Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: ATI Control Catalyst Windows 7 issue

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 04-13-2012, 07:21 PM:

I am installing a 25" HP led monitor on a desktop setup, and there's black borders around the image; it doesn't fill the screen. I tried downloading and installing the ATI Control Catalyst Center program to allow me to change the overscan settings, but the computer crashes everytime I install it. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate and all software/drivers are up to date, but I can't figure out how to get around the crashing. Any one else have this problem?

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-14-2012, 12:07 PM:

Have you had that combination of graphics card and monitor running under another operating system without the problem? If not, it might be worth trying booting into an Ubuntu Live CD as an experiment - it won't cost you anything.

If yes, then as a wild guess, I'd speculate that there is no fully compatible W7 driver available for your graphics card; if no, that the card itself cannot support the resolution of that monitor.

Changing the overscan settings isn't going to help if the monitor thinks it's getting fewer pixels delivered from the graphics card than is needed to fill its screen. There may be a setting in the monitor's menu (not the graphics card settings) that lets you blow up the smaller frame to fill the screen.

The only other thing I can think of is that if the connection is DVI, try using analogue, and vice-versa.

But I fear that the most likely solution is a new graphics card - sorry.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 04-14-2012, 11:23 PM:

This might be a useless suggestion, but since ATI was bought out by AMD and card lines/software are now all branded as AMD, you might want to download the newest version from AMD's website and uninstall the ATI version.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 04-15-2012, 10:08 AM:

Here's my suggestion:

Uninstall Windows 7.

Install Ubuntu 11.10.

[Smile]

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 04-15-2012, 01:25 PM:

The graphics card is a Radeon 6850. I found a "fix" here:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICCCInstallFreezes.aspx

I'll be trying this later tonight and then installing CCC again to see if that solves the problem!

Posted by Sean Weitzel (Member # 244) on 04-18-2012, 03:25 PM:

ATI Drivers do not seem to play nice at all in windows 7. I have a machine here that won't properly load the driver unless i turn off driver signature enforcement via F8 before bootup.