M17x R-2 Drivers Thread

I just checked, 10.3 drivers extract to c:\AMD\10.3blahblahblah. point mobility modder to there. all other catalyst drivers go to c:\ati\support.

 

If you install 10.3 no mobility modder is needed. This is the new beta where ATI is supporting mobility cards now, Dell included.

 

During driver installation, Win7 will ask to consider ATi drivers, even if not certified, as good...

 

This is true, I can confirm.

 

Well I've tried all this with no success. I followed your instructions, disabled the dual HD4870 cards, deleted the drivers, installed and run ccleaner (thanks for this program ) and then extracted and tried to install the 10.3 CCC. It loads up, lets me pick a language, next I hit the install option and ............... nothing. Nothing at all happens. So at the minute I'm left with massive icons on my screen and my desktop all over the place lol

thanks for help anyway guys - Im gonna go back to the original drivers I had and then try to fix BFBC2. It wont let me join a server. Great having a $3000+ laptop

 

You hit next on the page that says Welcome in the top left corner and then nothing happens? please confirm



nothing happens after you click THAT next, correct?

 

No I get to the next step- here I am given the option to install. When I click it nothing happens?

 

So let me get this straight, If I download the 10.3 ATI Catalyst drivers from AMD's website and install them on my M17x-R2 with dual card configuration I DONT HAVE TO USE MOBILITY MODDER? Just install it from the website because it supports Mobility Cards now including Dell's?

 

just to confirm, of these three images, which one do you not make it past?

 

The first one - when I click install nothing happens.

 

yes. choose custom install. on the subsequent page, if the graphics driver is there and can be unchecked, it means its going to be installed and was detected as compatible with your hardware.

 

This is a pickle. I'm not quite sure what is going on to be honest.

have you done a clean installation of windows 7 by formatting your hard drive or are you still running the version of the OS that you get when you receive the computer from dell?

 

YAY, no more modding with mobilty modder Should work with the new 5870 cards coming out to huh? And how is AMD able to do this? I thought they made everyone use the vendors graphics drivers. Why all of a sudden a change of heart to support their cards with their own drivers? Nvidia does it so is AMD taking a hint?

 

it might be because its a beta release they dont have to follow the rules?

we'll see when 10.3 goes live.

 

What is the download link to download 10.3 Beta? On AMD's site i just see the download for 10.2

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/download...0.3_Beta_Preview_for_Vista7_32-bit64-bit.html

 

Added the download link for the flickering-fixing bios update.

 

Just curious, since you went over to the Clevo why do you still hang in the AW forum Moo? Are you still considering getting one at some point?

 

he is probably one of the most knowledgable here about alienware computers

 

Is this still the thread to keep an eye out for new drivers for the M17x R2?

 

Is the first post on this page kept up to date? Are all the links the most current working drivers?

Is the Command Center link correct?

Doing a fresh OS w7 load.

Thanks

 

I do believe so

 

There is a new video driver/ccc, 10.3

 

which is the latest driver for ATI now? and i dont mean official dell

 

check link

http://strags.com/

 

right but do all of them work with mobility radeon?

 

should work. been awhile since i tried them though. im still running 10.3 on mine right now

 

10.4 is out, downloading now. Hopefully these will install for me as 10.3 would not!

 

Nope, same problem as before, the installer will only show the option to install CIM and VC 2008 runtime. WOuld be nice to know exactly why so many of us are having problems getting these to load, Dell/Alienware didn't opt out, did they? I haven't seen anything that says that but I'm kind of at a loss why they simply will not install...

 

I haven't had any problems installing the ATI drivers. I just updated to 10.4 two days ago. I did the usual uninstall of the old driver, ran Drive Sweeper and CCleaner in Safe Mode, then installed the new drivers. Everything seems to be working fine for me so far.

 

Hello i just recd my m17xr2 yesterday. I wanted to update ATI CCC , it downloaded , exracted fine but when installating it asked for create ATI Technologies folder @ Program Files i hit ok and after the installation was complete the ATI Technologies folder was found to be empty ?

Im not able to open CCC , i tried to revert back to the drivers that came with the resource disk they dont seem to work too .

OS : Win 7 ulti x64

Any help is appreciated . Thanks.