Windows 10: Old Dell 9400/E1705 Workhorse ATI x1400 Driver for Windows 10

Is that possible that a Windows Update restored the old drivers? Make sure you have the proper drivers installed and then use the show/hide tool to hide any driver update so it won't install again.

 

I Have an Inspiron 6400 with a wxga screen 1680x1050 running windows 10 32 bit. I have the radeon x1400 graphics and have 'sucessfully ' installed the vista 32 bit drivers

I have the correct resolution, but on mouseover of various things on screen, they vanish - i.e. start menu, tiles in settings pane. Sometimes they come back sometimes not......

Any ideas please?

thanks! G

 

I guess these glitches are because of the different DirectX 9 implementation of the Vista drivers. I also have a similar glitch with the Marine Aquarium screensaver in any computer with NVidia Geforce FX 5200 (or similar) graphics card using the NVidia Forceware 96.85 driver (only one available for FX series). When the fishes move they leave a visible trail and eventually the screen becomes a mess. The same screensaver has no problem running in another computer using different drivers. Unless you can find different drivers (newer or older) there is no way to fix it. I hope it is not that bad.

 

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I'm afraid that the way it's behaving now means that it will be a deal breaker..... I could live with a little mis-behaving, but this degree of screen erasing is too much *Sad

Any other ideas please?

 

In worst case you could replace the ATI driver with Microsoft Basic Display Adapter (software only, no hardware acceleration). Your problems should disappear, but the performance will be slow due to no hardware acceleration at all. Otherwise go back to Windows 7.

 

ATi Radeon X1400M isn't supported by Windows 10.

 

Yes, as far as I remember the only WDDM driver is a Vista driver (WDDM 1.0) but it should work fine if installed in Vista compatibility mode or manually from the control panel. To avoid the graphic glitches you could try Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, but without any hardware acceleration your computer will be very slow... Your alternative is to format and install Windows 7 32-bit where the Vista driver might work better or you could also try the Windows XP driver (XPDM).