Driverheaven Mobility Mod Tool

patje · Apr 18, 2003, 11:49 AM

I am proud to present Driverheaven's newest baby called: DH Mobility Mod Tool

This tool modifies a catalyst set to support mobility chipsets.

check it out overhere : On my modding section

Right now the tool makes a catalyst set available for the following cards:

Mobility Fire GL 9000
Mobility Radeon 9000
Radeon Mobility
Radeon Mobility 7500
Radeon Mobility 7500 GL
IGP 340M
IGP 320M

You can use it with every version of catalyst available and with future versions, so for all mobility owners it's a "must have"

schwarz2 · Apr 18, 2003, 12:23 PM

well patje let me be the first to say GREAT WORK. I'm really impressed with how you followed through with everything... glad that you happened across driverheaven and glad to have been any help to you in the past as you are certainly a help to each and every one of us mobility users. Keep it up and Thanks again

schwarz2

patje · Apr 18, 2003, 12:33 PM

Well, schwarz2

I said it before and i'll say it again

It was you who got me started modding drivers in the first place.
So I wanna thank you again for your help.

everything for the community!

Greetz

Patje

peroni · Apr 18, 2003, 01:35 PM

Congrats man, outstanding job!!

Skillz · Apr 18, 2003, 09:25 PM

Thanks for the great Tool Patje (and the rest who worked on this great tool),

Going to download it right now and keep it
in a very safe place

I have a question tho:

Does this tool also change some other parameters in the .INF file(s) (Optimalisation?)
or does it just change the settings needed to get the Catalyst drivers working
on the laptops/notebooks?

patje · Apr 20, 2003, 11:06 AM

Skillz,

Good question, For the moment the modder only mods the drivers to make them installable.
Maybe future relases will contain optimalizations?? who knowes??

Greetz
Patje

ReV · Apr 22, 2003, 10:32 PM

Hi,

I found this board on my 'quest for the holy ATI mobility driver'. I have a Compaq 1525EA with a ATI IGP 340M. I tried to install both the premodded driverset and the original 3.2 Catalyst drivers, altered using the dhmodtool. Unfortunately, I keep getting the 'inf error - video driver not found' error when executing Setup.exe.

I have done this using both the standard vga drivers and the winxp wdm drivers.

Thnx in advance,

ReV

patje · Apr 23, 2003, 09:24 AM

Rev,

Nice to have you on the forum. Your quest will soon come to an end ...

I'm looking into a way to make the igp installable.
Could you try to install it as a RADEON VE? you can choose this by manually updating drives trough the device manager.
Select search for drivers....
select specify a location...
browse for the modded inf file (for win2k = C2_xxx.inf for XP = CX_xxx.inf) and then you'll get a list of all the ati cards.
Choose the radeon VE card and install it.
Or try to select the IGP 340 and install it.

PS: if the radeon VE is not in the list, try using an original set

Hope it helps

Patje

ReV · Apr 23, 2003, 12:00 PM

Wow, it worked

I deleted C2_xxx.inf just to make sure there weren't any conflicts. Then i tried to do a manual install. I didn't have the choice between IGP 340M or Radeon VE, WinXP automatically chose the first one. But it works, that's all i need

Thnx a lot for the prog and the help, patje

ReV

patje · Apr 23, 2003, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ReV
Wow, it worked

well, im glad but i now i don't know what worked.

did you select the radeon ve or the igp??

please post me back on this cause its important

thnx Rev

ReV · Apr 23, 2003, 12:03 PM

Sorry, i used the quick reply and couldn't post a lot. I edited my previous post.

PS: If you're still in need of testers: always willing to help

patje · Apr 23, 2003, 12:05 PM

Damn, i was hoping you got it to work on a win2k.

nevermind that, I'm glad I could help you out!

cheers m8

thnx for the fast reply

ReV · Apr 23, 2003, 12:11 PM

I could try to make a dualboot this weekend and test the drivers in Win2k ...

