Ati radeon xpress 200 series driver installing windows 8.1 pro black screen
dell optiplex 320 running Windows 8.1 standard.  The display is listed as ATI RADEON XPREES 200 in the device manager.  It is using the driver provided by the operating system - ATI Technologies dated 10/2/2010 and version 10-2_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc and ATI_ATI-Radeon-Xpress-X1100_A03_R172873.  From a cold boot the blue Windows logo appears and then the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, but the start screen with the tiles is not displayed.  Maybe this sounds weird, but I think the start screen and tiles is there, but just not being shown on the screen.  There appears to be nothing there, but I can move the cursor around on the black screen and click in frustration.  Then I press the power button and the laptop enters sleep mode.  Once in sleep mode I press power again to resume the computer and then the lock screen shows up and I can see the start screen and tiles and everything works like it should.  This only happens from a cold boot.  If the computer was on and restarted it does not happen.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Any suggestions?  I will check for a newer display driver from ATI.  The only driver on the Windows Update Catalog is for Windows Vista.
January 28th, 2014 3:38pm

mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, but the start screen with the tiles is not displayed.

Usually it is nVidia users who complain of this.  An explanation would be that you are seeing your secondary monitor display in an Extended display configuration.  When you press Win- etc. it would show on your primary monitor (which you can't see).  So, press Win-P anyway and imagine that you can see its display.  Then you would press CursorUp, Enter and switch display configurations so you could see something. 

only happens from a cold boot.

Then there is a feature in a boot that makes this change.  Try using Win-P again when you can see it to see what the configuration is then.

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January 28th, 2014 5:48pm

Hi,

Also, older driver could be the cause, you can contact the manufacturer for a more appropriate driver.

January 30th, 2014 3:32am

I was able to install the Xpress 200M video chip in Windows 8.1 by using the driver for HD8950

I found out by accident, but now have a resolution of 1280x800

very much better then 1024x768

took a lot of time, hope i can help others with this solution

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February 14th, 2014 12:35pm

How??

Please help me, becasue I can't install it.

Thank you! 

February 21st, 2014 10:34am

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/ATI/ATI-RADEON-XPRESS-200-Series-Graphics-Driver-838300-for-Vista-Windows-7.shtml#download

AFTER DOWNLOAD THIS DRIVER DEARCHIVATE IN A DIRECTORY AND INSTALL FROM .INF FILE.

WORKS ON WINDOWS 7 SP1 , AND WINDOWS 10 TM.

POSIBLE WILL WORK ON WINDOWS 8 AND 8.1

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October 29th, 2014 1:55am

Where is this driver found for download ?? I would like to try to use it.

Thanks - Steve M

November 4th, 2014 10:54am

I confirm this solution works, thank you Razvan! Instead of installing from the ini though I found the windows generic display driver in device manager and updated the driver manually (pointing to the extracted folder). 1280x800 confirmed.

I am running a Toshiba A135-S2266 Laptop with the Radeon Express 200M enbedded graphics card and a new install of Windows 8.1 Pro (32 bit). 

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