ronaldace

Yay! I was wondering what was making my laptop crash when I put it to sleep (I thought some software I installed had damaged the Vista install), and I was about to format it in a few days, now it seems the problem is solved (I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 1425 with Radeon Mobility 9700).

By the way, Modder 8.1 worked perfectly with Catalyst 7.6 on this laptop. Hopefully some problems I had with older version of Catalyst are solved (such as the drivers "forgetting" about the LCD when I plugged in an external display...). Thanks for this great software!

SSilence

The merit for this problem solved in Ati Tray Tools is not mine ronaldace, I have to thanks quipster811, who posted the solution at the official ATT forum...

I was thinking, the modded XG WarCat drivers behave as the normal Cat for the installation process. So I have used the Mobility Modder to patch them and I'm preparing to install them. I will post again to tell if this works or not...

Wish me good luck...

__________________
My computers - Laptops
1)Packard Bell Easynote R8770. Centrino@1.8GHz Dothan, 1GB DDR333 ram, 100GB hdd, Ati Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB, Vista Ultimate SP1;
2)Compaq Presario v6131EU. Turion64X2 tl-50@1.6Ghz, 1GB DDR667 ram, 100GB hdd, GeForce Go 6150, XP Media Center.
My computers - Desktops
1)AMD Duron@1.0GHz Morgan, 256MB ram, 20GB hdd, MoBo ECS K7VZA, Asus v9400 Magic 128MB, Win 2000 Professional; (Out of order: PSU failure damaged MoBo)
2)Intel Pentium4HT@3.2GHz Prescott, 1GB DDR2 400 ram, hdd1 200GB & hdd2 500GB (both SATA II, 16 MB cache), chipset Ati Xpress200, Nvidia GeForce 6800GS 256MB, Vista Ultimate SP1. (Still resisting to time attacks...)

KainXS

is it worth uninstalling windows xp to try this mobility modder if all the other ones failed

SSilence

Here I am back again!

- Mission report -

Installation of WarCat using MobyModder

Mission succeeded

Details follow:
The WarCat installed fine using the Mobility Modder, but the performance gain is not so high as I expected - I will keep them until the Omegadrivers will become available for Vista.

__________________
My computers - Laptops
1)Packard Bell Easynote R8770. Centrino@1.8GHz Dothan, 1GB DDR333 ram, 100GB hdd, Ati Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB, Vista Ultimate SP1;
2)Compaq Presario v6131EU. Turion64X2 tl-50@1.6Ghz, 1GB DDR667 ram, 100GB hdd, GeForce Go 6150, XP Media Center.
My computers - Desktops
1)AMD Duron@1.0GHz Morgan, 256MB ram, 20GB hdd, MoBo ECS K7VZA, Asus v9400 Magic 128MB, Win 2000 Professional; (Out of order: PSU failure damaged MoBo)
2)Intel Pentium4HT@3.2GHz Prescott, 1GB DDR2 400 ram, hdd1 200GB & hdd2 500GB (both SATA II, 16 MB cache), chipset Ati Xpress200, Nvidia GeForce 6800GS 256MB, Vista Ultimate SP1. (Still resisting to time attacks...)

neunon

When I try launching MobilityDotNET.exe, I get this ugly error (thank you .NET!):

Spike

neunon have you already tried downloadint the .NET Framework 2.0 from the MS site and reinstall that? maybe it is damaged and most times reinstalling that fixes those problems.

__________________

neunon

Unfortunately, that didn't help. Note also that this is virtually a fresh install of Windows (1 week old at most), so damage is unlikely anyway. What really bugs me about this crash is that I know I could fix it if I had the source code. But I know that won't happen.

Spike

Are you sure you don't have the beta framework or compact framework installed and that you have 2.0 installed and not 1.1?

Fixing a bug is always easier when you can replicate it.

__________________

neunon

Yes, I'm certain. .NET Framework 2.0. Non-compact. Non-beta. Non-1.1. Please note that I do .NET development myself (though I try to avoid it because cross-platform coding is hell with it), and I'm not stupid. Forgive me for feeling a bit insulted.

And yes, bugs are easier to solve when they can be replicated. It's a shame that the stack trace provided was rather useless. It tells basically nothing about what method it was in, if any, though it looks like this happened before the program fully initialized.

Spike

neunon i am not trying to insult you, but if you know how much people mailed me with problems in Driver Cleaner or Mobility Modder and that almost all was because they had a beta framework 2.0 or damaged farmework. So that is why i asked that to be sure.

The new version should be ready soon and maybe it is fixed in that. If you want you can send me an email and you can test that version and if you have the same problem i can try to fix it before i release it. If you want to test it send an email to info@drivercleaner.net.

