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post #21 of 48
6/10/05 at 6:18am
Jeez anyone would think it was the end of the world by some of the comments here. Installed the new version and working fine....
ChrisC
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post #22 of 48
6/10/05 at 8:17am
How did you manage to install them?
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post #23 of 48
6/10/05 at 11:45am
They dont work on my laptop (see sig)...

But arent they only for the mobility X700 & X800?
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post #24 of 48
6/10/05 at 12:41pm
Hi, yes they are but the normal 5.6 XP ones work the same. As you quite rightly pointed out the mobility drivers are for X700's and X800's, that's probably why acer aren't supporting them....
Chris
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post #25 of 48
6/10/05 at 1:14pm
Has any on got it working on and Acer 8100 series?
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post #26 of 48
6/10/05 at 1:19pm
Ok it seems that only when you have ran the tester program and passed its compatibility, ATI lets you download the 5.6 drivers. Quote from ATI help file:


"Note: Certain mobile products are blocked from downloading the Catalyst™ Mobility™ software driver available from the ATI web site. This is to protect systems from installing drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacture. "



Can someone with a compatable laptop plz put up the drivers online?
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post #27 of 48
6/10/05 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Electro
Can someone with a compatable laptop plz put up the drivers online?
Well i dont have a compatible laptop and i was able to download them fine... I have company webspace 0.5TB of transfer per month, but I know i would lose my job if i put ATI drivers on the webspace...
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post #28 of 48
6/10/05 at 2:06pm
if someone can give me the drivers i have some webspace ill put them on
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post #29 of 48
6/10/05 at 2:37pm
Ok they are only 1MB... Do you have an e-mail address... Privite Message it to me...
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post #30 of 48
6/10/05 at 7:09pm
I got 5.6 installed with the driver mod tool from driverheaven.net. Seems to work OK so far. The drivers seem visibly faster, BUT....the strange white line at the base of the screen is back if you run a resolution other than the native 16x10. That got fixed in the 5.3 release....now its back.

I had to use the mod tool to install the drivers then manually install the control panel.

Based on how annoying the line is (Vampires: The Masquerade doesn't support 16x10) I may go back to the Unian 1.1.53 drivers.
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post #31 of 48
6/10/05 at 7:24pm
if you have an x700 you should not have needed to mod them...
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post #32 of 48
6/10/05 at 9:48pm
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if you have an x700 you should not have needed to mod them...
No such luck, the compatibility tester said the x700 in the acer 8104 is NOT supported and refused to go further. The stock 5.6 Xp package refused to install as well. I had to use mobility modder 2.2 to get them installed from the stock XP desktop drivers.

Basically, if your laptop model is not on the supported list of vendors at the website it will NOT install, even if you have an x700/800 mobility chip.
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post #33 of 48
6/10/05 at 10:50pm
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/sgfaulkner/web/atimcatw.exe

try that, hopefully it works...and if it doesn't im sure people will let me know
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post #34 of 48
6/10/05 at 10:53pm
Works, Downloaded in 3 seconds on satellite...
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post #35 of 48
6/11/05 at 9:19am
Hi again, I didn't use the mod, the drivers will install manual as a driver update...
ChrisC
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post #36 of 48
6/11/05 at 11:49am
Doesn't work, thanks though. I still get the same message: at the 1 of 3 update screen, it tells me the new drivers are not compatible with my system. My laptop is an Acer TM8104, which clearly has an x700.
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post #37 of 48
6/11/05 at 12:14pm
For fu*ks sake, ATI cant even get their act together for their own advertised mobility drivers - and here I was considering a pair of Crossfire ATI cards in the next few months.

I'm seriously in favour of a Dual core AMD 64 processor and a Crossfire ATI setup in the next few months, but if ATI can't even ge their own drivers to work on my x700 then what's the point.
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post #38 of 48
6/11/05 at 12:52pm
lol... It is sad...
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post #39 of 48
6/12/05 at 8:48am
I'm sorry you feel that way JFvergara, however not getting these drivers to work with your laptop should have nothing to do with your choice of card for your desktop PC....
Chrisc
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post #40 of 48
6/12/05 at 9:06am
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For fu*ks sake, ATI cant even get their act together
Give me a break. ATI clearly states why they did this. Laptop vendors may or may not have modified the drivers, especially to support lower clock speeds for heat reasons. ATI is making them test and approve the drivers before it lets their end users use them.

mobility modder 2.2 works great to install 5.6

You can manually installed the driver through device manager too.

For desktop cards it doesn't matter.

I've been running the drivers all weekend on my 8104. They are very very fast, but they do resurrect one bug. If you run at a non-native LCD resolution (say 1280x768) on the 8104 you get a white line, 1 pixel tall, at the bottom if the screen. I had this with the acer 4.x drivers shipped with the 8104. Updating to catalyst 5.3 (unian) fixed this. Catalyst 5.6 brought it back.
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