XP drivers for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

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I have just installed Windows XP on a laptop that was originally made to run
Vista (a Dell Studio 1537). Obviously the official drivers were no use, so
I have had to find suitable XP versions. All of the important components
are now working fine, apart from the graphics card.

The card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. Unfortunately there are no XP
drivers for it either on the Dell site, nor on the AMD site. But after some
searching I found something that looks promising here:
http://downloadnew.org/drivers/grap...ries-driver-856300-download-110816.html#dlink

After downloading and unzipping, this turned out to be Catalyst, although I
cannot tell which version it is. It won't install though. It keeps
displaying messages like "Install Manager failed to initialize".

I am not sure what to try next. Any suggestions would be welcome.
 
Kev said:
I have just installed Windows XP on a laptop that was originally made to
run Vista (a Dell Studio 1537). Obviously the official drivers were no
use, so I have had to find suitable XP versions. All of the important
components are now working fine, apart from the graphics card.

The card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. Unfortunately there are no XP
drivers for it either on the Dell site, nor on the AMD site. But after
some searching I found something that looks promising here:
http://downloadnew.org/drivers/grap...ries-driver-856300-download-110816.html#dlink

After downloading and unzipping, this turned out to be Catalyst, although
I cannot tell which version it is. It won't install though. It keeps
displaying messages like "Install Manager failed to initialize".

I am not sure what to try next. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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Have you tried downloading the latest Catalyst Version 10.6 Display Driver
for Windows XP Professional from AMD's web site?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

Read the Release notes about AMD Mobility Product Support. The ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 3400 Series is listed as a supported product.
 
Have you tried downloading the latest Catalyst Version 10.6 Display Driver
for Windows XP Professional from AMD's web site?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

Read the Release notes about AMD Mobility Product Support. The ATI
Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series is listed as a supported product.
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OK, I have installed this, but what is it meant to do? There are no new
shortcuts in the start menu and the graphics card is still not showing up in
Device Manager.
 
Perhaps the motherboard has built in video that needs to be turned off in
BIOS? for the add on card to become active?

The device manager should show something concerning whatever video chip or
card is currently active.

The video driver install log should show that the install process detected
the added video card and other details, assuming it actually ran properly.

An add on video card generally shows up as a "generic" video card/chip
when the default video drivers are in use. These drivers are usually part
of windows, and have Microsoft listed as the originator.

A bad card may cause results similar to those you mentioned.
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There is nothing in the BIOS to indicate the presence of built-in video.

Here is a screenshot of Device Manager:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zeniths/misc/Screenshot_DeviceManager.gif
 
Perhaps the motherboard has built in video that needs to be turned off in
BIOS? for the add on card to become active?

The device manager should show something concerning whatever video chip or
card is currently active.

The video driver install log should show that the install process detected
the added video card and other details, assuming it actually ran properly.

An add on video card generally shows up as a "generic" video card/chip
when the default video drivers are in use. These drivers are usually part
of windows, and have Microsoft listed as the originator.

A bad card may cause results similar to those you mentioned.
Click to expand...

There is nothing in the BIOS to indicate the presence of built-in video.

Here is a screenshot of Device Manager:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zeniths/misc/Screenshot_DeviceManager.gif
 
Kev said:
There is nothing in the BIOS to indicate the presence of built-in video.

Here is a screenshot of Device Manager:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zeniths/misc/Screenshot_DeviceManager.gif
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I don't know if you've installed the Intel GM45 Express Chipset Family
driver, but it should resolve the PCI Device, SM Bus Controller, and Unknown
device under Other devices.

The driver is available at Dell's web site under Windows Vista 32-bit,
Chipset category, for the Studio Laptop 1537. This same 32-bit driver is
also used for Windows XP.

Here's the link but it will most likely be split over more than one line in
your mail/news reader so just join the lines together to get the complete
URL:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=265073
 
Kev said:
I have just installed Windows XP on a laptop that was originally made to
run Vista (a Dell Studio 1537). Obviously the official drivers were no
use, so I have had to find suitable XP versions. All of the important
components are now working fine, apart from the graphics card.

The card is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. Unfortunately there are no XP
drivers for it either on the Dell site, nor on the AMD site. But after
some searching I found something that looks promising here:
http://downloadnew.org/drivers/grap...ries-driver-856300-download-110816.html#dlink

After downloading and unzipping, this turned out to be Catalyst, although
I cannot tell which version it is. It won't install though. It keeps
displaying messages like "Install Manager failed to initialize".

I am not sure what to try next. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Click to expand...

Someone has posted a 32-bit Windows XP Drivers Package for the Dell Studio
1537 here:

http://www.samsware.com/Downloads/1537_XP_32_Drivers.rar
 
Thanks for all the responses. I have been given plenty of ideas here.
Unfortunately I have not had any spare time to spend on this recently.
Hopefully next week...
 
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