Help With Video Card

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I'm having a strange problem that I need some advice on. I have had
the same setup now for about 8 months. Meaning everything was working
great but things were getting cluttered. So I decided to do a reformat
and a reinstall of XP Pro.

Everything went well, until I tried to install my video card driver.
It's a Diamond x1650. When the install starts the PC freezes up at the
ATI screen. I have tried going into safe mode and it tells me that the
drivers on the CD are not compatible. But this is the manufacturers
CD.

The thing that bugs e is that nothing is different. It all worked
fine before, no changes at all. Is there something else I can try?
 
TheGatekeeper said:
I'm having a strange problem that I need some advice on. I have had
the same setup now for about 8 months. Meaning everything was working
great but things were getting cluttered. So I decided to do a reformat
and a reinstall of XP Pro.

Everything went well, until I tried to install my video card driver.
It's a Diamond x1650. When the install starts the PC freezes up at the
ATI screen. I have tried going into safe mode and it tells me that the
drivers on the CD are not compatible. But this is the manufacturers
CD.

The thing that bugs e is that nothing is different. It all worked
fine before, no changes at all. Is there something else I can try?
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In many cases, you need to install chipset drivers for the motherboard,
before you can even attempt to install drivers for a video card. I have no
idea what your mainboard is, but I'm betting that XP needs at least 1 driver
for it (probably VGA something or other) before you can install the driver
for your video card. -Dave
 
TheGatekeeper said:
I'm having a strange problem that I need some advice on. I have had
the same setup now for about 8 months. Meaning everything was working
great but things were getting cluttered. So I decided to do a reformat
and a reinstall of XP Pro.

Everything went well, until I tried to install my video card driver.
It's a Diamond x1650. When the install starts the PC freezes up at the
ATI screen. I have tried going into safe mode and it tells me that the
drivers on the CD are not compatible. But this is the manufacturers
CD.

The thing that bugs e is that nothing is different. It all worked
fine before, no changes at all. Is there something else I can try?
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like dave said chipset first, but did you install .net 2.0? ati for some
idiotic reason requires it to be inplace for their drivers to work.

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sbb78247

resident redneck alt.os.windows-xp

you aint frum 'round here are ya boy!
 
like dave said chipset first, but did you install .net 2.0? ati for some
idiotic reason requires it to be inplace for their drivers to work.
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I knew there was a reason I haven't purchased an ATI card recently.
:) -Dave
 
Dave said:
I knew there was a reason I haven't purchased an ATI card recently.
:) -Dave
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yea, it went all wobly with that stuff when they went to control center -
control panel was nice and didn't need all that crap. some progress, eh?

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sbb78247

resident redneck alt.os.windows-xp

you aint frum 'round here are ya boy!
 
yea, it went all wobly with that stuff when they went to control center -
control panel was nice and didn't need all that crap. some progress, eh?
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Yup! I had some sort of problems with ATI control centre - removed it (used
just the drivers) and then had to hack a lot of reg. entries for ATI
Catalyst.

There're Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools as a substitute.
 
PeterC said:
Yup! I had some sort of problems with ATI control centre - removed it
(used just the drivers) and then had to hack a lot of reg. entries
for ATI Catalyst.

There're Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools as a substitute.
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i stopped keeping up with the omega drivers, but does he use that horrid
control center also?


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sbb78247

resident redneck alt.os.windows-xp

you aint frum 'round here are ya boy!
 
This wouldn't be such a headache if I didn't have everything working
before the reformat. I am using all the same hardware and even the
same Windows CD, so everything is identical. I double checked and
even reformatted and reinstalled XP again today with the same result.
The chipset drivers are installed and Windows is up to date. I tried
for the heck of it to install my sound card an low and behold, when I
try to install drivers for that, the same thing happens.

The PC just completely locks up as it begins to install drivers.
For the graphics card it's when the ATI screen pops up, for the sound
card it's when the Creative screen pops up. I have updated my BIOS
with the newest version and also my drivers, all with the same result.
I am stumped right now on what to do. Any help is appreciated.
 
This is just another one of those times when a copy of the Windows
partition is priceless. Immediately after the installation, before
you do anything else, you install the disk manager and make a copy.
Before you get ready to do anything difficult, you make another
copy. It's the only way to fly. Most of the guys (and gals) like
Acronis True Image or something like that. I use Partition Manager.

Good luck.
 
This wouldn't be such a headache if I didn't have everything working
before the reformat. I am using all the same hardware and even the
same Windows CD, so everything is identical. I double checked and
even reformatted and reinstalled XP again today with the same result.
The chipset drivers are installed and Windows is up to date. I tried
for the heck of it to install my sound card an low and behold, when I
try to install drivers for that, the same thing happens.

The PC just completely locks up as it begins to install drivers.
For the graphics card it's when the ATI screen pops up, for the sound
card it's when the Creative screen pops up. I have updated my BIOS
with the newest version and also my drivers, all with the same result.
I am stumped right now on what to do. Any help is appreciated.
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Have the same problem with my Gigabyte mb, & the ati 1650 drivers; it
would only work in "vesa" mode even with the "latest" drivers or the drivers
that are several (5) versions old.

My solution was just to get a nivida chipset video card & packed away the
ati 1650 w/512 meg as "useless".. Luckyly, Frys had the EVGA 6600 gt
w/512 on sale plus rebate; I'm happy to say that I got the rebate very
quickly.
 
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