ATi 'RV250'
The RV250 is used for the Radeon 9000, which was launched along with the Radeon 9700. The 9000 followed the Radeon 7500 (RV200) in the mainstream market. It is a redesign of the R200 to reduce cost and power usage.
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A nearly identical card to this Radeon 9000 Pro AIW. The only difference is a 2 week production date difference on the RV250 chip. > Read more
The All-In Wonder series of the Radeon include a TV-decoder and TV-input functions. These cards are based around the Radeon 9000 Pro chip so that they offer some 3D-performance as well. Of course these aren't high-end since nVidia had it's GeForce 4 Ti-series already running and the ATi Radeon 9700 Pro was just around the corner.
Speaking of time-frames: my card was made in the 35th week of 2002. I can find reviews made in February 2003 and May 2003. I also find references of an introduction date of March 31, 2003. I wonder about the time-gap between my card and the reviews on-line. Did ATi use older PCB's or stock-pile these cards before release? Or were the cards really available in Q3 of 2002?
Despite the name 9000 Pro this card is not DirectX 9.0 compatible since it's really based on the technology of the Radeon 8500. > Read more
Launched in August of 2002 for the notebook market. This cool running Radeon Mobility M9 is better known as the ATi Mobility Radeon 9000.
This development card has two DVI ports, one DFP port (predecessor of DVI) and one TV-Out port. There are some switches on the PCB but I have no idea what they do. The LED's do not light up when the card is powered up and during the benchmarks the card ran just fine.
On the back is a sticker that says:
For this oddball I used Windows '98 SE with Omega 2.6.37 and Windows 2000 with Omega 2.6.42 as the regular ATi drivers lack the support for these Mobility Radeons. The Omega driver detects a Radeon Mobility 9000/9200 and ran all the benchmarks and games fine.NON QUALIFICATION SAMPLE
Made in Canada - NOT FOR RESELL Date:02/18/03
P/N:102-96503-00 Rev:12 ISR#4108-0013
Asic Type: M9-P Asic P/N: 216P9NZCGA12HS
Eng. Mod. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
In case you want to fiddle around with different drivers, or perhaps the original ATi driver, you can manually edit the .inf file after unpacking the driver. Every supported card is listed in this .inf file and is identified by a vendor ID (VEN_ID) and device ID (DEV_ID). ATi's vendor ID is 1002. The device ID is 4C66.
The rule you have to add is: "RADEON MOBILITY 9000/9200" = M9_ENU, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4C66
I can't guarantee this will work with every driver as the actual M9 driver should be in the driver package. > Read more