ATI HD 2600 PRO WINDOWS 7 64 BIT BOOTCAMP DRIVER ERROR

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2319207

another forum post on the same problem i am having! by the way the suggested fix at the bottom of that forum post does NOT work!!! i have tried multiple drivers,all different systems 32/64 vista/7 etc. even the dedicated bootcamp drivers that worked before with xp from the ati site. we need a new better solution to this problem!

that seems to be another mobility driver!! it is NOT a mobility card!!! it is the ati radeon hd 2600 PRO 256 MB graphics card! what exactly is that file you sent me to download? is it a hotfix for the catalyst error? we just need a way to install the 64 bit windows 7 driver for the hd 2600 pro so that it is no longer recognized as the mobility XT and will now run as the correct radeon hd 2600 PRO(desktop card NOT laptop/mobility one)

sounds great! thank you very much for your help but can anyone confirm this is truly updating the card correctly to the right ati radeon hd 2600 pro and not just tricking the inf file into displaying it an an ati radeon hd 2600 pro???? i just uninstalled windows 7 bc i was so sick of this graphics driver error and couldnt play **** with it as a mobility card so i reinstalled windows xp sp3. but now that this possible fix has arrived i am tempted to reinstall windows 7 and try it out! but i just wanna be sure its the correct fix. other than that i cant believe you figured this hack out! i have looked everytwhere online and even emailed amd,their response was totally wrong they misunderstood what i was asking. morons! how bout thisDRBST,can you run some benchmarks now that you have updated the correct driver and post back what the results were,this will give us a better idea that the card is performing the way it should???? thanks again sir. also please email me with your email so that in the future when we got to update the drivers again and happen to encounter any more problems, i can communicate with you bc on the aple communites site you cant direct message any user. very stupid. most of the time you cant even reply if the post has been archived.

i just uninstalled windows xp sp3 and deleted the bootcamp partition,used bootcamp assistant to reformat to the coorect size i has windows 7 before,and now am currently restoring my aufgust 4th windows 7 system with winclone. yes,i got it working in lion! go to http://roaringapps.com/app:904 to download the modfied winlcone 2.3 version that works with lion. for all you windows 7 users,uncheck all the boxes in the winclone preferences but leave the radio button clicked for use mountable filesystem,uncheck compressed dmg! should work as usual to backup and restore windows 7 bootcamp partitions as before. my questio to "DRBST" i will attempt to do the modifed inf file instructions but for those having errors you and i could simply upload the enitre ATI folder after its been modified to work correctly and other could just paste it over their existing ATI folders at the root of theirt windows 7 disks,then skip to step5(updating the graphics driver,when they crowse to the modifed files we made,it should go through like it should. will make it very easy for others to do if they arent as tech savy as we are. thanks again sir for all your help and time in this matter. God Bless You! so excited if this works bc now instead of windows xp,i can run windows 7,utilizing my entire 4 gigs not xp's 3 gigs of ram and use the latest ati/amd driver for my correct ati radeon hd 2600 pro and continue to play the latest games via bootcamp even with my 4 year old imac!!! to DRBST look me up on facebook and i will most definitely add you as a friend this way we can communicate without putting our emails on here for all to see. my ichat name is justRSX,hit me up on there and i will send you my name on facebook! thanks again for everything.

