barmish
January 25th, 2009, 06:01 PM
Hi Guys- I experienced the commonly posted issue of boxee crashing at launch. I was able to resolve the issue and will outline my fix so hopefully it can help some of you out there.
This should fix the issue on Windows 7 beta with ATI Mobility Radeon graphic cards.
Download MSXML 6.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D21C292C-368B-4CE1-9DAB-3E9827B70604&displaylang=en)from Microsoft.
Make sure UAC control is turned off. If you don't know how to do this then read this guide (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/how-to-disable-and-turn-off-uac-in-windows-7/). If you don't want it disabled permanently, you can turn it back on after our mobility tool has finished, but it won't mod the drivers correctly with UAC ON.
Download the newest desktop drivers from www.ati.com (or get them from Driver Heaven Downloads (http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/)).
Run the downloaded driver, let it extract into c:/ATI/SUPPORT - but cancel the installation once the driver is extracted.
Run Mobility Modder - browse to the driver in C:ATI/SUPPORT/ - an example of Catalyst 7.4 would be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 - hit modify. Wait until driver is modified.
Go to C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 (Or whatever the driver installation folder was called), and run the SETUP.EXE. Please note you might see a "Driver is not WHQL certified", ignore this, as it is a side effect of the modification.
Wait until Install is finished and reboot. Enjoy the new drivers & Boxee....
note: these instructions were adapted from: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
Please let me know if this helped you! :):)
This should fix the issue on Windows 7 beta with ATI Mobility Radeon graphic cards.
Download MSXML 6.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D21C292C-368B-4CE1-9DAB-3E9827B70604&displaylang=en)from Microsoft.
Make sure UAC control is turned off. If you don't know how to do this then read this guide (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/how-to-disable-and-turn-off-uac-in-windows-7/). If you don't want it disabled permanently, you can turn it back on after our mobility tool has finished, but it won't mod the drivers correctly with UAC ON.
Download the newest desktop drivers from www.ati.com (or get them from Driver Heaven Downloads (http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/)).
Run the downloaded driver, let it extract into c:/ATI/SUPPORT - but cancel the installation once the driver is extracted.
Run Mobility Modder - browse to the driver in C:ATI/SUPPORT/ - an example of Catalyst 7.4 would be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 - hit modify. Wait until driver is modified.
Go to C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 (Or whatever the driver installation folder was called), and run the SETUP.EXE. Please note you might see a "Driver is not WHQL certified", ignore this, as it is a side effect of the modification.
Wait until Install is finished and reboot. Enjoy the new drivers & Boxee....
note: these instructions were adapted from: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php
Please let me know if this helped you! :):)