__________________

neunon

I understand completely. I deal with debugging these sorts of problems in my own software all the time (though they're almost never as vague as this). You have to ask the questions that seem obvious to the informed.

If you need development help, I'd be willing to lend a hand, or if you just need a tester, I can do that too. I'm sending an email right now.

DNAtek

Previously I couldn't get CCC to work in Vista with an X600 SE, but after this update, all works well - thanks!

Turks

Thanks so much for getting the ATi drivers to work on my Toshiba laptop. It is a lot nicer having newer drivers on it.

irondog

Hi Spike,
I'm trying to make my mini-ITX motherboard (iBase MB879F) work with Vista.
This motherboard sports a Radeon Xpress 200M chipset that is recognized by Vista but inside device property I get ERROR CODE 43. So I tried to install mobility modder, mod 7.6 drivers but still no luck (stuck at code 43).
The device ID should be "5a42" or "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5A42&SUBSYS_5A411002&REV_00" .
Do you think you can help me make things work?

thanks

Spike

Do you have drivers installed for all the things in the system like motherboard chipset?

__________________

irondog

The NB is a ATI RC410MD and the SB is a ATI SB450.
I've found an ATI SB driver into the ATI website, I've installed it and it doesn't change anything... which other driver I should install?
This is my motherboard: http://www.ibasetechnology.net/mb879.html

thanks!

Spike

It looks wierd the page says VGA is a 9600 mobility. So the drivers that should be installed are the 9600 drivers, but you said it gets detected as a Xpress 200M. Do you know what the old driver said in the old windows?

__________________

irondog

I don't know, because I have never tried to install XP... but I'm willing to try...

Spike

No that is not needed. Have you also tried the official IGP drivers from the ati website? maybe that already supports your card and chipset.

__________________

irondog

Yes it's the South Bridge driver (I suppose).
Can you tell me if this board is supported by mobility modder?

Spike

I mean downloading that driver and install that. Not modding it. My program can only add support for mobility cards in the desktop driver for videocards.

I am not sure why the drivers don't work, but i am sure it is a problem with your system because if the drivers that come with windows give a code 43 then i think something is not installed right or some drivers are missing. Best you could do is ask the company where you bought the motherboard or the maker what the best thing to do is with Vista.

__________________

solian

Um, i just finally got the modder to work, and modded and installed the Catalyst 6.5 on my labtop with a mobility radeon 9200 32mb. But then when i restarted, everything seemed fine until the login screen. It basically gave me a black screen. So then i restarted it and this time it was a black screen again, except there's this weird thick whitish line going across somewhere near the bottom. I'm thinking maybe the catalyst version is too high for my card, but anyone know the solution? Thanks.

EDIT: ok, i got 5.3 to work. but how come it thinks my card is 9000 when its 9200?

irondog

Hi, I've installed XP into another partition and surprisingly the board has been correctly identified installing the modified IGP drivers from ATI. I don't quite understand why it isn't recognized by Vista... I will post detailed informations on how it has been recognized by XP, I think it's some "stupid" Vista bug...

Spike

solian what is the device id of your card?

Also the 9000 and the 9200 use almost the same settings so it doe not matter. If you can tell me the device id then i can look into it.

irondog what i know from Vista is that if the hardware is not reconized by vista that you need real vista drivers for the hardware, so maybe they will come. I think also that it is better to use xp for now, because else you can't work good on Vista if the hardware doesn't get reconized.

__________________

solian

I think this is the DeviceID...

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4C66&SUBSYS_08600E11&REV_01\4&1BF A44D4&0&0008

I wasn't sure exactly where to find(the device manager actually) , but i think this is it. Thanksf or your help. And yea, i didn't notice any changes for the worst even though it thought it was a 9000.

Spike

Yep that is the device id. DEV_4C66 is a 9000, but it is possible that the manufacturer of the notebook made the chip itself faster and added more memory. They can easily change the name in the driver with adding this SUBSYS_08600E11 in the driver file and name it 9200. So it is nothing to worry about.

__________________

solian

Ok, thanks. Now i just gotta try and find the newest catalyst that works with my card, since 5.3 is the only one that works so far.

hacktrix2006

I've had this problem with Wifi Code 43 is telling you that the Driver or Hardware is either not working or is corrupt. The only way i manged was to format the hard disc and start again with a clean install but if you have XP or Vista just boot with the CD and go to recovery console and type CHKDSK/R if that don't work use something like drivercleaner and delete every driver off and re-install them. If that doesn't work it could be a duff board!!!

swoopiewoopie

i have an dell inspiron 9100 running vista with a ati mobility radeon 9800 is it possible to use this modder for my 9800, it isn't in the supported list of the mobility modder

Spike

The mobility 9800 is supported, but i forgot to add that in the list. So you can use the modder to mod it. Will add the name in the list in the next update.

__________________