Vista won't recognise my graphics card.

Sharpsilver

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Hello!

Last night I finally decided to partition my HDD and made myself a 80gb partition and installed Windows Vista via Boot Camp. It the setup worked all fine and everything seemingly has installed perfectly. However,

From past experience I knew I needed to update the graphics card driver and so I went to the device manager to check if it had recognised my Graphics card in the machine however all I found was the VGA Graphics adaptor providing me something like 16mb of graphics memory, not nearly enough to do anything, and by this point I had already run every driver of the leopard disk. I'm running a 2600 HD Pro.

If anybody would be able to provide me some advice in how I get Vista to recognise my Graphics card I will be truely appreciative.

Thanks.

SS.
 
Aha, I've already tried installing that. But I think I now know why it isn't installing the driver when I run that.

It might be because I've I've still got the service packs to install, and lots of updates..

Sounds like a silly question, but would a more windows-literate person be able to confirm this for me?
 
Service packs do tend to come with drivers, especially the larger ones. There are also plenty of Optional updates that are drivers.

Since you need to update anyway best way to find out is to actually do it!
 
Tried installing all the updates available though windows updater and it's not improved anthing sadly. I'm still stuck without the system recognising that I've got a graphics card. I run the Catalyst installer and it doesnt install any drivers for the components I've got in this computer.

Any other suggestions? Anybody? :(
 
You sure it's that card?

Pretty sure Vista installed a default driver for me, then I just installed the newest ATI straight after.

I have a HD2600pro too in my media centre
 
Yup, it's that card. But I really don't know what to do now. If tried pretty much everything to get this card working, installed numerous drivers, etc. etc. And I'm still stuck with the VGA Graphics adapter at 16mb.

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro:

Chipset Model: ATI,RadeonHD2600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
 
Remove and resit graphics card. Check power connector (unless it takes all of its juice from the PCIe slot).

Clear CMOS.
 
Forgot to mention this is on a imac so removing the gfx card is out of the question

However the graphics card works 100% fine in OS X. So It can't be the hardware I don't think.

I might be completely wrong though.
 
When you installed the ATI drivers they should have installed themselves to C:\ATI or whatever...

Go to device manager, right click on the GFX card and click update driver -> Browse my computer -> Let me pick from a list -> Have Disk, browse to the driver location and open the ini file, then choose the right card from there.

Hopefully will work.
 
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