advanced |
Adapter tab | List All Modes button to explicitly set the resolution, it
invokes a side-effect that will help fix the problem. As a side effect of
setting the

resolution this way, now all of a sudden the Displays tab shows the monitor
button enabled! You are then able to reset the Displays resolution to
higher than the Display Properties, and now everything works fine.
 
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