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Does the retail version on Windows 7 finnaly solve those driver probs?

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cjl   10-30-2009 at 10:16:49 AM
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What driver problems? Mine's been running flawlessly since the beta, aside from my X-fi sound card (which has been running flawlessly since the RC).

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anamaniac   10-30-2009 at 12:44:47 PM
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Most of them.
My old webcam doesn't work though...

In the few cases were drivers aren't supported, there are many user modified drivers for a handful of products.

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daship   10-30-2009 at 02:40:11 PM
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If you use relatively new hardware you wont have driver issues. If your using old stuff, then your better off getting new stuff if you want to stay away from issues. Its likely if its to old there will never be no driver.

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jitpublisher   10-30-2009 at 02:40:23 PM
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Drivers are written and supplied by hardware vendors, not Windows.
If you have a device that needs a compatible Windows 7 driver, you must look to the manufacturer of the device to get a driver.

For instance the Creative fiasco with Vista. Those A --holes only decided to write a driver for Vista after months and months of stiff complaints from people who owned Creative products. It's not that the hardware would not work, it only worked with very basic functionality, like a $20 sound card from 15 years ago. A guy released his own hacked version of drivers that allowed people to use their Creative products in Vista with full functionability, but Creative imediately filed suite against him and shut his site down. Finally, a friggin year later they released drivers for Vista.
I swear I'll never buy another Creative product.
Sorry, just had to vent a little, but that whole thing with Creative/Vista and my X-Fi Gamer just really got me bent, as were a lot of people.


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petspaps   10-31-2009 at 01:07:29 AM
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ok, cause i had a driver problem that forced me to revert to xp again. It was a graphics problem so i was hoping that it was taken care of.

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Sateg   10-31-2009 at 01:46:56 AM
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what graphics card do you have?

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petspaps   10-31-2009 at 09:32:30 AM
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HIS Radeon 3650 Agp 512mb 128-bit. And Win 7 would not recognize it for ***. And yes i used the hotfix but that didnt work either.


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jitpublisher   10-31-2009 at 02:01:06 PM
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Could it be something to do with the AGP motherboard?
I don't know for a fact exactly what the problem may be, but AGP technology is kind of, well lets just be honest here, its an outdated thing of the past. I would certainly expect some problems to arise if you are trying to run Windows 7 on something that old. I'd say if you really want to run the very latest software, it really is time to think about upgrading to modern hardware as well.

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Sateg   10-31-2009 at 05:13:38 PM
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You only have to know the id hardware of the graphics card and add it to the .inf file for Windows recognizes it.
Also always load the driver through device manager not the ati catalyst installer.

I made that to use my AH3450 AGP withut problem on Windows 7

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petspaps   11-01-2009 at 04:02:02 AM
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Ok, but i did load it through the device manager, i had installed all other drivers except that one and whenever i tried to install it, the computer would reboot as normal but i would not be able to get any further than the windows loading screen.

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Bronze Win 7 badge Zoron   11-01-2009 at 08:07:58 PM
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That's ATi's fault, not Microsoft's. Try forcing your card's bus speed setting rather than letting it auto-detect.

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petspaps   11-03-2009 at 01:19:57 AM
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Thanks for your help.

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saneto   11-11-2009 at 07:58:06 PM
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Sateg wrote :

You only have to know the id hardware of the graphics card and add it to the .inf file for Windows recognizes it.
Also always load the driver through device manager not the ati catalyst installer.

I made that to use my AH3450 AGP withut problem on Windows 7



Is your AH3450 an AGP card, and if so ... can you tell me the exact way you made it run ... 'cause i'm experiencing quite a big dificulties with mine , windows 7 finds it as a standart VGA ... ok .... but when i instal the drivers manualy and everything seems to be fine the system crushes all of a sudden when i'm using some programs ... not mansioning games ... like autocad , and system message says that video driver stoped responding and has recovered .... it drived me insane every time it did it ... and god it was quite often ... so if any one can tell me somthng about it i'll be gratefull :) and exuse my language

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Rab1d-BDGR   11-12-2009 at 02:35:32 AM
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On the whole, driver support is excellent. Some manufacturers, however, need to book their ideas up. (Sony...)

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Mergatroid   11-15-2009 at 08:21:24 AM
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petspaps wrote :

Well does it?


Apparently not.

I just purchased Win 7 Pro. I was using Win XP Pro (and was perfectly happy with it).

Now, I'm not happy.

Of all things, the intel drivers are not working properly for my main board. I've been all over trying to fix it, and have had no luck. Everything works fine, but I have an unknown device in Device Manager. Figures.

I am going to start a new thread on it and go into detail if I cannot find a pre existing thread.

In short, board is one year old, ASUS, Intel Core2 Duo, nothing installed except a Radeon 4870.

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Bronze Win 7 badge Zoron   11-15-2009 at 10:27:45 PM
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What chipset and where did you download the drivers from?

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