ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility Driver

[Bones]

Hey all

Just installed Win7 on my friends aging laptop, its installed a default VGA driver and works ok. I would like to install the proper ATI drivers to get some options as he uses multiple monitors.

Does anyone know where to find some Win 7 compatible drivers for this mobility card, as i have exhausted all options that i can find.

tried:

- ATI mobility scanning app thing
- Latest 10.2's
- Tried some old ATI mobility 7500 drivers (SP26223.exe) error saying missing INF file


The laptop is a IBM T42 (intel 1.8ghz, 1.5gb ram. Radeon 7500 mobility)
running windows 7 32bit.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[alex24]

Looks like that model is too old to support Win 7 properly (or indeed vista). The manufacturers drivers page says it should install by default and work OK with vista. With a google there is quite a bit of discussion on the net about how it won't work with 7. Someone has made a modded catalyst 6.4 but it's not perfect. I'd use XP instead as the page I linked has a whole host of drivers there. That machine is just too old, and the often weird and wonderful components of some laptops are often not supported by newer operating systems as they're not new or mainstream enough.

 

[OrphanBoy]

Doesn't ATI provide a legacy driver section in conjunction with their mainline driver?

 

[lay-z-boy]

Doesn't ATI provide a legacy driver section in conjunction with their mainline driver?

Quarterly, for desktop gpu's. For that matter however, the 7500 is a seriously old gpu. ATI's definition of legacy is the x1xxx series, the x800 and 9x00 series.

 

[3dcandy]

if the legacy drivers are contained in an spxxxx.exe they are compaq drivers so won't work.you need legacy ati's or even better IBM's drivers, however the laptop is so old you can't actually get IBM drivers for Win 7, or even Vista for that matter...
I reckon your mate is stuck with vga drivers. you won't find any better than that. the laptop really isn't going to cut it running windows 7!

 

[Bones]

ok thanks for looking into it chaps

 

[3dcandy]

had another look this morning and I'm afraid there are no sets for Windows 7 at all for chips that old....I guess you could try modding some drivers, but I'm guessing you're out of luck mate! If he's happy with the performance as it is, stick with the microsoft ones, they will be fine for basic web browsing, office stuff etc.