ReV

URWORSTENEMY · Apr 26, 2003, 11:55 PM

Way to go Patje

Congrats on a great app

nme

Dave123 · Apr 30, 2003, 06:05 AM

It fixed problems that I had with my Radeon 9000.Thank you for a great program.

MoinMan · Apr 30, 2003, 10:22 PM

Thx a lot! Works for my Mobility 7500

JRCOE · May 1, 2003, 04:20 PM

Works awesome with my IGP 320M. Unbelievable. Thanks Patje.

patje · May 15, 2003, 11:00 PM

btw, it still works with the 3.4!! whohow!!!

FoXDaV · May 16, 2003, 12:10 AM

really?

If i try your mobility mod tool I got an error message after the first dialog "modded the install.ini".

I used another Mobility Mod Tool and it seems to work, but after the installation and the restart I had a bluescreen.
I restartet my nootbook and I had the same bluescreen...
The 3.2 works fine...but not the 3.4

tdd · May 16, 2003, 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by patje
btw, it still works with the 3.4!! whohow!!!

Hi, patje:

I'm going to load the 3.4's on my Sager tomorrow and I have 2 questions:

1. Ok to use the Mobility Mod Tool with 3.4's?

2. To uninstall the old drivers, do I use the same routine> uninstall thru contol panel, follow the instructions in DriverCleaner, etc?

Thanks for your help.

patje · May 16, 2003, 08:27 AM

I'll tell you guys what i did.

I deleted the C:\Ati folder.
Downloaded the 3.4
extracted them and launched setup until it asks to install the driver.
I started the DH Mobili modder
I select the new ATI folder (for me its C:\ati)
start modding, went fine for me.
launched the setup again form c:\ati\...

reboot

Install control panel

reboot.

So did not uninstall older drivers, i never do that. I just overinstall.

foxdav, if you get the blue screen, you start the computer in save mode and try the above procedure in the exact same order.

Let me know if you find any problems

good luck

FoXDaV · May 16, 2003, 09:00 AM

First I started in SaveMode.
the I used your Mobility Mod Tool and after the first message it puts an error message "Laufzeitfehler 70: Zugriff verweigert" (I'm german).
I used the other tool....it worked....

Then I started setup.exe and the error "DirectX 8 not installed" was on the screen.

I have Direct X 9.0a

I ignored this message and then the message "Error, no videocard driver found" was shown.
I pusched [OK] and the installation aborted....

patje · May 16, 2003, 09:06 AM

Foxdav,

Try updating the driver trough the device manager.
select video card, properties, driver, update driver.
specify the driver by browsing to the C2_xxx.inf or CX_xxx.inf

FoXDaV · May 16, 2003, 10:29 AM

Then it will install "MOBILITY READON 8500" but I have the M9.

The driverinstallation will copy ati2mtag.sys from "d:/driver/vga/r6xp/atidriver"...
if I select C:/ati/..... it works but then other files are needed and these files are not on my system. (example: atipdsxx.dll,.....)

It's crazy...

patje · May 16, 2003, 10:35 AM

That is indeed crazy.

sound like the mobility modder didn't complete its thing.
Maybe just maybe you should try to get Microsoft visual basic runtime dll.s which you can get here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;235420

i think thats what causing the mobility modder not to work.

if that doesn't work, send me an email to pvbeek@ncsbe.jnj.com today and i will send you the correct moddified files.

msix · May 17, 2003, 11:35 PM

Runtime error 429 - ActiveX component can´t create object

Thats the message i get from dhmodtool...

ASny solution to install the new CAT on my COMPAQ laptop?

