ATI 9200

All-IN-Wonder

Published on January 23, 2006 By sleepydawg In Video Cards

I don’t understand, maybe someone can explain it to me. I have a AMD Athlon XP 2600 - 2133 MHz - 512 memory - With a All-In-Wonder 9200 ATI Radeon card. WindowBlinds 5 has worked fine since it came out. Yesterday, for other reason than windowblinds, I updated my card driver from 5.1 to 6.1. Now WB does not work.

I tried to switch back but that did not work ether. So I searched the site and fond that WB will not work with the 9200. What gives???
It’s like having a small bite of a very good cookie!

Comments

Island Dog

on Jan 23, 2006

Did you trying re-installing Windowblinds? I updated also and have had no problems.

sleepydawg

on Jan 23, 2006

No. But I will try. Do you have the 9200 card? Point is, it is not supposed to have ever worked..I had read that only the 9500 and up will work. Thanks for the suggestion.

Cavan1

on Jan 23, 2006

I have a 9200 SE, rolled back to drivers off install disc and everything works fine. Driver version 6.14.10.6483.
The 9200 series has not shown as supported for updates at ATI for a few updates, not sure how far back to when it is supported. I know at 5.8 had no per pixel frames for any 1280x res or higher.

Jafo

on Jan 23, 2006

This is probably one of those examples of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

If an older driver worked fine...and a newer one did not...then it's the fault of the newer driver. If switching back then doesn't work it will be because 'bits' of the newer driver are causing issues.

You'll need to fully remove the ATI card drivers from the system...and re-install the old one....

Or perhaps a restore to prior to the new install....if you have one...

Corky_O

on Jan 23, 2006

You'll need to fully remove the ATI card drivers from the system...and re-install the old one....

If you need to do this, ATI offers a "Catalyst Uninstaller" which will remove all trace of ATI driver files from the system. You can access it via the downloads > utilities section of their web site.

sleepydawg

on Jan 24, 2006

OK- Tried everything that everybody suggested with no luck.

Something was screwing with the driver installs. Kept getting display errors. Finally had to do a fresh install of OS. Hell it needed to be done anyway. Reinstalled original drivers from ATI disk and BINGO it's all good.

I'm one happy puppy. Thanks all for your help.(9200's will work)

Buttermaker

on Jan 25, 2006

Not only does the Radeon 9200 work, but I am using a Radeon 9000 and it works like a charm. No problems here, what so ever. But yes, I have had problems in the past installing new drivers, when the old ones work. That's why anytime people tell me to update my video drivers, I tell them to go f themselves!

William-Quist

on Jan 25, 2006

Yup, using ATI's Mobility Raedon 9000 (with Omega drivers) and it all works.

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