Need help finding a driver ... and FAT32 (1 Viewer)

[Lord Ac]

Can someone please find me the most recent driver for a "Readon 9200SE Series" graphics card for XP ... Ive looked at their website (http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html) but cant find it. Also, I went to http://www.video-drivers.com/companies/127.htm and downloaded what I thought was right, but when i installed it none of my games worked and/or it ekpt restarting my computer and doin some scan about FAT32 ....

Also:

What is FAT32? I have 2 hardrives on my comp and the one with XP installed is NF..etc and the other (with games installed) is FAT32 ... and from above --> this scan kept coming up everytime checking compatibilty of FAT32 (but it always finished 'ok')?????



Ac

 

[equiski]

In the page you linked to, choose:

Windows XP ---> Graphic Driver ---> Radeon Family

Click go.

Now choose what bundle you want. I imagine you could just download the device driver, but the newest control panel would be nice too i imagine (I wouldn't know, I have a Nvidia). Just avoid downloading the ones which only support the higher end cards (Radeon 9500+)

 

[sunny]

Can someone please find me the most recent driver for a "Readon 9200SE Series" graphics card for XP ... Ive looked at their website (http://www. ati.com/support/driver.html) but cant find it.

Its on that page! Select your operating system, then select Graphics Driver, and select "Radeon Family". Now days they tend to release one package that contains the driver for every series/family of card they have instead of releasing one package for every single card, which makes it confusing what to download.

What is FAT32?

FAT32 is a way of writing/accessing the hard disk. NTFS is another (better) way.

 

[loquasagacious]

There is a way within windows and without data loss to change the format to NTFS from FAT32, can anyone remeber how?

 

[Frigid]

There is a way within windows and without data loss to change the format to NTFS from FAT32, can anyone remeber how?

yes, but it's very annoying way...

first divide the drive into two partitions with a partitioning program like Partition Magic. when you create the second partition, make sure you specify to the program you want NTFS. then shove all data to the new NTFS partition. then format the first partition with the partitioning program to NTFS. now rejoin the two partitions.

happy partitioning

 

[sunny]

yes, but it's very annoying way...

first divide the drive into two partitions with a partitioning program like Partition Magic. when you create the second partition, make sure you specify to the program you want NTFS. then shove all data to the new NTFS partition. then format the first partition with the partitioning program to NTFS. now rejoin the two partitions.

happy partitioning

eh?

If you have Partition Magic, you might as well get Partition Magic to convert it for you rather than create partitions to hold the data. Partition Magic just executes Window's builtin convert program to convert the partition (without losing any data).

For your reading pleasure:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx

 

[withoutaface]

I have the same card and I just download ATi Catalyst software.

 

[Lord Ac]

"""" 1 package - English only
Supported on the RADEON 9500, RADEON 9600, RADEON 9700, RADEON 9800, RADEON X300, RADEON X600, RADEON X700 or RADEON X800 Series of products.
Note you must have Microsoft’s .NET Version 1.1 Framework installed. """"

They arent the same as Readon 9200 SE are they? Like, that "SE" means something?!?!

Ac

 

[sunny]

Yes the 9200 is supported, it probably just isn't listed because its a bit older
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_411_Release_Notes.html

Look under "Desktop product family support", the 9200 family (which includes the 9200 SE) is there.

 

[Lord Ac]

tHANKS

aC

 

[Frigid]

Partition Magic just executes Window's builtin convert program to convert the partition (without losing any data).

oh. oops.

 

[redslert]

my advice will be to convert to NTFS because it does run better and supports indexing...well i use the features don't know if you will..

hmmm, but i will advice against converting to NTFS without a full format, i have heard of a couple of compliants when winXP was first released...but haven't really recently, only because most people use NTFS as default

so if you can, try formating instead of just converting
not that they change will be major

but seeing as though you had a post about computer performance, i think your FAT32 is the problem!
if it's just games in that drive, then format it

 

[Lord Ac]

Cool. My very thinking ...

Ac