Help me find video card drivers!

[Braedley]

So I have a customer's computer here that I can't get drivers installed on. The card is a Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP, made by Sapphire, which unfortunately isn't supported directly by the ATI drivers. I've tried using the drivers supplied by Sapphire, but I get errors when windows restarts. Also, they're only described as hot fixes, which suggest to me that Catalyst needs to be installed before that is applied. The only problem with that is that I can't get Catalyst installed on the system because the card isn't officially recognized. Any help would be appreciated.

[Zac Naloen]

It's on the sapphire website

http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/support/drivers.php

[Braedley]

Zac, you'll notice in my first post that I've already tried those, and they weren't working properly.

[Joviwan]

I might reccomend this: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

The guy's been doing custom drivers for a while now, and people that use them generally seem to like them. It's probably compatible with your machine. If you don't want to do that, I'll try to look up the software kit later that lets you patch drivers to work no matter your hardware: I've got an x1700 in my laptop that NO ONE makes drivers for, but the normal catalyst sweet works just fine when I use the software to remove the "hardware check"

[Zac Naloen]

Sorry, completely misread the OP.



I don't know how legitimate these are but they at least claim to be the ATI drivers for this card, but if catalyst isn't detecting it then you could try extracting the install files manually and then manually selecting the driver to use.

http://www.downloadatoz.com/driver/item_274603.html

[Braedley]

Omega drivers seem to be working. It's not ideal, but I think the customer will be fine with them. Tested with a couple of his games that he brought in, and it wasn't giving any of the artifacts that he was complaining about earlier.

[Joviwan]

Huzzah!