Thanx in advance!!!

q20 · May 19, 2003, 04:31 PM

hey there patje

thanks for putting the time and effort into creating such a tool. unfortunately it doesn't work for me on my acer tm800 (mobility 9000), xp pro.

the tool appears to mod the file just fine, and the ati installer does its thing quite happily. unfortunately, when i reboot and get to my logon screen i am presented with a miriad of pretty serious $mft corruption messages and am unable to proceed. i reckon if i pressed 'ok' a hundrud thowsund times i'd stillnot reach my desktop, and have a beard.

i've tried the other mod tool, but that's hopeless too. yours seems to be doing the right thing, but obviously it's not happy on my system. i've tried quiter a few times now, but no joy (tried from the device manager too).

wtf?

any ideas... oh, i'm using a systernals.com pagedefrag tool that runs before logon (like chkdsk). just thought of it now... maybe that's causing problem (shouldn't think so), but i'm so bored of this problem now that i'm not too interested in trying again... it's quite nerve racking getting the pc nack up and running... sometimes it takes a couple of minutes, sometimes half an hour (seemingly random usefulness of 'last good configuration' and 'system restore'.

any help would be great.

thanks chap

noyz · May 20, 2003, 07:31 AM

Bro thanks for the modded driver u create, but i also need driver for Radeon mobility M6 for my windows 98, can anyone tell me where i can get it?

patje · May 20, 2003, 10:14 AM

to Q2O, you got yourself a strange problem my friend.
Seems like the registry gets corrupted after installing the driver.
How? i don't know
what can we do about it? dunno either.
here is what we will do: send me the install.ini, C2_someting.INF and the CX_something.INF to pvbeek@ncsbe.jnj.com i will check the files to see if they are modded correctly.
the files can be found in the C:\ati\somewhere folder.

to noyz: i'm sorry to say that i cannot support the win9x os. I reccomend (actually its your only choice)
to visit the support site from your laptop manufacturor.

Smoothbrain · May 22, 2003, 09:43 PM

Hi,

I have a dell laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000. I used the modder to install the new Omega drivers. The modder seemed to fix the necessary files, and it seemed that the drivers got installed. After re-boot, if I run dxdiag, it shows the driver as "vga.dll" and the control panel says that my card has a bad driver. I tried to manually install the driver from the device manager, but it didn't work. I have to confess I would rather stay with the old driver rather than re-install windows on my laptop, so if there's a work-around for this I would appreciate the help.

jason

Apr 18, 2003, 11:49 AM	#1
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Driverheaven Mobility Mod Tool I am proud to present Driverheaven's newest baby called: DH Mobility Mod Tool This tool modifies a catalyst set to support mobility chipsets. check it out overhere : On my modding section Right now the tool makes a catalyst set available for the following cards: Mobility Fire GL 9000 Mobility Radeon 9000 Radeon Mobility Radeon Mobility 7500 Radeon Mobility 7500 GL IGP 340M IGP 320M You can use it with every version of catalyst available and with future versions, so for all mobility owners it's a "must have"

Apr 18, 2003, 12:33 PM	Thread Starter #3
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Well, schwarz2 I said it before and i'll say it again It was you who got me started modding drivers in the first place. So I wanna thank you again for your help. everything for the community! Greetz Patje __________________

Apr 18, 2003, 01:35 PM	#4
peroni DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 591 Rep Power: 0	Congrats man, outstanding job!! __________________ Gaming Rig 3DMark2k1 PCMark2k2 The Server 3Dmark2k1 PCMark2k2 Notebook 3Dmark2k1 PCMark2k2

Apr 18, 2003, 09:25 PM	#5
Skillz DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 78 Rep Power: 0	Thank You Patje Thanks for the great Tool Patje (and the rest who worked on this great tool), Going to download it right now and keep it in a very safe place I have a question tho: Does this tool also change some other parameters in the .INF file(s) (Optimalisation?) or does it just change the settings needed to get the Catalyst drivers working on the laptops/notebooks?

