All you have said about device manager -> display adapters -> etc.
I think people on this forum know how to mod driver, or can retrieve information for do this, but the "normal" people don't know, and when you install an OS and connect to internet it download your display adapter driver, is different than it doesn't. Hi, all you have written is good, but the bad thing is that we don't have yet native driver for our OS. The Experience Index in Windows 7 and Vista are the same for me. I have the correct driver installed for my GPU, and my Experience Index is 2.0 for Graphics (I have a earlier version GPU than you do). I never had to use Compatibilty Mode, and I received no errors. I had UAC turned off when I modded the ATI driver as per the instructions from Mobility Modder.
Note that when I installed the modded Full Driver Suite from ATI, I had turned UAC off until I was done and had rebooted. I have the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, so I have no interest in installing the driver for the X1400. I did install the Full Driver Suite and mod it, so maybe that is why. I see the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 (note Mobility) in the signed driver list, following your method as above. went from an experience index of 1.0 to 3.7 overall graphics and 3.6 Gaming graphics on the index.
I went to device manager, selected the display adapter, selected properties -> update driver -> Browse my computer for updated software -> Let me pick from a list -> Unchecked "show compatible hardware" -> Found ATI X1300 (pretty similar) and installed. sorry but the x1300 driver seems to work pretty good and now I have a decent graphics score and the aero glass windows.
Too bad I overwrote the disk I originally used for Win7 to upgrade through Windows Update, I could have probably found the driver on the disk and zipped it up for you. Driver failed! But not to just quit I went to device manager, selected the display adapter, selected properties -> update driver -> Browse my computer for updated software -> Let me pick from a list -> Unchecked "show compatible hardware" -> Found ATI X1300 (pretty similar) and installed. Then I tried compatability mode knowing it does install for vista, This time it installed everything but the driver. But since I am doing this for testing purposes I decided to try the mobility modder (to mod the driver) but still no luck. For now the only way is download the driver for Vista from Dell website, but the question remains: "Why the driver disappeared?"ĭang, ya it didn't install the driver, works for Vista, not win7, even though it is a win7 driver. I downloaded and installed mobility radeon for XP, but it appears broken, in fact the resolution of screen is at the minimum, and there is a "!" on the driver. Update: The driver linked by you doesn't works (it doesn't recognised my X1400 because is only for HD2XXX, HD3XXX and HD4XXX). P.S.:Waiting for an explanation about the disappearing of the driver from Windows Update. After I download it, I try this and I write down. I think is so comfortable, but only a problem could be. Hi, I think it can helps me, also it's a very good news that I can install the latest driver without problem, but I want to know why a week ago it update with Windows Update, and now this update disappeared. You should go to ATI website to download the right driver for this card and install it in compatibility mode for the OS XP? Here is an explanation you could read (translation available) about the projects of ATI (fr) or elsewhere in the web I hope this helps.