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Air Force Jayhawk
First step to fixing a bad AIW 9000 cranky install.
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AFJ
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Air Force Jayhawk
First step to fixing a bad AIW 9000 cranky install.
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AFJ
Sorry...Win XP Home
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Merl Byrd
I have the same issue with Win XP Home: no apparent way to configure a AIW
Radeon with a standard VGA driver when updating drivers. Because of this I
wasn't able to install Catalyst 3.9, but fortunately was able to reinstall
Catalyst 3.8. I've tried Safe Mode and VGA mode (from the Win XP boot menu)
to no avail. No matter what I do after deinstalling Catalyst, Win XP will
install the bundled Win XP AIW Radeon drivers at boot. Add/Remove hardware
shows no option for installing a VGA driver in the way that prior versions
of Windows enable.
Radeon with a standard VGA driver when updating drivers. Because of this I
wasn't able to install Catalyst 3.9, but fortunately was able to reinstall
Catalyst 3.8. I've tried Safe Mode and VGA mode (from the Win XP boot menu)
to no avail. No matter what I do after deinstalling Catalyst, Win XP will
install the bundled Win XP AIW Radeon drivers at boot. Add/Remove hardware
shows no option for installing a VGA driver in the way that prior versions
of Windows enable.
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JDM
Merl Byrd said:I have the same issue with Win XP Home: no apparent way to configure a AIW
Radeon with a standard VGA driver when updating drivers. Because of this I
wasn't able to install Catalyst 3.9, but fortunately was able to reinstall
Catalyst 3.8. I've tried Safe Mode and VGA mode (from the Win XP boot menu)
to no avail. No matter what I do after deinstalling Catalyst, Win XP will
install the bundled Win XP AIW Radeon drivers at boot. Add/Remove hardware
shows no option for installing a VGA driver in the way that prior versions
of Windows enable.
You might try deleting the ATI directory under "C" prior to removing
any current drivers via Control Panel. Hope this helps!
JDM
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J.Clarke
On 17 Dec 2003 09:19:11 -0800
Doesn't. The device drivers are stored in a subdirectory of the Windows
directory. And going there and deleting them manually may result in an
unbootable machine.
Instead reboot and bring the machine up in VGA mode, which you get by
pressing "F8" at the proper place in the boot cycle.
You might try deleting the ATI directory under "C" prior to removing
any current drivers via Control Panel. Hope this helps!
Doesn't. The device drivers are stored in a subdirectory of the Windows
directory. And going there and deleting them manually may result in an
unbootable machine.
Instead reboot and bring the machine up in VGA mode, which you get by
pressing "F8" at the proper place in the boot cycle.
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JAD
one way is to let the install go to native then look at driver details. write down the files associated with the .INF. Go to the
c:windows/INF and delete the INF file associated with the native driver. Look in a folder '/other' in the same directory, also.
You should then get the new hardware found wizard. Some aren't able to get a 'standard VGA from here for some reason, but you can
install fresh updates. INF folder is 'hidden' make appropriate attribute change.
c:windows/INF and delete the INF file associated with the native driver. Look in a folder '/other' in the same directory, also.
You should then get the new hardware found wizard. Some aren't able to get a 'standard VGA from here for some reason, but you can
install fresh updates. INF folder is 'hidden' make appropriate attribute change.
M
Merl Byrd
Thanks. I tried VGA mode a couple of times. When I did my install of XP Home
stubbornly shows that is is using Microsoft's bundled Radeon driver, not a
vanilla VGA driver. I'll try booting to VGA mode *before* I de-install the
old driver and see what happens. In any case, driver version 3.10 is out
today so I will try to install that version and see if it avoids the
installation problem I have with 3.9.
stubbornly shows that is is using Microsoft's bundled Radeon driver, not a
vanilla VGA driver. I'll try booting to VGA mode *before* I de-install the
old driver and see what happens. In any case, driver version 3.10 is out
today so I will try to install that version and see if it avoids the
installation problem I have with 3.9.
J
J.Clarke
Thanks. I tried VGA mode a couple of times. When I did my install of
XP Home stubbornly shows that is is using Microsoft's bundled Radeon
driver, not a vanilla VGA driver.
It shows that but that's not what it's using. I've had the machine
boot in VGA mode when the drivers were totally hosed, but it still
reported that that was the driver it was using.
I'll try booting to VGA mode
*before* I de-install the old driver and see what happens. In any
case, driver version 3.10 is out today so I will try to install that
version and see if it avoids the installation problem I have with 3.9.
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Alpine
Boot to Safe Mode (press <F5> during boot-up). Then from Safe Mode go to
Control Panel and remove your ATI driver if it is listed. If it tells you
that you have to reboot to finish go ahead, but reboot back to Safe Mode
again. From Safe Mode install your latest ATI driver disk. When you boot to
Safe Mode, Windows will load the Generic VGA driver. That was how I got rid
of my Nvidia drivers when I switched to ATI. No problems encountered. I
first tried just to uninstall my Nvidia drivers from Control Panel and then
rebooted expecting to get the generic VGA driver, but Windows will reload
the drivers even after you supposedly removed them. Standard VGA wasn't even
an option. When I booted to Safe Mode, the video driver was listed as
Standard VGA.
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Control Panel and remove your ATI driver if it is listed. If it tells you
that you have to reboot to finish go ahead, but reboot back to Safe Mode
again. From Safe Mode install your latest ATI driver disk. When you boot to
Safe Mode, Windows will load the Generic VGA driver. That was how I got rid
of my Nvidia drivers when I switched to ATI. No problems encountered. I
first tried just to uninstall my Nvidia drivers from Control Panel and then
rebooted expecting to get the generic VGA driver, but Windows will reload
the drivers even after you supposedly removed them. Standard VGA wasn't even
an option. When I booted to Safe Mode, the video driver was listed as
Standard VGA.
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Merl Byrd said:Thanks. I tried VGA mode a couple of times. When I did my install of XP Home
stubbornly shows that is is using Microsoft's bundled Radeon driver, not a
vanilla VGA driver. I'll try booting to VGA mode *before* I de-install the
old driver and see what happens. In any case, driver version 3.10 is out
today so I will try to install that version and see if it avoids the
installation problem I have with 3.9.