ATi Drivers for Win 7 Beta Pulled
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Always trying to think positively, I was again fooling around on the Windows 7 beta machine. I installed a few things (all from Microsoft, ‘cause if you can’t trust their products… right). I kept having problems with the menu (no, not the content, the actual displaying of it) and so I tried to go online to again try the Windows 7 beta drivers.
After looking on the ATi website and finding nothing (these people are as good as Microsoft at indexing what is on the site!), it was off to Google, where several links were available, with all of them showing that access was being denied.
Sorry, you have insufficient access.
403 Access Denied.
If you typed the URL yourself, please make sure that the spelling is correct.
If you clicked on a link to get here, there may be a problem with the link or the page may no longer exist.
Such friendly guys, these people at ATi. But then, why should they be any different than before they were purchased by AMD.
A few more links all were pointing to this same page, so there is absolutely no help.
What is truly amazing is that the people at ATi should be very amenable to offering beta drivers, because based upon the way they work, every one of their offerings is a beta driver!
As the song says, maybe tomorrow.
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Brett
January 17th, 2009
at 6:18pm
There are still Beta drivers available on ATI’s website. That was just a dead page and goof on them.
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=39069
enjoy
Rollingeyes
January 18th, 2009
at 11:18pm
God you’re an idiot.
the oracle
January 19th, 2009
at 8:38am
Rollingeyes, that adds so much to the conversation.
the oracle
January 25th, 2009
at 5:15am
Looks like another bug in the system - that is the 2nd time my answer to a comment has been posted before the original.
the oracle
January 25th, 2009
at 6:16am
Dan, thanks for the note,
but, if the drivers are available to the public, from the ATi site, it shows that the developer is working on the driver problems, it shows continuity(since at all other times one looks for new drivers at the manufacturer site, not Microsoft), and allowing Microsoft to be the arbiter of what is released is slowing the adoption of otherwise useful improvements.
It has been shown repeatedly that Microsoft is no better at quashing bugs than any other manufacturer, so there really is no reason for it (as a matter of fact, I have had more problems on the other side [nVidia] with signed MS drivers than the ones I got directly from the nVidia site)
Dan Dar3
January 25th, 2009
at 7:28am
Just happens that all device manufacturers are encouraged to deliver their updates through Windows Update, both the OS and drivers are in beta stage so the whole driver certification process is sped up…
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ATI Technologies Inc. driver update for ATI RADEON 9600 Series (Prerelease - WDDM 1.0)
Installation date: 25/01/2009 14:23
Installation status: Successful
Update type: Optional
This driver was provided by ATI Technologies Inc. for support of ATI RADEON 9600 Series (Prerelease - WDDM 1.0)
More information:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=3519
Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub
the oracle
January 25th, 2009
at 11:24am
Wow, 1 minute apart and the later one differs by over an hour - in negative time!
Let’s see if the trend continues.
Sebastien Lang
March 15th, 2009
at 6:08am
I couldn’t download the driver with Firefox, but it worked with explorer….
…Read the fine prints…
the oracle
March 15th, 2009
at 6:29am
Sebastien, thanks fior the comment, but did you notice when I was trying to download them. It was a while ago - back then it simply wasn’t happening, no matter the browser used.
Cyphoor
March 16th, 2009
at 2:03am
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/radeonaiw-win7beta.aspx
They are beta as but they work you just cant get ccc to work well i cant it’s frustrating but you get over it
and it’s for everything if you have an ati board like a 740g it is for the lot
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