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Windows 7 64 bit will not see my ATI 3650 agp graphics card

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larry_41   10-06-2009 at 08:44:46 PM

Windows 7 64 bit will not see my ATI 3650 agp graphics card. Therefore, I cannot install the drivers for it. Any advice would be appreciated.

Win 7 64 bit provides a generic display adapter, but it is as though the 3650 graphics card does not exist although the monitor is running off it.

I have downloaded the latest drivers from both ATI and from ASUS, but they cannot install because Win 7 does not see the card.


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zipzoomflyhigh   10-06-2009 at 09:15:27 PM

WHY cant you install the drivers? Windows doesn't need to recognize the model of the card to install drivers. Your obviously getting video through the card so just run the driver setup.exe

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larry_41   10-06-2009 at 09:21:29 PM

zipzoomflyhigh wrote :

You can download the drivers from ATI.com and install them. It doesnt matter if windows recognizes the card or not, you are getting video, you just need your drivers.



You would think so, but that does not appear to be the case.

I have downloaded the latest drivers from both ATI and from ASUS, but they cannot install because Win 7 does not see the card. The ATI Catalyst Installer installs, but not the drivers. Or they do not install correctly. I have downloaded the files several times to make sure they are not corrupted, but to no avail.

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zach538467   10-06-2009 at 09:34:40 PM

Yeah I had that problem on my stepdads old 3850. Unless someone has released a one-off version, you are SOL until(if) they release a win 7 version of the hotfix drivers.

Zip, the problem is that the 3650 is really a 3650 PCI-E with an on card bridge to AGP, the regular drivers didn't work until like catalyst 9 or so when they finally released the hotfix in the main release. Now they have stopped legacy support at 9.6 so surely they will release an updated hotfix...

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Bronze Graphics badge coozie7   10-06-2009 at 09:41:15 PM

You cannot seriously expect any company to support AGP on Win7, can you?

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zipzoomflyhigh   10-06-2009 at 10:20:20 PM

Yeah I agree. Why are you using Windows 7 with aging hardware? You should be running windows XP or Vista.

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larry_41   10-06-2009 at 10:42:40 PM

Well, actually, I am running an MSI K8T Master 2 dual socket 940 workstation server board with two Opteron 250's overclocked to 2.8 GHz. Win 7 32bit runs fine on it. Since I recently came up with 8 GB of registered ram I thought I would try Win 7 64bit. Win 7 rates all of my hardware at 5.3 to 5.9 except of course the graphics card. I have my Core 2 Quads running on a couple of other machines, but this rig has always treated me right and I like keeping it going.

I have come to the conclusion, however, that this ATI card will not work with Win7 64bit. The drivers ATI is pointing to for Win 7 are in fact Vista drivers. I opened up the downloaded package to find Vista drivers. I received an error message saying they are not intended for the Win7 platform. So much for that. I will try an Nvidia card.

Thanks to everyone who offered advice. I appreciate it. I will visit these forums more often.


Message edited by larry_41 on 10-06-2009 at 10:48:17 PM
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zipzoomflyhigh   10-07-2009 at 12:12:43 AM

Like I said, it doesn't make much sense to run Win7 64b with old hardware such as an agp card.

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larry_41   10-07-2009 at 06:06:13 PM

dogisfat wrote :

have you considered glasses for the OS?




A seeing eye dog would be better.

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