9100 IGP on Vista

[nobody_here]

Is there a way to force a resolution and refresh rate that I know my monitor supports and I know my onboard video supports, but doesn't show up using the default Vista VGA card and monitor drivers?

I have tried a couple "refresh force" type freeware programs, they dont work....and there is no Vista support for the onboard video for this chipset, funny thing is, there are Vista specific drivers for the ATI SMBus chipset, just not the graphics chip.

Figured there should be a couple .ini files that can be edited to add custom resolutions and refresh rates, I just dont know which ones to change.

 

[nobody_here]

seriously no?

 

[armyoffoo]

NVIDIA Control Panel, Manage custom resolutions in Advanced View. ATI, dunno.

 

[nobody_here]

NVIDIA Control Panel, Manage custom resolutions in Advanced View. ATI, dunno.

ok, let me make this clear, but thank you for trying

i have the ATI 9100IGP chipset on my motherboard

i am using the onboard RS300(?) video

there is not a Vista driver for the onboard video so it is using the default Vista driver

the default Vista driver does not recognize all supported resolutions, specifically 1440x900 and does not recognize all supported refresh rates, namely 75Hz

i want to run 1440x900@75Hz which my monitor has no problem doing, but the default Vista driver does not allow this and i want to figure out how to edit the files needed to make those options an option

thanks

 

[Evil]

? That videcard is listed in one of the latest ATI Catalyst drivers, 8.10, not quite the newest but I looked at the documentation and that card is listed.

If you are having trouble installing a driver to your laptop it's because unlike Nvidia, ATI doesn't support laptop videocards and you have to get them from the laptop maker if you can't do that you can modify ATI's standard drivers with a tool such as this: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

Try that utility out and follow the directions carefully before totally giving up. I had to use that on my Laptop as well as I have a aging ATI 9600 Pro Turbo on mine which also has 0% support from ATI.

 

[nobody_here]

it's not a laptop, its a SHuttle ST62K....so i cant easily replace the motherboard to get away from this problematic chipset either....it has other annoying issues like with the USB controller...sometimes devices are recognized fine, sometimes i have to reboot the PC with the USB devices connected to get them to show up......i really hate this chipset, had the same problems on XP, so i know it's not Vista

i was able to go into the device manager, tell it i wanted to update the driver for the graphics device, told it i wanted to specify the make/model, and told it to use the Mobility 9000 driver and that got me the 1440x900 resolution, but i still cannot get the 75Hz refresh....but this is a MAJOR improvement so far

i looked at the release notes for the latest 8.12 vista 32bit driver, and the 9100IGP chipset was not in the supported device list......can you link me to the release notes of the version you said you DID see it in?