Omega Drivers

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Bill

After going through an endless number of reboots and the
continuing 'found new hardware' stuff, I discovered that the
ATI update driver required registery cleaning.

There must be a better way and Omega seems to be the
answer. I am on a version 5.1 driver and have changed to
a new Samsung flat panel ( retired my ViewSonic 20") and
want to be sure that it is covered. I have a Radeon X700.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Bill
 
Bill said:
After going through an endless number of reboots and the
continuing 'found new hardware' stuff, I discovered that the
ATI update driver required registery cleaning.
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Bullocks....Never done it.Always installed the new one over the old
one.Never had any problems what- so-ever.
You can NEVER clean out the registry anyway.Not even with the ATI's cleaner
AND this is a FACT.
There must be a better way and Omega seems to be the
answer.
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Bullocks.Omega is the best registry stuff up.It is based on the ATI driver
anyway.


I am on a version 5.1 driver and have changed to
 
Bill said:
After going through an endless number of reboots and the
continuing 'found new hardware' stuff, I discovered that the
ATI update driver required registery cleaning.

There must be a better way and Omega seems to be the
answer. I am on a version 5.1 driver and have changed to
a new Samsung flat panel ( retired my ViewSonic 20") and
want to be sure that it is covered. I have a Radeon X700.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Bill
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Didn't entirely understand what your question was. You want to upgrade
from 5.1?

Although a newsgroup will mostly reflect those who get into problems,
there are I am sure many like me who have repeatedly installed drivers
over older drivers without any issues. You probably won't remove all
traces with the ATI cleaner. Removing in add/remove programs is
probably enough and sometimes I don't even do that! This is not a
recommendation, just a perspective and a re-assurance that often times
this works. Having said that, going from a 6.x driver to another 6.x
driver is a bit different to going all the way up from 5.1, so maybe
you'd want more care with that. Maybe.

Good though the Omegas are, and a useful way to get the older Control
Panel, and avoid downloading or using the CCC if you don't wish it, they
are just modified ATI drivers and are installed the same way. It isn't
as if you have a whole new product on your hands there. In fact, when I
tried to go from Omega 6.3 to Omega 6.5 I had issues of my own, not
cleaning related, with the 6.5 installer not finding an ini file, so
what can I tell you?!


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Didn't entirely understand what your question was. You want to upgrade
from 5.1?

Although a newsgroup will mostly reflect those who get into problems,
there are I am sure many like me who have repeatedly installed drivers
over older drivers without any issues. You probably won't remove all
traces with the ATI cleaner. Removing in add/remove programs is
probably enough and sometimes I don't even do that! This is not a
recommendation, just a perspective and a re-assurance that often times
this works. Having said that, going from a 6.x driver to another 6.x
driver is a bit different to going all the way up from 5.1, so maybe
you'd want more care with that. Maybe.

Good though the Omegas are, and a useful way to get the older Control
Panel, and avoid downloading or using the CCC if you don't wish it, they
are just modified ATI drivers and are installed the same way. It isn't
as if you have a whole new product on your hands there. In fact, when I
tried to go from Omega 6.3 to Omega 6.5 I had issues of my own, not
cleaning related, with the 6.5 installer not finding an ini file, so
what can I tell you?!


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Thanks for the advice. I think all I need is the .inf file with the
new driver, but am going to try the 'uninstall' and then the Omega
stuff. Gonna mske a new image file too - just in case.
 
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