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05-September-05, 11:35 AM
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| Apex Tech Fanatic  Join Date: Apr 2004
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 |  installing ATI drivers I have an Asus9600XT vga card, adn its always a major pain int hebutt to get the latst drivers to load. I rebuilt my HTPC and grabbed the latest drivers from ATI. I have even run the Driver Cleaner tool. What am i doing wrong???
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05-September-05, 01:51 PM
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| PCApex Reviewer From Hell  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sunnydale
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 | Hard to say. Did you uninstall the Drivers using the uninstall feature located in Control Panel/Add & Remove Programs? If not do so. Then Run DriveCleaner. Have you ever had a "non" ATi card in your system? If so then check for a uninstall program in Control Panel/Add & remove Programs and run it.Then run Drivecleaner for that type of card also. Restart the system and Boot into safemode and hit the Win + pause key's. This should bring up System Properties. Hit the Hardware tab and then pick Device Manager. Click on Display adapters. If you've uninstalled them it should be empty. If not then you need right click on the adapter listed and pick uninstall. Restart your system normally. It should find new hardware. Cancel any box that pop's up. Should be 2 of these popups. Disable any virus program running and turn off everything you can (Sound Manager, Mouseware, ATiTool or any other program that start's up at Boot. Run the latest driver program now. You have to be a System Administrator to do this. If it still won't install then I would suspect that something is wrong with your card. Also, depending on your mobo, if it has intergrated video you may need to disable it in the Bios or thru a jumper on the mobo. Most newer modern mobo's will disable the intergrated video if a AGP card is plugged in but not all of them. |
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05-September-05, 02:56 PM
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| a.k.a., Frank Bullitt  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Have Gun ....Will Travel.....
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  | When you uninstall the old drivers, also right-click on "My Computer" and go into properties, then to "Hardware", "Device Manager" and then to "Video Adapters".......uninstall those too..... Prior to reboot, go to "RUN", then type "msconfig"..........click the "startup" tab and click the "Disable All" button......... Reboot..........and install your drivers and reboot again.
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05-September-05, 06:26 PM
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I uninstalled using Add/Remove Programs then Driver and Cab Cleaner. Only ever used this one card in the system. No AntiVirus yet. The mobo is an Asus P4P800 E-Deluxe The only account is the System Admin.
Ran Windows update, (using XPpro sp2) so unless its already there i didnt.
Will try that. It shouldnt be this difficult to load new drivers should it???
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10-September-05, 10:50 AM
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| turns out that i had to manually delete any remnants of ATI drivers from the registry! Dont know why ATI drivers arent a straight forward driver install!
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10-September-05, 11:47 AM
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