RADEON 900 Pro Uninstall Nightmare

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Steve Tom

I'm trying to install the newest drivers for my RADEON 9000 Pro. The
directions tell me to first "Uninstall the ATI Display Driver", but when
I go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the driver, it's there again
when the system reboots. I'M GOING IN-SAAAAANE! On reboot, when the
several 'New Hardware Found' balloons come up, I click the x in the
balloon to stop them, but nothing does any good.

How do you uninstall the driver (I've got two, actually - RADEON 9000
and RADEON 9000 Secondary) and keep it uninstalled? Do I have to
uninstall all other ATI products first, like the Control Panel and
Multimedia Center and ATI Remote Wonder?

Ay-yi-yi.

Thanks in advance,
Steve
 
I have never bothered to uninstall before installing new drivers. I bet if
you could uninstall in Safe Mode if you tried.

-Kent
 
First what OS are you running? If you are running 98 Me you have to delete the INF files pertaining to ATI from
X:/windows/INF/other that way windows can't reinstall the enhanced ATI drivers. If your using XP it has a generic broken down ATI
driver that may be loading at start up. However, you can do your update from those drivers if you want. Its hard to get XP to
default to 'standard VGA' like we were used to in 98 Me even 2000, but now that XP gets driver version updates (signed) its driver
base has grown enough to exclude old default stuff.
 
Uninstall driver and ignore the restart messinger and uninstall ati controll
panel
Then restart works for me.
 
"Michael.Carlsson - Uninstall driver and ignore the restart message and
uninstall ati control
panel then restart works for me".

Same here - if I check C:\winnt for ati files after this it only shows
one help file so the uninstall works well. I also use Regcleaner to remove
any redundant registry settings before installing the new drivers but
thats just cause I'm fussy about keeping the registry from getting bloated.
Btw - the best drivers are the 3.7s and lastly ... you have 2 display
adpters under
device manager because you have a card with 2 or more outputs.
 
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