Change from Nvidia to ATI

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Thinking of upgrading from an Nvidia TI4400 to an ATI 9800 XT. Will I
encounter lots of problems doing this change ? i.e Will I have to completely
remove all traces of the Nvidia Detonators from my system ? Anyone know the
best way to do this or will I be ok just installing the new card without
having to remove Dets ? And as I'm new to ATI would you recommend using the
drivers on the included CD for the XT or downloading something else ? If so
what ?
Thanx in advance
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The only sure way of doing this would be to reinstall your OS IMHO. You will
most certainly have to uninstall ALL of Nvidias stuff and its not easy. Do a
google search for "regcleaner" (http://tinyurl.com/3xegv). This free program
will find all the 'dead' registry entries and I've found it to be a great
program to have anyway. It should do the job just as well as the video card
specific 'cleaners'.

You really should just format the drive and reinstall the o/s though. Its a pain
but well worth it if you haven't done it in 6 months or so anyway.

You are in for a treat when you fire up the new ATI board.. I'm a convert too,
and I was amazed at how much better ATI is.


Pluvious
 
It's always better to to a reformat when changing from nVidia to ATI,
although you can usually get by with using a driver cleaner program. The
reason for this is, quite simply, that ATI still can't manage to
automatically uninstall their OWN drivers in a driver update, much less
someone else's.
 
I switched from Nvidia to ATI without any hassle whatsoever. Go to the
Control Panel and uninstall the Nvidia drivers in Add/Remove Programs, and
then don't reboot yet...go to the device manager and uninstall your Nvidia
video card in Device Manager. Then shut your machine down, take out the
Nvidia card and pop in your ATI card. Boot your machine up and XP will
detect your new video card and ask for the driver CD. Cancel out of the
driver installation process at this point. Just continue to boot up and XP
will use a standard Super VGA driver. Then go to the latest ATI driver you
downloaded from ATI, click the executable and let it go through the
installation process. Reboot, let it do it's self test, and bingo, you are
ready to go. Make whatever adjustments to the video that you want to make
re resolution etc. You may have to reinstall the inf file for your monitor
so that your video driver can know what refresh rate settings etc. are
possible.

JK
 
It's always better to to a reformat when changing from nVidia to ATI,
although you can usually get by with using a driver cleaner program. The
reason for this is, quite simply, that ATI still can't manage to
automatically uninstall their OWN drivers in a driver update, much less
someone else's.
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Reformat the HDD just for a video card swap? What you smokin?, I want
some! ;-) Ed
 
It's always better to to a reformat when changing from nVidia to ATI,
although you can usually get by with using a driver cleaner program. The
reason for this is, quite simply, that ATI still can't manage to
automatically uninstall their OWN drivers in a driver update, much less
someone else's.
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I had ZERO problems going from Nvidia 52.18 > ATI 3.9 drivers.... on
Windows98se.
 
some people just gotta format. GOTTA FORMAT !!!

don't ask him about what he does when he changes screensavers.

backgrounds ? don't go there.


:
: >It's always better to to a reformat when changing from nVidia to ATI,
: >although you can usually get by with using a driver cleaner program. The
: >reason for this is, quite simply, that ATI still can't manage to
: >automatically uninstall their OWN drivers in a driver update, much less
: >someone else's.
: >
:
: Reformat the HDD just for a video card swap? What you smokin?, I want
: some! ;-) Ed
:




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PB said:
It's always better to to a reformat when changing from nVidia to ATI,
although you can usually get by with using a driver cleaner program. The
reason for this is, quite simply, that ATI still can't manage to
automatically uninstall their OWN drivers in a driver update, much less
someone else's.
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Because you don't NEED to uninstall them! ffs..
 
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