If you can't find any drivers to work/install, why would I want it?

Install XP again on it.

Fixed.

Glad i could help.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx

yrag....managed to get to that already earlier today...at least it indicated that the ccc was installed....but the driver still wasn't.

Ooops, thought it was a jest post.

Problem was/is that the Win 7 install didn't say "oh, I see you have a HD 3850 AGP.....let me dl a driver for you"...it simply said 'buggered if I know what you got....here....have a default vga driver and suck it up".

I was spoilt by/with its handling of my new machine's hardware.....but this card is supposedly the last/best AGP animal available....so you'd think if any older cards were to be supported then this would be the one.

There appear to be plenty of people having similar probs with the Saphire and Powercolor 3850s...in both Win 7 AND Vista.

Many of the 'solutions suggested' look like shots in the dark...with no real intelligent thought or logic....

I read on another forum.....for a Sapphire HD 3850.....seems the fella has the card and got his to work....by using the PCI-e drivers from ATI...

Ah....perserverance pays off....got it working....updated the 'default vga' manually by pointing to the hotfix folder....this time it took.

Win Exp score is now 4.2 ....and interestingly the Vid Card bit of it comes out at 7.0.....default res seems to be 1280x1024 on the old 19" LCD.

It's the CPU that's holding it all back....

There appears to be a Vista driver here, http://www.powercolor.com/Global/support_driver.asp?CategoryID=1&SeriesID=2&ModelID=468 , maybe that will work on Win 7.