Reinstalling accidentally deleted display drivers

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Hello, I accidentally deleted all the ATI display drivers installed with
Vista when I tried to uninstall some older ATI drivers that I was trying out.
The uninstall not only uninstalled the old drivers, it uninstalled every ATI
driver on the computer that it could find, so I can't go back to the Vista
drivers that were included with the install. Does anyone know how to get
those drivers back off the Vista install disk without completely reinstalling
the OS. I've reinstalled the older XP drivers and they work, but aren't
quite as good as those I found in Vista. I have an ATI Mobile Radeon 9000
IGP display card/chip. Thanks!
 
Boot into safe mode. Insert your Vista DVD and abort the setup screen. Go
into your Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Device Manager. Right click
your display adapter and select Update driver software. Hopefully if you
select Search automatically it will check the DVD. If that fails you would
have to Browse for the path of the drivers.
 
Do you have any idea what the path to the drivers would be? I looked on the
DVD and couldn't decipher where anything was, as it was such a different
directory structure than XP.
 
Sorry, I didn't work. First said current drivers were up to date (in Safe
Mode, uses standard driver). When I searched the Vista DVD is could not find
drivers; it only found few remaining ATI drivers on my hard drive that
weren't named ATI and thus weren't removed by uninstall utility. I guess if
I want them back, I'll need to reinstall, but thanks anyway.
 
Try running WinUpdate and you may just get the latest Vista ATI drivers that
MS has approved for Vista. If you have trouble with a normal boot you could
try an F8 boot with networking and WinUpdate.
 
I don't because I haven't had to try this. Jo, does ATI have the drivers
available on their website like Nvidia does?
 
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