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Inspiron 8500 Ati video driver with Vista/Windows7

16 May 2009 01:53PM

I've tried installing windows 7 on my trusty inspiron 8500 to see if I can prolong its life. It runs well, but I can't find a video driver for the ATI mobility radeon 9000 graphics card . I'm currently using the generic vga driver which means no 1680x1050 screen resolution. Instead I'm on 1280x1024, which means everything is ugly and stretched. Also, no fancy stuff like TV output.

Ati pass the buck to dell if you go looking on their site (now AMD). Dell only have XP drivers. If I can get windows 7 to run properly my laptop could live for another few years at least.

Does anyone have any ideas about where to get a vista / win7 compatable driver? Or does anyone know of a work around?

ATI (before AMD took over) released generic linux drivers to allow widescreen lcds to use their native resolutions under linux. Could there be some huge bundle driver to bring all legacy ati cards up to speed in vista / win7?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Re: Inspiron 8500 Ati video driver with Vista/Windows7

16 May 2009 02:34PM

ATI never released drivers for Vista for the 9000 chip - there aren't any, nor is it likely there will be for Windows 7.

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Re: Inspiron 8500 Ati video driver with Vista/Windows7

18 May 2009 09:32AM

A user at window 7 forum 

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/7875-ati-9250-pci-video-card-problem.html

Reports this driver works with Win 7 and Radeon 9000/9250 series.Confirmed to work by a Dell 600m user with mobility 9000 64mb at:

http://www.driverheaven.net/driverheaven-tools-discussion/176396-problem-radeon-mobility-9000-9100-igp-windows-7-catalyst-8-12-driver-package.html

Driver:install thru device manager/update driver after unpacking files.Point the installer to the unpacked files--Good luck -have not tried this as I do not

own this chpset.

http://rapidshare.com/files/231461174/Vista_ATI_Radeon_XDDM_6.14.10.6606.zip

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