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Want to Upgrade 745 SFF XP OS to Win 7.
MS upgrade adviser finds 745 ATI Radeon X1300Pro Video card XP driver not compatible with win 7. AMD says X1300 is compatible. Can't find a Win7 driver for X1300. What to do? What would happen if tried to install win 7 with incompatible XP driver.? Fail and need to reinstall XP?
Philip_Yip
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September 14th, 2014 11:00
There is a Windows 7 driver in the Microsoft Update Catalog.
The Microsoft Update Catalog requires use of Internet Explorer:
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=x1300
See here for more details:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/downloading-drivers-checking-hardware-ids-and-downloading-and-installing-dell-system-drivers-in-the-correct-order/the-microsoft-update-catalog/
speedstep
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September 13th, 2014 19:00
There are no win7 drivers for X850 X1300 X1400 X1600 X1800 X1900 X2000.
You will need to download the Vista Drivers
Latest Bios is also recommended
This package provides the BIOS update for Dell OptiPlex 745 and is supported on OptiPlex and Latitude running the following Windows Operating Systems: Windos and DOS.More details
This package provides the AMD ATI 256MB Radeon X850 XT 256MB Platinum Edition/ X300 SE/X600 SE 128MB Hypermemory PCI-Express X16 (DVI/VGA/TV out) / X600 256MB Hypermemory/ X1900XTX 512MB/X1300 Pro 256MB Graphics Driver and is supported on OptiPlex, XPS Desktop, Inspiron Desktop, Precision, Vostro Desktop and Dimension models that are running the following Windows Operating System: Vista.More details
This package provides the AMD ATI Radeon x1300/AMD ATI X1300 Pro/Radeon X1900XTX 512MB/AMD ATI X1300 Pro/X1300 Pro 256MB Graphics Driver and is supported on OptiPlex, XPS Desktop, Inspiron Desktop, Precision and Dimension models that are running the following Windows Operating System: VISTA (64 -bit).More details
speedstep
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September 15th, 2014 12:00
The Update Catalog does not have a driver that will EVER work with an X1300. These cards are PRE Catalyst 10 Legacy.
AMD has moved a number of DX9 ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerators products to a legacy driver support structure. This change impacts Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux distributions. AMD has moved to a legacy software support structure for these graphics accelerator products in an effort to better focus development resources on future products.
The following products have been moved to the legacy software support structure (including Mobile and All-in-Wonder Variants):
ATI Radeon 9500 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
ATI Radeon X550 Series
ATI Radeon X600 Series
ATI Radeon X700 Series
ATI Radeon X800 Series
ATI Radeon X850 Series
ATI Radeon X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series
ATI Radeon X1800 Series
ATI Radeon X1900 Series
ATI Radeon X1950 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series
ATI Radeon X2100 Series
Note: AMD’s DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7. If the user chooses to, they can install the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista graphics driver under Windows 7. Please be aware that none of the new Windows 7 graphics driver (WDDM 1.1) features are supported (as the Windows Vista level graphics driver is limited to WDDM 1.0 level support).
Using the ATI Catalyst 9.x Windows Vista driver under Windows 7 is not officially supported by AMD, and as such AMD will not provide any form of customer support for users running in this configuration.
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September 19th, 2014 00:00
Thanks Speedstep, your 9/15 post received today 9/18. Stumbling around the net after my original post re X1300 win 7 incompatibility, I did discover that AMD had acquired ATI and found the nifty AMD "5 step, select a driver site" at http://support.amd.com/en-us/download.
Your advice to choose the Vista driver at step 4 is helpful. The pull-down menu for step 4 also offers a win 7 32 bit choice, but if the Vista driver does the job, I am happy.
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September 19th, 2014 01:00
Nothing more to add
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