ATI 2013 Boot Disc Does Not Boot on Gateway NV44 Laptop

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I downloaded the ATI 2013 bootable disc iso and burned it to a CD. It boots fine on my Dell XPS L502x laptop.

The problem is that it does not boot on my newly acquired, but old, Gateway NV44 laptop. It is not recognized at all. The Gateway does recognize a windows repair disc as bootable. The Gateway runs Windows 7 Home Premium.

I vaguely recall a similar issue with an older version of ATI that was still under support warranty. I believe they emailed me a link to a special iso. Unforunately, I discovered the current problem after free support expired.

I do have ATI 2013 Plus Pack. Would creating a WinPE disc solve my problem? I have been reluctant to try this because I am not sure I could follow all the steps. I did try to boot from old BartPE disc I had, and that did not work on the Gateway either.

I hope someone has some solutions I might try.

Tue, 12/24/2013 - 16:14
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I managed to get the laptop to boot from the ATI bootable disc, but I don't really understand why it worked. I went into the bios and changed the setting for the SATA hdd from AHCI to IDE. Once I did that the laptop booted from the discs I burned for ATI 2013 and ATI 2011. One very odd thing - for ATI 2011 I had a retail bootable disc. The laptop was always able to boot from that disc, even in AHCI mode. However, it would not boot from a copy of that disc or from the downloaded iso until I changed the mode to IDE.

Another odd thing, after I changed the SATA setting from AHCI to IDE and tried to start the laptop normally, it wouldn't start until it went into repair mode. It didn't find any problems, however, and started after several minutes of error checking.

I hope this information helps someone else whose computer won't boot from the ATI bootable discs.

Wed, 12/25/2013 - 05:37