Urgent - Problem with ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

fsi.scsi · Aug 17, 2006, 02:07 PM

Hello to all,

I have a 2.8 GHz Toshiba laptop (WinXP) with 768 MB RAM and an ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP graphics card. I installed the Omega ATI drivers based on Catalyst 6.5 and they worked great. Recently I installed the latest 3.8.273 (Catalyst 6.7) drivers. I thought it was safe to install the new drivers over the old ones - but apparently not, because as soon as I restarted the PC and attempted to log in to Windows, I got a blue screen that flashed once and disappeared (the PC automatically restarted.) From what I got the error had to do with one of the new dll's installed by Omega. I restarted several times to no avail. I even went into Safe Mode to try and figure out what was wrong... nothing seemed to work. Finally I reinstalled the old original ATI drivers - which seemed to work, except that if I chose any 32 bit resolution the blue screen appeared yet again.

I experimented: Trying to reinstall the Omega drivers yet again (downloaded from 3 different mirrors) resulted in 1 clean startup - but the system refused to maintain any resolution higher than 800x600x16bpp. As of right now I have reverted to the old ATI drivers, which still have the aforementioned problem.

I am getting desperate in this situation and would really appreciate any constructive help.

fsi.scsi · Aug 18, 2006, 10:48 AM

Fixed my own problem, I think..

I rolled back all the drivers to the original ATI ones that were preinstalled on my computer (dllcache helped a lot) and redownloaded/installed the Omega drivers based on Catalyst 6.5.

Why did it not work? Well according to the ATI website Catalyst 6.7 is not supported by the following graphics cards -

so by extension any enhanced drivers based on Catalyst 6.7 would also be incompatible with the above cards. That's just my theory, though, and I could be completely wrong.

Thanks to all who helped anyway

pepinos · Sep 27, 2006, 12:58 AM

I had exactly the same problem. After BIOS upgrade it's no problem and everything work great.

Blue_Dragonyx · Aug 8, 2007, 07:22 AM

I got problem about Toshiba A60 that using Radeon 7000 IGP too.

When I installed the ATI driver or Toshiba's Driver for Sattelite A60 ever.

It had Blue screen every time reboot.

but After update Bios from 1.70 to 1.90 everything just fine.

And now I can use A60 by the Old driver that was once get problem.