Apr 20, 2003, 11:06 AM	Thread Starter #6
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Skillz, Good question, For the moment the modder only mods the drivers to make them installable. Maybe future relases will contain optimalizations?? who knowes?? Greetz Patje __________________

Apr 18, 2003, 12:23 PM	#2
schwarz2 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	well patje let me be the first to say GREAT WORK. I'm really impressed with how you followed through with everything... glad that you happened across driverheaven and glad to have been any help to you in the past as you are certainly a help to each and every one of us mobility users. Keep it up and Thanks again schwarz2

Apr 22, 2003, 10:32 PM	#7
ReV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I found this board on my 'quest for the holy ATI mobility driver'. I have a Compaq 1525EA with a ATI IGP 340M. I tried to install both the premodded driverset and the original 3.2 Catalyst drivers, altered using the dhmodtool. Unfortunately, I keep getting the 'inf error - video driver not found' error when executing Setup.exe. I have done this using both the standard vga drivers and the winxp wdm drivers. Thnx in advance, ReV Last edited by ReV; Apr 22, 2003 at 10:40 PM.

Apr 23, 2003, 09:24 AM	Thread Starter #8
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Rev, Nice to have you on the forum. Your quest will soon come to an end ... I'm looking into a way to make the igp installable. Could you try to install it as a RADEON VE? you can choose this by manually updating drives trough the device manager. Select search for drivers.... select specify a location... browse for the modded inf file (for win2k = C2_xxx.inf for XP = CX_xxx.inf) and then you'll get a list of all the ati cards. Choose the radeon VE card and install it. Or try to select the IGP 340 and install it. PS: if the radeon VE is not in the list, try using an original set Hope it helps Patje __________________

Apr 23, 2003, 12:00 PM	#9
ReV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Wow, it worked I deleted C2_xxx.inf just to make sure there weren't any conflicts. Then i tried to do a manual install. I didn't have the choice between IGP 340M or Radeon VE, WinXP automatically chose the first one. But it works, that's all i need Thnx a lot for the prog and the help, patje ReV

Apr 23, 2003, 12:03 PM	#11
ReV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Sorry, i used the quick reply and couldn't post a lot. I edited my previous post. PS: If you're still in need of testers: always willing to help

Apr 23, 2003, 12:05 PM	Thread Starter #12
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Damn, i was hoping you got it to work on a win2k. nevermind that, I'm glad I could help you out! cheers m8 thnx for the fast reply __________________

Apr 23, 2003, 12:11 PM	#13
ReV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	I could try to make a dualboot this weekend and test the drivers in Win2k ... ReV

Apr 26, 2003, 11:55 PM	#14
URWORSTENEMY nme Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Behind You!! Posts: 389 Rep Power: 0	Way to go Patje Congrats on a great app nme

Apr 30, 2003, 06:05 AM	#15
Dave123 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	It fixed problems that I had with my Radeon 9000.Thank you for a great program.

Apr 30, 2003, 10:22 PM	#16
MoinMan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Thx a lot! Works for my Mobility 7500

May 1, 2003, 04:20 PM	#17
JRCOE DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	GREAT JOB! Works awesome with my IGP 320M. Unbelievable. Thanks Patje.

May 15, 2003, 11:00 PM	Thread Starter #18
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	btw, it still works with the 3.4!! whohow!!! __________________

May 16, 2003, 12:10 AM	#19
FoXDaV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	really? If i try your mobility mod tool I got an error message after the first dialog "modded the install.ini". I used another Mobility Mod Tool and it seems to work, but after the installation and the restart I had a bluescreen. I restartet my nootbook and I had the same bluescreen... The 3.2 works fine...but not the 3.4

May 16, 2003, 08:27 AM	Thread Starter #21
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	I'll tell you guys what i did. I deleted the C:\Ati folder. Downloaded the 3.4 extracted them and launched setup until it asks to install the driver. I started the DH Mobili modder I select the new ATI folder (for me its C:\ati) start modding, went fine for me. launched the setup again form c:\ati\... reboot Install control panel reboot. So did not uninstall older drivers, i never do that. I just overinstall. foxdav, if you get the blue screen, you start the computer in save mode and try the above procedure in the exact same order. Let me know if you find any problems good luck __________________

May 16, 2003, 09:00 AM	#22
FoXDaV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	First I started in SaveMode. the I used your Mobility Mod Tool and after the first message it puts an error message "Laufzeitfehler 70: Zugriff verweigert" (I'm german). I used the other tool....it worked.... Then I started setup.exe and the error "DirectX 8 not installed" was on the screen. I have Direct X 9.0a I ignored this message and then the message "Error, no videocard driver found" was shown. I pusched [OK] and the installation aborted....

