black screen with ati radeon 9200 on laptop

I have the same problem as many users experiencing black screen matter with a Radeon video card. I see the boot and it works also in safe mode. My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Can Microsoft ask ATI tp make us a proper driver to solve this issue ?
TX. Seb.

I had the same problem with an ATI Radeon X1300 PCI-E card. If you go to ATI's site you can download their Beta driver files for your video card. When installing the program chose "custom" and only install the beta driver files, for some reason Vista and ATI's Catalyst files don't seem to work well together.

"Seb_fr" wrote in message

I have the same problem as many users experiencing black screen matter with a Radeon video card. I see the boot and it works also in safe mode. My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Can Microsoft ask ATI tp make us a proper driver to solve this issue ?

I've had this happen once, so far. Using ATI 9700.
I just went into Personalize Appearance, right click on your desktop and look for "Personalize".
Then "Visual Appearance". Look for "Open Classic Appearance Properties" Click it.
In that box you will see "Windows Vista Aero", click it so that the option "Apply" becomes available.
Click apply, and you'll see "Please Wait". Your desktop shouldn't be black anymore. If that doesn't work you may want to try "Windows Vista Basic".
-Michael

"Rich066" wrote:

ATI's site you can download their Beta driver files for your video card. When installing the program chose "custom" and only install the beta driver files,

Unfortunatelly, even this solution doesn't work because the Catalyst driver executable tels me that it doesn't see any compatible equipment plugged. Maybe is it beaucause I can only start my Vista in Safe Mode...
Thanks anyway.

"Rich066" wrote:

ATI's site you can download their Beta driver files for your video card. When installing the program chose "custom" and only install the beta driver files,

Unfortunatelly, even this solution doesn't work because the Catalyst driver executable tels me that it doesn't see any compatible equipment plugged. Maybe is it beaucause I can only start my Vista in Safe Mode...
Thanks anyway.

Just disable the driver in safe mode, then log into regular mode and delete the driver, then use the ATI catalyst installer, and it should work just fine :)
"Seb_fr" wrote:

"Rich066" wrote:
ATI's site you can download their Beta driver files for your video card. When installing the program chose "custom" and only install the beta driver files,
Unfortunatelly, even this solution doesn't work because the Catalyst driver executable tels me that it doesn't see any compatible equipment plugged. Maybe is it beaucause I can only start my Vista in Safe Mode...
Thanks anyway.

Maybe all this futility you are experiencing is because ATI does not support your video card for Vista. From their own support page:
Product series supported: Radeon® 9500, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850 Radeon® X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900 series Mobility™ Radeon® 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800 Mobility™ Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800 CrossFire™ Xpress 3200 Radeon® Xpress 200, 200M FireGL™ V7350, V7300, V7100, V5100, V5000, V3200, V3100 Mobility™ FireGL® V5200, V5000, V3200, V3100 FireMV™ 2200 PCIE, FireMV™ 2400 PCIE
There is no reference to the 9200 series listed.
"Seb_fr" wrote in message I have the same problem as many users experiencing black screen matter with a Radeon video card. I see the boot and it works also in safe mode. My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Can Microsoft ask ATI tp make us a proper driver to solve this issue ?
TX. Seb.

Vista actually has a driver for the Mobility 9200 on disk. But to get to it you have to update your driver, then click on search my computer, uncheck searching for only compatible drivers, then search through the ATI list of drivers. MS actually has 2 drivers for the 9200 and with my 9000 (also on the computer), they worked well. But don't expect "glass".
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

Maybe all this futility you are experiencing is because ATI does not support your video card for Vista. From their own support page:
Product series supported: Radeon® 9500, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850 Radeon® X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900 series Mobility™ Radeon® 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800 Mobility™ Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800 CrossFire™ Xpress 3200 Radeon® Xpress 200, 200M FireGL™ V7350, V7300, V7100, V5100, V5000, V3200, V3100 Mobility™ FireGL® V5200, V5000, V3200, V3100 FireMV™ 2200 PCIE, FireMV™ 2400 PCIE
There is no reference to the 9200 series listed.
"Seb_fr" wrote in message I have the same problem as many users experiencing black screen matter with a Radeon video card. I see the boot and it works also in safe mode. My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Can Microsoft ask ATI tp make us a proper driver to solve this issue ?
TX. Seb.