Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Since I had a little time on my hands (that was sarcasm) I installed an old ATI Radeon X300 PCIe video card into an Windows 10 system.   The ATI X300 was from MSI and it has DVI, svideo and VGA output.  The mainboard was an Intel DG33BU, onboard graphics was working fine just didn't support the resolution I needed (1366 x 768) for the monitor (Westinghouse LCD TV 27").  

First off, I know both the card and the monitor are old, but if they aren't broke then we don't need to replace 'em....  That being said, I didn't want to use a new Nvidia PCIe card and I have a few of these X300's collecting dust.  Installed the card, of course Windows 10 didn't have a driver and the generic driver didn't show the correct resolution (which I knew before installing the card).  Did a quick Google search for a driver and found lots of choices must of which didn't install properly or were for other newer models of video card.  AMD's site didn't have anything that old that I could find anyway. Turns out ATI Catalyst 8.11 contains a driver for the X300 and works with Windows 10 (it is a Vista 64 app).  Other newer versions of Catalyst might work as well, but 8.11 was the first one that worked for me so I'll just keep it for now.   Later on, might try some other Catalyst versions.   Multiple versions of Catalyst can be downloaded from descargas.hispazone.org/Programas/Catalyst.

Normally, I would not have installed the full Catalyst software and only installed the driver but the monitor has the picture moved over to the right too far.  I used the Catalyst software to move the picture back to the left.

Bottom line, it works fine seems fast enough for desktop work and YouTube videos, happy camper.

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