Driver Issues with Radeon HD 4670 Video Card

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Good morning to all!

Once again, I'm fighting with the media center computer I am trying to build. This fight concerns the system's video card - a HIS IceQ Radeon HD 4670 AGP card featuring 1 Gb GDDR3 VRAM (M/N: H467QS1GHA). In this system's previous incarnation for me, it served for several years as my network server and primary desktop computer. During this time, I never had one iota of trouble with this video card, save for regular annual cleaning (YES! I AM anal like that!). During it's tenure, it ran Windows 7 Ultimate (x86). It has had it's HDD reformatted and loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (x86) and therein lies the trouble (or so I think). You see, for reasons that escape me, the video card referenced above seems to have an affinity for Windows' built-in VGA driver software over it's own AMD/ATI Catalyst software. Yes, the driver software installed was for a 32 bit system, else it would not have loaded at all. No, I cannot upgrade to a 64 bit system because the chipset on the mainboard will not support 64 bits (damnit!).

My main question is: What can I do to 'force' the video card to utilize the manufacturer's driver software versus the operating system's built in driver software (which is inadequate to the work the video card must perform)? I am also quite curious to understand why one version of Windows 7 will work with the video card and it's own software (Ultimate), but another version of the very same operating software (Home Premium) misbehaves badly? Or perhaps I just answered my own question?

Thanks for reading. Looking forward to your answers!
 
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lunyone
There might be some issues with the versions of Win 7 HP and Ultimate, but here is what I found from another post quite a bit ago:

Windows 7 ultimate features that are not given in Windows Home premium:
* XP Mode. This runs a virtual machine on Windows 7, it very literally is like having a dual boot windows xp/windows 7 without the hassle. You could run into driver issues, particularly with graphics, and usb devices.
* BitLocker. This software is useful for encrypting, and lock hard drive partitions.
* Domain Join (Professional version has this aswell). Advanced networking, usually for connecting many computers in an office securely (home premium can do this as well, however it is prone to security issues which could be patched but...
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I don't know what drivers you use but according to AMD 13.9 is the latest for a hd4000 card ?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows%207%20-%2064

Manually Select Your Driver
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download


just as me and this 7850 it called supported under newer drivers but I find the older 13.12 driver works issue free where the 14.xx or above shows to have some kind of issues in some way ??

so I still use the proven tried and true older 13.12 driver for it amd so far everything seems to work well all day

good luck
 
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There might be some issues with the versions of Win 7 HP and Ultimate, but here is what I found from another post quite a bit ago:

Windows 7 ultimate features that are not given in Windows Home premium:
* XP Mode. This runs a virtual machine on Windows 7, it very literally is like having a dual boot windows xp/windows 7 without the hassle. You could run into driver issues, particularly with graphics, and usb devices.
* BitLocker. This software is useful for encrypting, and lock hard drive partitions.
* Domain Join (Professional version has this aswell). Advanced networking, usually for connecting many computers in an office securely (home premium can do this as well, however it is prone to security issues which could be patched but require advanced networking capabilities to implement).
* Backup and Restore. This is a very important feature (professional has it as well) because it saves previous versions of folders, create backup files, as well as restore from backups. This is incredibly useful, I have often messed with some programs to tweak them and caused irreparable harm I used restore previous version to fix them.
* Languages: Speak mandarin? No problem. spanish? No problem. Speak another 33 languages? No problem. These are GUI language packs. Meaning everything inside windows will be translated.

Post was here

Normally I would say you shouldn't have an issue with any version of Win 7, but here you are having issues. Is there any chance that you could put the Ultimate version back on for a trial run and see if anything has changed?
 
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