Vista 5308 on Inspiron E1705 w/ RADEON X1400 -- video driver problem

I have an E1505 with X1400 video card running Windows XP Media Center that came with the laptop. I can not get any drivers to install from ati.com, not even the standard windowx xp media center drivers for radeon. Help?

Thanks for the reply.  I found the same thing - can't get the X1400 driver from ati.com to install on XP either.  That's definitely a strong clue.

If I knew why the drivers don’t install from the ATI support site, I might be able to get their Vista driver to install.

I downloaded the driver from Dell’s support site and installed it on a clean XP install with no problem.  Go figure.

Did you try Omega Drivers?

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

It seems that ATI's drivers do not support the laptop platform and only Dell's drivers will work. However, dell updates them so infrequently. I found a 3rd party driver site for nvidia laptop cards such as the 6800go and 7800gtx that updates them frequently but none for ATI. Anyone know of any?

Nice, thanks for the find. Do you know how to tell what versions of the catalyst drivers dell's version is? The numbering system seems to be very different where Dell's start with 8 and the ATI's start with 3.

Not sure how to tell what version dell uses, but I'm betting they are behind by about 6 months to a year.