IE7 on Windows Vista Business Edition

Hi all,

I have bin experiencing some problems with IE7 on Win Vista Business Edition.

I seems like web pages that contain flash animations are not displayed properly. Here are the images of the MS Home page:

http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_window.gif
http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_window_w.gif

Interestingly enough this is how the same page looks when the same window is restored:

http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_window.gif
http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_window_w.gif

Two more examples:

http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_maximized_dell_home_page.gif
http://unclezen.com/Documents/ie_restored_dell_home_page.gif

As well, any other action like moving the mouse over an link will cause the window to flicker.

Video Adapter: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300.

Any ideas

Thanks!

Zen



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IE7 on Windows Vista Business Edition

  • renealejandrov

    having the same problem here

    vista business and ati mobility radeon x300.

    on a clean install everything works fine, but whenever windows updates the ati drivers the flickering starts.
    i've then tried the ati vista beta drivers, they did the same.
    yesterday i installed the final 1.7 catalyst drivers, and the flickering stays :(

    hopefully there is somebody who has an answer to this and a solution.

    grtz,
    Kiekeboe100


  • calmal20

    good news everyone

    ati finally found what they were doing wrong with their drivers, and the new catalyst release (catalyst 7.2) works perfect !!!!

    grtz,
    Kiekeboe100


  • 愛青蛙

    I am having the same problem now with the upgrade version of Vista Home Premium (clean install), as I did with the Beta RC2 version of Vista Ultimate....screen flickering within IE7! I too have a ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 and immediately after the install, everything was great until auto updates take place and then then the "flickering" begins, especially prevelant with flash ads on the screen in IE7.

    Help! This is driving me crazy!


  • TedSA

    I had the same problem with the x300 running Windows Vista Home Premium and IE7. I tried doing the rollback on the driver and it fixed the problem. Thanks for the advice.

    +Landon


  • MaciekWojcik

    Yes, the new catalyst release (catalyst 7.2) seems to be the answer to this problem. After I installed Catalyst 7.2 (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html) flickering went away.

    Thanks!

    Zen


  • sowjanya

    Looks like my flicker problem has been resolved! I'll post back later if somehow the problem returns (I spoke too soon once, but this time I think this is substantial.)

    Many many thanks for keeping an eye out on behalf of the community on this one!

    Brian


  • Thomas Werner

    Here goes:

    http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html

    Can't wait to give it a try later on....

    Thanks to everybody!

    Zen


  • lee_70

    Go to device manager and find the graphics drivers and Roll back the drivers,

    Thats the exact problem i had

    Let me know how it go's

    As i said im 110% positive thats what it is


  • paso

    Could you provide a link to this

    Thanks!


  • Jon Braganza

    I'm having the same problem: Vista+IE7+Radeon 300 = Massive Flicker. I'll try the rollback to see if that works.
  • skuehner

    My problem is the opposite, Vista business, ATI mobility X1600. IE7 works great... Firefox2 flickers...

    /Fredrik

  • i3tech

    I am having the same problem with the same video card...Firefox 2 appears to work fine. I still have not gotten IE7 to stop flickering.
  • sachinsanjayfederer

    getting the same thing here, seems to be with me and sites using flash really go bonkers, starting to drive me nuts. Firefox it is for now...
  • Chrisull

    Ok, I had this problem aswell, The exact problem that you guys are having, The flickering was unbearable, Installed netscape and all was fine.

    I reinstalled windows vista for other reasons, When i reinstalled i was offered a load of updates 1 of which was the ati driivers WDDM, so i decided not to install this and checked download.com to see if the flickering had stopped and it had.

    So blame the WDDM drivers 110%.

    Just an hour or so ago i was curious to see what happened when i installed the Ati catalyst software from the Ati website, And guess what THE FLICKERING WAS BACK, God damn it! I just done a system restore and all was ok

    My card is an ATI Radeon X300 Hyper Memory

    ---------

    What i would do if your not wanting to reinstall again is go into Device manager and uninstall the WDDM drivers and see if that help.

    Hope this helps guys

    Graham


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