Troubles installing drivers for ATI 4670 (mobility)

[crumble114]

I have been having troubles installing drivers for the ATI 4670. I tried using Mobility Modder to install the latest drivers but I keep getting the error:
'Driver Install: The INF file was not found'
Any ideas? As I currently have no drivers on my Laptop and therefore cannot play games on it which kinda sucks.
My Laptop is a DELL Studio XPS 1640 btw.
Thanks a lot.

 

[godless]

can't you manually download the drivers directly from amd/ati website? or at least the latest from dell.

 

[crumble114]

'Driver Install: The INF file was not found'

I get this error whatever way I try to download them.

 

[godless]

then don't use the mobility modder software. just visit the amd website and get it directly from them.

 

[crumble114]

You don't get it. AMD has stopped developing newer mobility drivers so you have to use the Mobility Modder Software to mod the desktop drivers to be able to work on laptops, otherwise you're stuck with 3 year old drivers.

 

[rangers]

so what your saying is ATI offers you 3Yold drivers for a card thats not even a year old, you do know how that sounds

 

[rangers]

try to use the radeon drivers for the 4670 not the mobility drivers

 

[godless]

strangely enough i can only find the windows 7 beta drivers for mobility 46xx cards. whcih os do you need?

 

[crumble114]

It was sarcasm rangers
Only the mobility drivers work for the mobility cards.
I need Vista 64 preferably, but Vista 32 is fine if no 64.

 

[rangers]

did you try the radeon drivers?

 

[crumble114]

Yes.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

[:thegreatgrapeape:2]

 

[crumble114]

Bump.
None of the above posters have understood my problem yet.
Please help!

 

[crumble114]

Bump.

 

[mindless728]

well, you could download the newest catalyst for desktops and mod the inf file to add your card (should use the same driver as the desktop 4670)

i hope you know how to do this

 

[crumble114]

I have no idea how to mod the inf file to add my card.
Could you tell me please?

 

[mindless728]

give a few minutes, it takes a little while to type

 

[crumble114]

Okay, thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

 

[mindless728]

okay here are the steps

1) download the newest driver for the non-mobility 4600 series (ie catalyst 9.8)
2) start the installer, when it is done extracting cancel the setup (as it would not find you drivers anyways)
3) go to directory "C:\ATI\Support\9-8_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu\Driver\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF"
4) open CH_85216.inf in notepad
5) under the [ATI.Mfg.NTamd64.6.0] (the one with all of the video card names) add "ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 4670" = ati2mtag_R7X, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9490"
6) go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management
7) go to Device Managemer, find the display adapter
8) right click->update driver
9) click browse my computer for driver software
10) choose let me pick from a list
11) click have disc
12) change path to "C:\ATI\Support\9-8_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu\Driver\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF"
13) hope to hell your display adapter is there and works and click ok

now this worked for the old mobility radeons (Xk series and X1k series, might work for yours)

 

[mindless728]

also you may want to check the PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9490 is right in device manager before you edit the file

1) control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management
2) device manager
3) find display adapter
4) right click -> properties
5) details tab
6) drop down menu compatible ids and see if it is there

 

[crumble114]

Thanks a lot for the help mindless!
Will try this out in a minute and report back with updates, appreciate it.

 

[crumble114]

Sorry, had to head out for a bit. Going to try this now.

 

[crumble114]

I tried out the steps you gave and it's saying:
'The best driver software for your device is already installed
Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date.
Standard VGA Graphics Adapter'
What the hell? I have no graphics driver so how can it be up to date, plus it's not even saying that I have a ATI 4670, just VGA Graphics Adapter.
Any idea?

 

[crumble114]

I also checked the Device Manager compatible IDS and here are the only ones listed:
The one you mentioned wasn't there:

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9488&REV_00
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9488
PCI\VEN_1002&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_1002&CC_0300
PCI\VEN_1002
PCI\CC_030000
PCI\CC_0300

 

[rangers]

did you save after step 5