ati radeon x1600 driver not working

i have a radeon x1600 desktop graphic card which worked fine with windows 7. the driver was found automatically by windows update and the driver on the website worked also. in windows 8 it wont find the driver no mater how i try it and the website legacy driver wont work either

I had same problem but i solved it a few minutes ago. This is the way:
Install 10-2_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc (here it is: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/10-2_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc.exe )
Open "screen resolution" -> "advanced settings" -> "properties" -> driver -> "update driver" -> "browse my computer for driver software" -> "let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" -> "have disk" -> "browse" -> go to "C:\ATI\Support\10-02_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc\Packages\Drivers\Display\LH_INF" [LH6A_INF for 64 bit {i think}] and choose "CL_95951.inf" -> done
I hope, it will work.

I'm sorry but it shows:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it.
The driver selected for this device does not suport this version of Windows".

Any ideas for it?

trubul said:

I'm sorry but it shows:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it.
The driver selected for this device does not suport this version of Windows".

Any ideas for it?

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Driver is obviously an earlier version.

Try installing it in win 7 compatibility mode.

To install an older driver in win 7 you need to install it in compatibility mode.


To install in compatibility mode right click the installer, go to properties, then compatibility. Choose the appropriate OS


Compatibility Mode - Windows 7 Forums

Hey, thanks for answer.
I deinstalled all ATI programs, cleaned drive and registry with CCleaner, installed ATI how you said, then tried to install driver.

And still same problem.

Maybe problem is with CL_95951.inf file?

Greets.

I got my old X1450 working with a similar method to csae, but I, at the browse point, just pointed it at C:/ATI and set it to search subfolders - found & installed a driver no problem.

Then the PSU blew up......


...or was it the motherboard???

Heigh-ho!

MadHorseman, after your method it shows
"Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date.
Microsoft Basic Display Adapter".

So I still have this 1024x768 resolution, and nothing changed.

Greets.

PS: I even tried to change driver file, editing "windows 6.0" to "windows 6.1" or "6.2" but still the same...

I installed drivers in xp sp3 compatibility mode.
Do you use 64 bit version?

Wow, that was crazy. But I've found solution.
1. Download ATI Vista32-64 driver from ati site.
2. Install it with Compatibility Mode with Vista (not XP, not 7 - cause it showed communique as above).
3. Here I tried to install drivers (repacked from ati site, downloaded Win7 from Toshiba site and downloaded Vista from Toshiba) /cause my notebook is Toshiba.
It didn't work, it had loop --> install ATI Manager, it installed "sth" but destination folder was empty.
4. So I tried your method csae. First with Win7 .inf file --> same as above. Next I even tried with WinXP driver --> BSOD after restart, I couldn't launch notebook (BSOD loop). So I needed to reformat it, lol.

And finally, without any hope, I tried same with Win Vista .inf file from Toshiba site.
And it works!

Thanks all for help!

PS. I use Win 8 32 bit.
PPS. Don't try to use Mobility Modder - doesn't work on Windows 8.

There's an article here about Windows 8 on 2006 iMac 20 in which he also solved the ATI X1600 driver problem

/bin/tim: Windows 8 on 2006 iMac 20

Yes! I had the same issue for a Lenovo t60 with ATI X1400 and a WSXGA+ Screen, W8 always saying the installed basic driver was fine.

... finally solved in analogy to csae's solution!

This is the correct driver for an ATI X1400 on Lenovo: Video driver (ATI Mobility Radeon, FireGL PCI Express-2) for Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad R60, T60, T60p, Z61m, Z61p ("Video driver (ATI Mobility Radeon, FireGL PCI Express-2) for Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad R60, T60, T60p, Z61m, Z61").

-> so I think it would be a good idea to a) use a computer manufacturer's driver, not ATI's legacy versions and b) the VISTA version (at least in my case, as notebook was delivered with vista)

I uninstalled all ATI stuff I had installed in the meantime.
And yes, as trubul says, mobility modder's no good. Uninstalled that as well. Still have to get rid of .net.

- Installed the above mentioned driver

- Picked it from C:\DRIVERS\WIN\VIDEO\Packages\Drivers\Display\LH_INF

- It worked

Thanks to the posters above!

I have a HP laptop with the Radeon X1600 Mobility graphics card. CSAE's solution did not work for me, but after reading the solution referenced above by imacuser, I tried that and solved the problem. Turns out the X1600 Mobility card is not referenced in the .inf file, so Windows 8 does not recognize the driver as valid for that card. The solution is to edit the .inf file to insert the X1600 Mobility card. See

/bin/tim: Windows 8 on 2006 iMac 20

Also be aware that there is another driver file on the ATI Legacy site with a very similar file name. Be sure to get the exact file specified by csae.

I did not have to install in compatibity mode. It worked fine in Win 8 after editing the .inf file.