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Upgrading my Dell E1505 Inspiron laptop to Windows 10. Upgrade check said the ATI Catalyst would have to be reinstalled; not a problem. Upgrade and activation went okay.
Win10 x32 with 2MB RAM and SSD. With one exception, the Dell Vista device drivers have worked fine (touchpad, media card reader, modem, network, Bluetooth, audio, etc).
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The exception is the video driver for an ATI Mobility Radeon X1300. The default 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' was installed. The resolution with this driver is wrong, it is 1024x768. No option to change it (except down to 800x600).
The display is actually 1280x800, so as a result everything is stretched wrong. I finally did find a driver that would install and let me set the correct resolution, 'ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)' dated 8/25/2006, version 7.
The problem with this driver is that every time I mouse over text in the Start Menu or text in the tiles, the text disappears. The background/highlighting of the selected item is still visible (a lighter gray on a black background) as I move the mouse pointer up and down, but the text is gone.
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Oddly, the first time I open the Start Menu after installing the new driver, it works fine. But starting with the second time the text vanishes. And it doesn't come back until I restart, or reinstall the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. Text in applications and desktop icons seems unaffected.
Thinking it was just an upgrade quirk, I re-did the upgrade, this time a clean install and I had Win10 Setup format the drive first. I've tried installing a bunch of other versions but I get the message 'The driver selected for this device does not support this version of Windows.' I've also installed the DX9 runtimes but that didn't help.
Nor did today's (Aug. 10) Windows 10 major update help. I should add that right after POST when just the blue window is showing, the circle-of-dots is correctly round even with the Basic Display Adapter. It's not until the start screen (with time and date) that the effect of the wrong resolution appears (horizontally stretched). Is there a setting somewhere I am missing? Any help would be appreciated. Hi, Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.
This issue occurs when the drivers are not compatible or the drivers you installed are not the correct driver for your operating system. I would suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the drivers in compatibility mode and check the functionality. Refer the steps to install a driver in compatibility mode: a. Right click on the setup file of the driver and select Properties b. Select Compatibility Tab c.
Place a check mark next to Run this program in Compatibility mode and select the operating system accordingly from the drop down list d. Let the driver to install and then check the functionality. Make older programs compatible with this version of Windows Most programs created for earlier versions of Windows also work in this version of Windows, but some older programs might run poorly or not at all. If a program written for an earlier version of Windows doesn't work correctly, you can try changing the compatibility settings for the program, either by using the Program Compatibility Troubleshooter or manually choosing compatibility settings. I would also suggest you to refer to the below link: Troubleshoot video card problems Hope this information helps and let us know the status of the issue we will be glad to help you further. Regards, Yaseer.
Mohammed, Sorry for the delay in getting back to this but other work has kept me busy. Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it didn't help. I have only an INF file (and associated files) for the video driver, there is no EXE or other setup program. The INF file is 'atiilhag.inf', along with sys, dll, cat, cpa, cat, vp, cab files. I first tried uninstalling every driver I had installed, then use the old WDDM file, but it didn't help.
So I re-installed Win10 from scratch, first formatting the partition. I let it apply all updates and rebooted. Then I updated the display driver to use the WDDM INF driver/file. No difference, the text on the start menu blanks out as soon as the mouse pointer is over it, as does text in the tiles (except the Solitaire Collection tile for some reason, it is not affected). I only want to get the resolution set to 1280x800. Is there a way I can add this info to monitor.inf or another file or force the default Microsoft display adapter to use a different resolution?
I don't care about the ATI/AMD catalyst control center; I only want the resolution fixed. (I had already tried Mevario's solution and it doesn't work for me.) Any other suggestions? I had a similar problem with a Dell Laptop and a different ATI graphics card. I would recommend searching for 'AMDCatalyst13.4LegacyBetaVistaWin7Win8' Finding it on AMDs page is a pain.
Try installing that. You may have a problem where the install hangs at 'Enumerating source media for installable packages' If that happens, install from Device Manager Display adapters (your graphics card) Right click and choose Properties. Click the Driver tab. Choose Update Driver Browse my computer for driver software Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer Have Disk. Browse to the folder the drivers were stored in. On my PC, it was C: AMD AMDCatalyst13.4LegacyBetaVistaWin7Win8 Packages Drivers Display then either W8INF or W86AINF. In each folder, there were three.inf files.
I clicked on each until one installed. Sorry for the long-winded response. Hope that it helps. I've spent the last day digging around the Dell forums and I came across a reference to what I think is the last driver Dell released for this card/machine.
The Dell filename is R153383.exe. This is a Vista 32-bit driver, v8.360.0.0, Dell release A04.
After modifying the setup program to run in Compatibility Mode (Vista), this did install both a driver and the ATI Catalyst program. This driver has the proper 1280x800 resolution and doesn't blank out text (yeah!!).
The Catalyst program had some hiccups on restart but these were fixed by completely uninstalling all ATI programs, manually installing 'dotnetfx35.exe' (the 3.5.net framework), restarting again, and reinstalling ATI. I ultimately decided against leaving Catalyst installed because with this laptop it's pretty much useless on Win10. Resolution and orientation are available from the Control Panel Display page and I don't need another program running in the background. Just FYI, this laptop originally came with Windows XP Media Center Edition back in May 2006.
Still running 9 years later.
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