Need help with Asus 5750 drivers...
By
Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2010-04-21 19:51 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Are you unable to install the 10.3 Catalysts directly from ATI's site rather than using Asus'?
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This. Don't bother with the drivers from Asus, be that on disc or from their site. Go straight to the ati site and download the latest Catalyst drivers.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Are you unable to install the 10.3 Catalysts directly from ATI's site rather than using Asus'?
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Thank you. Went to the ATI website and got the CCC and drivers straight off them (10.3 Catalysts). Downloaded them and installed them and now the beast is purring like it was before hand. And I'm back at 1440 x 900 (recommend resolution for my monitor).
The only thing is now I'm looking at the utilities on the disk (SmartDoctor and GamerOSD) and wondering if I should even bother trying to use them.
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So you got the card with the silly fan shroud. |
Originally Posted by Dark Shade
I managed to obtain the Asus HD 5750 card.... they call it the EAH5750 Formula card. Guess what? It actually fitted into my BTX case (Thanks Dell for making finding a card that fit such a nightmare).
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It's plastic isn't it, if it was metal and actually a functional part of the heat sink then I might have a little more respect for it.
Don't blame Dell for buying into Intel's "motherboard and case layout of the future". It sort of made sense when it was first introduced, back when Pentium 4s roamed the planet and even the fastest video cards were short and took a single slot.
Anyways you have a bloody business Dell, don't you know there's no gaming in business.
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Metal? On a video card? Shirley! You're jesting! |
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
So you got the card with the silly fan shroud.
It's plastic isn't it, if it was metal and actually a functional part of the heat sink then I might have a little more respect for it. Don't blame Dell for buying into Intel's "motherboard and case layout of the future". It sort of made sense when it was first introduced, back when Pentium 4s roamed the planet and even the fastest video cards were short and took a single slot. Anyways you have a bloody business Dell, don't you know there's no gaming in business. |
I had to make a decision on the spot and it stood the greatest chance of fitting into the case.
I didn't know it was a business Dell back when I got it. I didn't know half the issues involving Dell. I was given a spec sheet and a price and 5 minutes to make a decision. The spec sheet was a word processed doc of what was inside. When I said yes, I got 2 boxes with Dell on the outside. When I got back home, I did confirm that everything was legit... but still nowhere did it say Business or BTX. The only good thing is I still have about 2 or 3 years warranty on the thing. Still I probably should have saved my money and DIY it.
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Well Optiplex is generally considered Dell's business and school line of PCs in the US, don't know about the rest of the world. My local library has a slew of identical Dell Optiplex PCs.
That doesn't mean you don't find them in homes. Heck my parents still use the Dell Optiplex they got with a new SUV back in 90s (Pentium II 450MHz running Win 98 SE, they may finally upgrade that antique sometime this year).
Back in 2003/4 when Intel was pushing BTX it sort of made sense to arrange the motherboard so the things that generated the most heat could be placed in the path of one centralized stream of air from the front of the case. And it wasn't just Dell that bought into it, so did HP/Compaq and Gateway.
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I managed to obtain the Asus HD 5750 card.... they call it the EAH5750 Formula card. Guess what? It actually fitted into my BTX case (Thanks Dell for making finding a card that fit such a nightmare).
Sweet!
Fired up Win 7.... automatic downloaded drivers... and it was like stepping back in time to VGA era. It had kindly gone and fetched a standard generic vga driver.
This can't be right. Particularly since I've gone back to 800 x 600 from 1440 x 900.
So I put the CD that came with the card. It had on it the "Windows 7/Windows 7x64 8.66" Asus drivers for my card. Let it run... it installs ati Catalysis Controller of unknown version, which I think is more in keeping with the card abilities.
It asks to restart the computer.... reboot.... Blue Screen Of Death.
*Head Desk* *Head Desk* *Head Desk*
Reboot -> Automatic Win 7 Repair -> Reboot -> Black Screen except for mouse cursor.
*sigh*
Reboot-> Safe mode -> everything comes up normal this time. Check driver... Generic VGA driver.
Reboot -> Normal mode ... check video driver -> Generic VGA driver and everything seems fine except screen resolution is at 800 x 600 and there is no signs of the ati stuff.
So now I'm at the Asus support site down loading the drivers off the net... thing is there are multiple versions of them.
Any one got any advice? I'm getting them all and trying them one at a time... maybe something will work.
I use to know Windows XP like the back of my hand... problems like this would be easy... you'd go in with a driver cleaner and yank out the problem driver and roll back the system to a earlier point and then get the latest from the net and pray it worked. Most of the time you were 'cooking with gas' then, as my father would say. Otherwise you'd get start with the tweaks. But Win 7 is a different beast... I'm not confident about it... so... Help?
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