May 16, 2003, 09:06 AM	Thread Starter #23
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	Foxdav, Try updating the driver trough the device manager. select video card, properties, driver, update driver. specify the driver by browsing to the C2_xxx.inf or CX_xxx.inf __________________

May 16, 2003, 10:29 AM	#24
FoXDaV DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Then it will install "MOBILITY READON 8500" but I have the M9. The driverinstallation will copy ati2mtag.sys from "d:/driver/vga/r6xp/atidriver"... if I select C:/ati/..... it works but then other files are needed and these files are not on my system. (example: atipdsxx.dll,.....) It's crazy...

May 16, 2003, 10:35 AM	Thread Starter #25
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	That is indeed crazy. sound like the mobility modder didn't complete its thing. Maybe just maybe you should try to get Microsoft visual basic runtime dll.s which you can get here: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;235420 i think thats what causing the mobility modder not to work. if that doesn't work, send me an email to pvbeek@ncsbe.jnj.com today and i will send you the correct moddified files. __________________

May 17, 2003, 11:35 PM	#26
msix DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Barcelona Posts: 37 Rep Power: 0	Please Help! :) Runtime error 429 - ActiveX component can´t create object Thats the message i get from dhmodtool... ASny solution to install the new CAT on my COMPAQ laptop? Thanx in advance!!!

May 19, 2003, 04:31 PM	#27
q20 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	hey there patje thanks for putting the time and effort into creating such a tool. unfortunately it doesn't work for me on my acer tm800 (mobility 9000), xp pro. the tool appears to mod the file just fine, and the ati installer does its thing quite happily. unfortunately, when i reboot and get to my logon screen i am presented with a miriad of pretty serious $mft corruption messages and am unable to proceed. i reckon if i pressed 'ok' a hundrud thowsund times i'd stillnot reach my desktop, and have a beard. i've tried the other mod tool, but that's hopeless too. yours seems to be doing the right thing, but obviously it's not happy on my system. i've tried quiter a few times now, but no joy (tried from the device manager too). wtf? any ideas... oh, i'm using a systernals.com pagedefrag tool that runs before logon (like chkdsk). just thought of it now... maybe that's causing problem (shouldn't think so), but i'm so bored of this problem now that i'm not too interested in trying again... it's quite nerve racking getting the pc nack up and running... sometimes it takes a couple of minutes, sometimes half an hour (seemingly random usefulness of 'last good configuration' and 'system restore'. any help would be great. thanks chap

May 20, 2003, 07:31 AM	#28
noyz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Bro thanks for the modded driver u create, but i also need driver for Radeon mobility M6 for my windows 98, can anyone tell me where i can get it?

May 20, 2003, 10:14 AM	Thread Starter #29
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 66	to Q2O, you got yourself a strange problem my friend. Seems like the registry gets corrupted after installing the driver. How? i don't know what can we do about it? dunno either. here is what we will do: send me the install.ini, C2_someting.INF and the CX_something.INF to pvbeek@ncsbe.jnj.com i will check the files to see if they are modded correctly. the files can be found in the C:\ati\somewhere folder. to noyz: i'm sorry to say that i cannot support the win9x os. I reccomend (actually its your only choice) to visit the support site from your laptop manufacturor. __________________

May 22, 2003, 09:43 PM	#30
Smoothbrain DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	same problem (sort of) Hi, I have a dell laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000. I used the modder to install the new Omega drivers. The modder seemed to fix the necessary files, and it seemed that the drivers got installed. After re-boot, if I run dxdiag, it shows the driver as "vga.dll" and the control panel says that my card has a bad driver. I tried to manually install the driver from the device manager, but it didn't work. I have to confess I would rather stay with the old driver rather than re-install windows on my laptop, so if there's a work-around for this I would appreciate the help. jason