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Jon Davis
On an Acer Aspire 5050 which has a Radeon Xpress 200M I upgraded a healthy
configuration of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to Windows Vista
Ultimate. Everything has been working fine for the last month, with
beautiful 3D video, Aero support, Media Center support, game play support,
etc., until now.
After ATI's Vista update "failed to find any installable components," I made
the idiotic mistake of opening up the Display settings and choosing "Search
automatically for updated driver software". IMO this is a severely broken
component of Vista but that's not the point of my post here. The automatic
update UNINSTALLED all of my video card drivers and told me I "successfully"
updated to the "Standard VGA Adapter".
The "Rollback Driver" button is, and always has been, dimmed. I'd try
rebooting to the "last successful hardware configuration" if it's available,
but I've already rebooted a few times with different attempts to fix this.
I had recently downloaded the Vista RTM drivers from ATI/AMD's web site, but
all Setup does is tell me that there are no compatible components to install
(that was both before and after "updating" to the "Standard VGA Adapter").
However, the .inf file containing a reference to the Xpress 200 series is
there. (Actually, three such references are there.)
I tried pointing to this .inf file, but Windows fails to try installing it
because it "cannot find the required files". There are several DLLs in this
directory where the .inf file was extracted, but their filenames are
suffixed with ".dl_" rather than ".dll". Does anyone know whether these
".dl_" files are compressed, and if so, how they can and should be expanded
for this purpose?
Jon
configuration of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to Windows Vista
Ultimate. Everything has been working fine for the last month, with
beautiful 3D video, Aero support, Media Center support, game play support,
etc., until now.
After ATI's Vista update "failed to find any installable components," I made
the idiotic mistake of opening up the Display settings and choosing "Search
automatically for updated driver software". IMO this is a severely broken
component of Vista but that's not the point of my post here. The automatic
update UNINSTALLED all of my video card drivers and told me I "successfully"
updated to the "Standard VGA Adapter".
The "Rollback Driver" button is, and always has been, dimmed. I'd try
rebooting to the "last successful hardware configuration" if it's available,
but I've already rebooted a few times with different attempts to fix this.
I had recently downloaded the Vista RTM drivers from ATI/AMD's web site, but
all Setup does is tell me that there are no compatible components to install
(that was both before and after "updating" to the "Standard VGA Adapter").
However, the .inf file containing a reference to the Xpress 200 series is
there. (Actually, three such references are there.)
I tried pointing to this .inf file, but Windows fails to try installing it
because it "cannot find the required files". There are several DLLs in this
directory where the .inf file was extracted, but their filenames are
suffixed with ".dl_" rather than ".dll". Does anyone know whether these
".dl_" files are compressed, and if so, how they can and should be expanded
for this purpose?
Jon