Vista 5308 & HIS Radeon 9250 256MB

ragingWS6 · Apr 28, 2006, 04:55 PM

At work, we were bringing up a test box to see how well Vista works in a Server 2003 forest. Well, to prep for it, we took a Dell Optiplex GX270 and upped the RAM to 2GB, bought a 2nd hard drive to install the OS to (so we can keep XP Pro on the machine still) and bought a 256MB video card (as described above). Well, Vista keeps saying this card has 0MB of video memory for some reason. I know that the 5308 drivers from ATi don't have the 9250 as one of their supported cards. I was thinking of trying to mod the .inf in the 5308 drivers to detect the 9250 and install to see if that will tell Vista the card has 256MB of memory, but I am not having much success. I was thinking of pulling one X800 XT PE from one of my machines at home and bringing it in to test, but I'd rather not.

Any suggestions?

Apr 28, 2006, 04:55 PM	#1
ragingWS6 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 25 Rep Power: 0	Vista 5308 & HIS Radeon 9250 256MB At work, we were bringing up a test box to see how well Vista works in a Server 2003 forest. Well, to prep for it, we took a Dell Optiplex GX270 and upped the RAM to 2GB, bought a 2nd hard drive to install the OS to (so we can keep XP Pro on the machine still) and bought a 256MB video card (as described above). Well, Vista keeps saying this card has 0MB of video memory for some reason. I know that the 5308 drivers from ATi don't have the 9250 as one of their supported cards. I was thinking of trying to mod the .inf in the 5308 drivers to detect the 9250 and install to see if that will tell Vista the card has 256MB of memory, but I am not having much success. I was thinking of pulling one X800 XT PE from one of my machines at home and bringing it in to test, but I'd rather not. Any suggestions? __________________ [COLOR=blue][COLOR=blue]Gaming System:[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]Vista x64 Business, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 watercooled @ 3.6GHZ, 6GB ADATA PC26400 RAM, EVGA 680i Chipset, 2x EVGA 8800GTX Superclocked in SLI, Sound Blaster X-FI Fata1ity XtremeGamer, 2 74GB WD Raptor 10000RPM in RAID 0, 500GB WD Caviar SATA, CoolerMaster 850W PSU.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]HTPC System:[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]Vista x86 Ultimate, AMD Athlon64 X2 5400+, 2 GB OCZ PC6400 RAM, HIS Radeon HD 3650 Pro 512MB, 120GB WD Caviar SE, Epox MF4 Ultra MB[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Extra LAN rig:[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]Vista x86 Ultimate, AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+, 2 GB Corsair XMS26400C4 RAM, Sapphire Radeon X1550 256MB, 160GB Hitachi SATA, Sapphire ATi Crossfire Xpress 200 MB, SB Audigy 2ZS Platinum.[/COLOR][COLOR=blue] [/COLOR][/COLOR]