Hard time installing old legacy amd driver

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Hello good afternoon friends, I’m having hard time installing on windows 10 1908 a IGP 2100 ATI driver, from a motherboard: GA-MA74GMT-s2 is a Gigabyte old motherboard paired with a Phenom II x2 B55, 8 gigs of ram, and the IGP integrated gpu from that mobo which is a 2100.

At this point, I went to motherboard website downloaded the VGA driver, run the setup, but it never detected or installed the Display AMD, as I understood that Windows 10 has a diffrent WDM and is not compatible with old WDM from windows 7/8.

Then I ran DDU-uninstaller, to get rid of amd drivers, then I went to google for guru3d site, where they had a especial legacy drivers (ATI Catalyst 12.11 B11 HotFix 11.09 V6 BETA) for a variety of 2100+ 1500 among other old drivers.
I run the setup, and this time it detected under the personalize installation the (AMD display drivers) It installed the display driver but appeared a Yellow mark with code 43, I ran dxdiag tool via windows 10 it shows on display (windows adapter with the error of not working properly) tested a game and 4-5 fps.

So at this point, I googled about this, and then I found this atikmdag-patcher which seemed to fix many problems for multiple users there, but for me didn’t still code 43…

And this person computer has no the resources to buy a new GPU, and he doesn’t want to go back to windows 7, as he needs a design program to work in this windows 10.

So I was wondering if I do I need special 2100 ATI IGP driver? as probably these drivers are only for the 2100 ATI physical gpu? and not for the IGP itself

hope to find a solution, and thanks for your time in reading this

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These are the first 2 links I got in Google searching for drivers for that particular chip:

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/integrated-motherboard-graphics/ati-radeon-2xxx-series/ati-radeon-2100

HTH!

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Thanks for your kind comment, yes I tried to install the 8 64 bit version of those drivers in AMD, but they didn’t installed the display driver, the display adapter reminds as microsoft adapter.

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Sometimes they won’t work because the certificates have expired. Try taking the computer offline and rolling back the date to 2013-2014, some time just after the driver was released. I had some problems on a retro XP build that worked out when the date was rolled back. Just guessing tho…

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download and install all appropriate drivers from here.
the chipset driver has amd vga driver for the igpu.

all the drivers top out at windows 7. so they should work out the box on windows 10 if you run the installer in win 7 compatability mode.
if they dont you have no option but to use win 7. as there are no win 10 specific drivers for that motherboard. and 2100 IGP does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12.

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Have you tried getting the drivers from AMD’s website? I see the have legacy W10 drivers for the 740G chipset and legacy W8 drivers for the 2100 IGP.

740G chipset drivers

2100 IGP drivers

Have you run Windows Update yet? Usually that takes care of drivers for older boards (make sure you have the “download optional updates” option enabled).

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Thanks for commenting guys, I realize this motherboard from my friend is GA-MA74GMT-s2 revision 2.0, whose southbridge is 700 and northbridge 740, I google it installed both drivers, but for some reason it doesn’t install the amd 2100 drivers.

But then after installing the south/north required drivers using their setup.exe , this time I decided to install manually through device manager the display drivers provided by guru3d site ((ATI Catalyst 12.11 B11 HotFix 11.09 V6 BETA)) this time the display device under device manager showed ATI 2100 it installed without error code 43.

but I restarted Windows and seemed to be fake the installation because for some reason the south/northbridge don’t detect the integrated gpu of the motherboard, as this cpu of my friend don’t have integrated video, the integrated video is a chip on the motherboard, so even if the display port says ATI 2100(correctly installed) windows still using microsoft adapter, and there is not gpu driver installed, I also tried to go to the manufacturer website download the vga drivers, set compatibility mode to windows 8 test, install, and select personalize installer, and it prompt a message that there is not like gpu or cannot detect the onboard vga, I also went to amd official site to download the 2100 drivers, and same situation with the setup don’t recognize the onboard gpu, it install multiples things but… I also grab every single folder of those that where extracted in the hard drive C, and pointed the route to the display device in device manager to see if this do anything, 0 luck so far.

At this point I don’t know if I need to change something in the bios?
This motherboard has this options:

bios
bios1013×630 97 KB

this is the manual GA-MA74GMT-S2 (rev. 1.0) Support | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global, my friend has the Init Display First (as PCI slot) but this offered also: PCIE, and PCI
I remember that I tell to him to set as onboard VGA instead of PCI ,but for that time we didn’t test the southbridge/northbridge drivers

But yeah sorry for to much text, and for my terrible English, I’m just desperate to help him, I feel frustrated when I cannot help or fix things for people.
I feel like useless lol :confused:

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Oh Vivante hello, you mean, That I should change the date of computer in that windows 10 pc, set the date to 2012-2013? and by offline you mean disable Internet?
and then re-run the drivers?

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Yeah, the certificate that is used to sign the driver is probably expired, so you need to trick your computer into thinking it’s back in time. You have to take it offline because it might sync time over the internet.

It worked for me on XP, but Windows 10 was released in 2015, so taking it back in time before it existed might introduce a whole new set of problems.

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he will have to select the correct output as well as setting peg mode to off.
basically select the graphics display mode to the correct output for his monitor cable.

internal graphics mode should be set to enable or auto

frame buffer size: should be 128mb to 1024mb if he can afford it ram wise.

init Display First: Specifies the first initiation of the monitor display from the installed PCI graphics card, PCI Express graphics card, or the onboard VGA.

PCI Slot Sets the PCI graphics card as the first display.(Default)
OnChipVGA Sets the onboard VGA as the first display. <---- enable this one.
PEG Sets the PCI Express graphics card as the first display.

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At this point I’m very confused, Do I need the VGa drivers from the motherboard website oficial are those VGA drivers from the (onboard chipset) or are those VGA drivers for (cpu built in gpu)?
or should I download and intall the southbridge drivers?

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Phenoms do not have built in iGPU, it comes in the North Bridge. There should be VGA driver inside these: https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-7-series-chipsets/740g

There is even Windows 10 version.

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I’m happy to find this thread since here are so many links to useful resources!

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Yes I download those drivers, pointed with the display device installer, when opening the inf, there is not 2100 drivers avalaible, just for different graphics.

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My friend also found the CD that come with the motherboard it says chipset windows 7/vista, but I pointed the drivers to the display and it doesnt have the ati 2100, but this cd also has a M7B folder with XP drivers and there is the 2100 ati.
I tried to set compatibility windows XP service pack 2, put the time 2009, installed, the drivers, it says ati 2100 working properly but again windows doesnt care and don’t install it properly… so frustrating