I did a Vista upgrade over the weekend and after getting through the installation of the new OS , im having a terrible time getting my 9600 xt card to work with the new Vista drivers from ATI. I had previously loaded onto Windows XP the latest drivers for my 9600 xt card and after I loaded Vista I removed them and then installed the latest Vista drivers onto my system....Now, even though my system seems to be running ok, when i checked deviice manager for my graphics adapter, it shows i have a problem with the drivers.

The latest vista drivers from ATI do support the 9600 series cards so I dont know why Vista wont recoginize my card or the drivers im trying to install. Any assistance would be greatley appreciated.


My setup:

Athlon 64 3200+
Chaintech mobo
1 GB ddr 3200 Ram
200 GB Western Digital HDD
Creative Audigy ZS Gamer Sound Card
NEC DVD drive
Sapphire 128mb 9600xt video card
Netgear Wg311 wireless adapter

I am having the exact same problem but with a HIS Radeon 9800 Pro. I have tried numerous things such as disabling other hardware incase of conflicts but to no avail I have emailed Microsoft and ATI to see whether they can help, but up till now i havent found anyone else with the same syptoms. HELP!!!

I beleive the problem is with the ATI Beta 2 drivers, i think the build number is 5381 not the newest build for Vista, which i believe is 5384.......hopefully over the next week or two ATI can put out a newer beta 2 driver that works with this version of Vista.....

I wa tempted to buy a x800 gto card from newegg and put that on this machine but i would most likely have the same problem.........

Ummm..I need some vista video drivers, anyone know anywhere I can download them???

what card?

When I first installed the Radeon X1600 Pro graphics Card, Vista booted and automatically installed drives. It required a restart. During restart, I experienced a blue screen, then restart again and came to rest at the safe mode startup screen.
I went into safe mode and deleted the drivers, then I install the drivers from the ATI website ([FONT='Helvetica','sans-serif']Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista RC1) and during restart I get a blue screen, then stopped at the Startup in safe mode screen. They don’t appear to work either. Listed below is the information out of my System information. Anybody have a fix?[/font]
OS Name: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version: 6.0.5384 Not Available Build 5384

my ati aiw installed ok but cant get the tv side to work cant find drivers vista see the card ok but not the tv side

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Im having the exact same problem on my machine. Only diff is that mine is with a ATI mobility Radeon 9700. Under the Device Poperties menu, it says that my Display Adapter has been disabled because it is reporting problems. I have reinstalled the driver and even attempted to install the xp driver. So far I havent had any luck.

my immediate instinct is that the ATI drivers haven't played nice with Windows for the past couple of years, so they haven't been working too hard on the beta drivers for Vista. has anyone tried to use the generic SVGA drivers and set their resolution and refresh to match their card/monitor. this might be a stop-gag until the ATI drivers go final. I don't know since i use primarily SiS and Intel for my graphics.
Keep sending in your issues to ATI and Micro$haft... that is the only way they'll fix the problem.
Happy Beta-ing!