X1700 & Vista

Hi guys,

I've just installed Vista on my X60plus this evening. From what I've read it looks like I can hack the sound drivers, but my main problem is graphics.

I can't get any driver to install, so I'm stuck at a fairly poor resolution using the default MS video driver.

Can anyone give me a link to an ATI driver that will install and work? I'm missing my 1680x1050....

 

ATI no longer publish Vista drivers for mobile products and, as you have discovered, Samsung are in no hurry to provide Vista support for the X60 plus.

Omega drivers don't seem to support Vista either, but did you find Vista Driver.net. This lists the X1700. Worth trying?

Alternatively, the Asus F3Jp uses the X1700. It's Vista driver is here.

Let us know how you get on.

John

 

Thanks John.

I'd seen the vistadrivers website, but the x1700 driver on there is about 110Mb and was downloading at 10kb/s!

That link you've given me on the Asus site though seems to be the same file, though much quicker - I'll post again when the file comes down.

Cheers!

 

Fails to find any installable components.

Guess it's back to XP.

 

Ah - I guess I should have tried the original Samsung drivers first. I went into Device Manager and force an update for the graphics card - telling it to look at the purple CD that came with the laptop, and it found something it could use.

Only problem now is that Vista is rating the card as a "1.0", it appears it cannot detect how much graphics memory there is. So, I'm stuck with Vista Basic, can't get Aero (even though I have Ultimate).

Oh well, one step at a time.

 

There's a few people who have got Vista to sort of work on the X60 plus so they must have managed to jump this hurdle. Maybe someone will pass by and share their experience. You may have fallen foul of Vista's UAC. Can you try turning it off and/or right click on the installer's setup.exe and select Run as Administrator.

I remember, when trying to get a good XP driver for the X1700, that one option was to take a driver which supports the X1600 and then hack the inf files. Hindsight suggests that Samsung should have stuck to the X1600 which they said that the X60 plus would have. There is still the unresolved issue of the lack of PowerPlay for the X1700 when running XP which seriously hits the battery life.

John

 

no need to do any hacking, just run the desktop Radeon installer, it works perfectly on the X60 plus with the x1700.

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html

Once installed, Vista runs very nicely with a graphics score of 4.9!

Cheers
Dave

 

Thanks guys.

Dave: I'm sure I tried that and it told me there was nothing it could install... downloading again just now, I'll post an update in a few mins.

Cheers,
Steve.

 

I've tried installing it, just back from the reboot... but no change.

The only thing it installed was the "Catalyst Install Manager", whatever that is... no mention of installing any drivers and I'm still on a rating of "1.0"...

 

Right, some hacking later and I think I'm getting somewhere.

I hacked the INF from the download that Dave suggested, copied the X1650 line, named it X1700 (and added the secondary too). Into device manager, forced a driver update (saying I'd select the driver, "have disk", etc)... picked my X1700 from the list, and it installed as a X1650...

I have a rating of 4.5, Areo is working... so bit of a messy way of getting there, but at least I have a result.

The whole thing is very odd... I really hope Samsung come up with the goods at some point and don't just cut the X60 off altogether.

Thanks for your help and pointers guys!

 

Off topic, but... pointed "update driver" to the purple Samsung CD and it installed the sound card no problem... external volume buttons work, Fn-F6 mutes... I'm happy!

 

strange that you should get a different result to me. I am running 64bit vista but that's the only difference as far as I can see. I did manage to get the catalyst drivers from the ATI website in January before they decided to drop all support for mobility customers and redirect people to the notebook mfg. instead!

If you re-run the 7.8 install, does it run without a hitch? I upgraded from 7.5 to 7.8 with absoluttely no problems at all...

 

I get the same thing every time - it installs the Install Manager, but nothing else... (no errors, just no drivers). Very strange!

 

maybe it's a difference with the 64bit version of the ati driver. There aren't many people running 64 bit vista and it undoubtedly would need a different build process by ATI - perhaps they have just forgotten to include the check for mobility in the 64 bit version of the driver...