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ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
well, they released it. and i downloaded it.
took me a few hours before i made the decision to install them on my W3J because of the looping reboot issue present in the 6.11 drivers.
well, i tried it and no looping reboot issues. looks like they fixed it.
get it while it's hot!
http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
Many would suggest revert back to Catalyst 6.8 drivers, which I believe others mentioned it is their most stable driver for most W3J users, so have a look at that too.
Also compare 3DMark05/06 with the new drivers, plus can you give temperature differences using the new drivers compared to your previous drivers.
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
havent done any benchmarking on this notebook before, but i'll give it a shot. speedfan's giving me temps for cpu and hd, but im getting 2 other readings: remote temp and temp 1. im assuming the remote temp is the chipset temp and temp 1 is the vid card temp. or is it the other way around?
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
I am having a problem with my one week old W3J. I installed 6.12 drivers and with the battery power only it was looping reboots. I uninstalled, tried 6.11, same problem. 6.10, 6.9, etc. Same problem.
I'm on the verge or returning this laptop at this point. Is there any fix or even any word from ASUS about this issue? What version are the stock drivers on the utilities disk? Catalyst Control Center lists the 2d Driver version as 6.14.10.0362. Same for Direct3D and OpenGL versions. Does this mean I have 6.14 drivers installed stock? Is that even possible? I thought 6.12 were the latest? Is my problem because I'm driving to revert to older drivers?
Please help.
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well... i think i know why the looping reboots are occurring. i didnt get any looping reboots when i installed the 6.12 drivers. what i did was i installed the driver while my notebook was plugged to the outlet. i remember with the 6.11 drivers, i installed it while running on battery. i think that's how i got the looping reboot problem. but now, im not getting any looping reboots while running on battery.
so im sorta coming to the conclusion that you shouldnt get any problems if u install the drivers when it's running on AC mode
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disable powerplay.. problem solved.
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What/where is Powerplay? How do I disable it?
This is on a fresh installation of Windows XP. I scrapped the ASUS installation and didn't use the recovery discs to install XP. I installed from my own personal copy.
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
I am having a problem with my one week old W3J. I installed 6.12 drivers and with the battery power only it was looping reboots. I uninstalled, tried 6.11, same problem. 6.10, 6.9, etc. Same problem.
I'm on the verge or returning this laptop at this point. Is there any fix or even any word from ASUS about this issue? What version are the stock drivers on the utilities disk? Catalyst Control Center lists the 2d Driver version as 6.14.10.0362. Same for Direct3D and OpenGL versions. Does this mean I have 6.14 drivers installed stock? Is that even possible? I thought 6.12 were the latest? Is my problem because I'm driving to revert to older drivers?
Please help.
You need to make sure you get those other drivers completely uninstalled. Sometimes Catalysts don't like to completely revert back to older files or the newer files you have uninstalled will still linger. Run Driver Cleaner Pro, give this page a read: http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_4.html
I used Driver Cleaner Pro after installing 6.11 and it worked but I had to go through a bunch of uinstalling/reinstalling before I got it to work.
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
I personally still suggest using Mobility Catalyst 6.8 Drivers.
They are most stable in my opinion and provide the best performance.
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Re: ATI Mobility Catalyst 6.12
Also compare 3DMark05/06 with the new drivers, plus can you give temperature differences using the new drivers compared to your previous drivers.
im not sure what the desired benchmark settings are, but ran 3dmark06 on default, and im getting pretty a pretty dismal score of 2200 points. it might be cuz im running quite a few processes on the background.