I've just bought an ASUS EAH5450 Graphics Card (ATI Radeon HD5450, 1 GB DDR3) for my main system, but I haven't been able to make it work under Windows 2003 (my OS in that system).
When I plugged the card, I got a couple of "installing drivers" prompt for things such as "ATI High Definition Audio Device" that got themselves sorted out of the Internet, and then a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter".
The CD that came with the card installs something called "ATI Catalyst Install Manager" and .net 2.0, but no drivers. I've downloaded the latest (WinXP 32bits) drivers from ATI, and the experience is the same: I don't get any drivers installed.
My Motherboard is an ASUS A8N-SLI with nVidia nForce 4 chipset (for an Athlon 64X2, somewhat old), but my previous card was an ATi Radeon X700, so it's been working with ATI cards before.
On POST, during boot I see a "Display Card" Device (Vendor ID 1002-68F9-0300) and a "Multimedia Device" (1002-AA68-0403), and when viewing the properties of the "Standard VGA", they match the device ID.
Any hints? I'd really hate having to get rid of the card, and I'm sure it's not that strange what I'm trying to do…
Best Answer
Windows server 2003 is not on the list of operating systems in the release notes for the ATI driver of this card.
I would therefore first try Windows Update, to see if it can suggest an optional driver update for the video card.
Second, download the latest driver from ATI for XP, which dates more or less from the same period. There's a new driver which dates from a couple of weeks ago.
If this doesn't work, you may have to make a choice between your operating system and your graphic card.
My comment is that the Server family of Windows is not targeted at high-level graphical usage. In fact, it comes without even Windows Media Player, which does take some effort to install by brute force.