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Better drivers for x700 in DV4000?

post #1 of 8
3/3/06 at 2:33pm
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Just wondering where to get the best drivers for the ATI X700 in the DV4000? I had a zd7000 with the nvidia go 5700 and used hacked drivers from laptopvideo2go, is there a good site like that for the ati mobile cards? Just looking for good gaming performance drivers.
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post #2 of 8
3/4/06 at 8:41pm
Of course ATI (Catalyst Mobility 6.2 for Windows XP)
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27

And Omega (drivers are tweaked for optimal gaming performance)
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
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post #3 of 8
3/4/06 at 10:53pm
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I tried to install from ATI's site before, their compatablility program said that my laptop was not... Any ideas why? Did hp do something to lock drivers or will it still work correctly?
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post #4 of 8
3/16/06 at 10:57pm
I am now using the Omega driver but I have problem in recovering from Standby after closing the lid. Now I set the closing lid action to hibernation and it is fine.
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post #5 of 8
3/16/06 at 11:28pm
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I am using ATI mobility 6.3 and I and have the problem with standby sometimes also, open the lid, and get a black screen, have to restart to get anything. Other then that I like the drivers. I don't really want to use hibernation... I wish standby was working right. Oh well! haha
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post #6 of 8
3/17/06 at 11:33am
I set it back to Standby again and tested it with AC or battery mode and waking up with the power button or the touchpad. In all cases, it recovered well while using the Omega driver. This test was done when the computer was freshly started. I wonder if a particular application is linked to the problem. Last night when I found the waking up problem, I MAY have disconnected the TV out in between and I also have an NDAS network drive mounted at home. It is known that if there is any hardware change after entering standby mode (e.g. removing a USB device), the computer may not wake up properly. The NDAS connection actually suggests not to use standby or hibernation when a disk is mounted, however, I found hibernation to be okay.
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post #7 of 8
3/17/06 at 1:08pm
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Maybe thats it, It seems to happen to me the most when on battery power and I am moving it around alot. I also have alot of USB devices that I am taking on and off... I will have to play around with that and see what the results are.
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post #8 of 8
3/20/06 at 1:16pm
I have tried the standby mode recovery at work several times without problem, but when I did that at home with NDAS mounted, I could not wake up the laptop half of the time. So I don't think the wake up problem is caused by the OMEGA driver.
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