So far so good,it was a little tricky but I go through it. I was even able to use winclone 2.3 to restore my windows 7 backup over my newly created xp one,winclone still works with lion,u just have to uncheck all the boxes in the preferences except for the radio button that says make a mountable dmg.download the hacked update winclone 2.3 from roaringapps.com. Cant belive we cant direct message each other through here. I will wait until were both on ichar to exchange contact info.ill leave ichat online for the next few days.what is ur ichat screenname? To install the 64 bit bootcamp drivers against apples wishes,the error that sayscant be installed on this hardware,u simply browse to the disk u made with lion with updated drivers,click open and go to the bin64 folder,then to packages,then to drivers,right click and select troubleshoot compatibility,let it complete then proceed with the install process.it worked for me with all previous bootcamp driver updates. The next problem I have is even though I updated with software update to the latest bootcamp drivers,i am showing two sets installed in the afd/remove programs list.almost like the updated drivers didnt overwrite the previous 2.0 drivers,therefor there are 2 sets running,could cause conflicts. Tonight I want to try and click uninstall remove on the bootcamp 2.0 driver package in the list and see if the older set goes away and then when I click about bootcamp control panel,it should display at least bootcamp 3.2 not 2.0. Once we are in contact I will send u whatever apps u want,i have a few windows 7 utilities that are priveless and keep windows running smoothly and efficiently.such as tuneup utilities 2011 ,advanced registry cleaner pro,and revo uninstaller pro.also paragon manager11 pro can backup,reatore and repair full clones of apple bootcamp partitions,! Last night I got copycat X which im told can also make bootable clones of bootcamp partitins,but when I ran it,bootcam) doesnt show up as a volume to click backup or clone with.i will play around more when I have time.winclone does seem to still work,if u do it the way I have been,but I want another cloning utility to use also,and one that isnt duscontinued like winclone and recieves regular updates.

eDamn it! I had a feeling that the hack was only renaming it and not actually installing the driver so that it can perform at the correct specs. I may just restore xp and continue where I left off.at least I know I can get it to work right in xp. To tell u the truth,the 64 bit windows 7 runs slower than the 32 bit xp sp3! Maybe if we can download the windows xp 64 bit bootcamp dedicated driver and extract the lines of code from that inf file and then use it with ur process it may run correctly.**** I wish someone from ati could actually speak english and understand our situation.this is their fault the drivers dont install correctly.dont they test that ****? Do u know any smart gpu guys that could help us?? This is getting ridiculous,if it would only install like it did in xp all would be fine.i think its due to the fact that windows 7 ***** and isnt at a point with sp1 where things work as they should maybe with sp2 it wil be resolved.thanx for ur help,at least the teo of us know what is going on and what needs to happen to make ecerything work right.have u tried running a deceny game that ran well when we had the xp hack we did previously.ive only tried one game and it ran choppy,slightly better after our mod but still not like I remember itto be

BTW check out this post about the same issue with the grapics card eror and the fact that this guy has 32 bit windows 7 ultimate,he claims it installed perfectly and is getting the higher fps with the correct driver installed. should i reformat my windows 7 partiton to 32 bit instead of 64 and then try it? may be our best option,maybe our 4 year old imacs cant hang with windows 7 64 bit.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2387028

check this out

i am going to paste something interesting i found out by checking my older working windows xp sp3 radeon hd 2600 pro drivers packages/displaydriver/cog file when opened in notepad. note the difference in specs between the working version from xp and the mofidfied string we pasted in the inf file to get the driver to install in windows 7 64 bit big difference in settings! should we try your method again but paste my best known working configurtion settings into the new 64 bit driver package with notepad and see if it not only installs correctly as before with your trick but tells the card the right clock speeds and max memory to use when palying games?????????????????? may work

ok so i just ran a benchmark with the modified driver installed same as before after your hack applied. these are the results!

could it be that the 2600 XT is a better card then the HD 2600 pro???? i guess it is bc its not the mobility version. i am so confused at this point. all i know is way back when i first had bootcamp,gaming performance sucked. then i found the hack to enable it as the correct hd 2600 pro and my performance tripled. now even with the modified driver install it seems as sluggish as when i first payed games with bootcamp a few years ago before the hack to change it to the correct card. i wish i remembered the benchmark results when i was playing certain games,so i could reinstall them and run the benchmarks again and compare them. i have nothing to compare them to since i dont remember. **** it please help us apple and amd!!! all of you out there reading these posts by us,put some work into this and together maybe we can fix this issue so that all of us can play games as we did before upgrading to lion!

ok so i installed the latest mobility driver and then ran the same benchmark test. same results for both! mother@#$$$! but heres something interesting i went to the page that the benchmark program i used to see the results of the mobilty xt vs the hd 2600 por and they differ by 10 points! not much but thats obviously what we are shooting for and why our games ran better after the correct driver was installed and working as it should. see the attached pic! where do we go from here??? should we try what i said earlier about pasting in the script from the working xp specs into the 64 bit display driver with your hack? i think that may be our last hope to get this ****** working lol.