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Robert Ziegler

Here we go. I did a repair with windows xp home. The x800xl nevered show up.
Check on the device manager and there is no display. Can't get the x800 xl
driver to load up. Guess I will have to format and start over again. Hate to
have to load everything up again. Can anyone help me fix this.
 
Here we go. I did a repair with windows xp home. The x800xl nevered show up.
Check on the device manager and there is no display. Can't get the x800 xl
driver to load up. Guess I will have to format and start over again. Hate to
have to load everything up again. Can anyone help me fix this.
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If you expect a video driver to show up for a card that was created
well after XP was made, that would indicate the need to go download
the latest driver for your video card from the manufacturer's site,
then install it.

Hopefully you havve something under devmgmt.msc that indicates there
is an unknown or Standard VGA Adapter there for the real drivers to
replace.

Problem solved.
 
Robert Ziegler said:
Here we go. I did a repair with windows xp home. The x800xl
nevered show up. Check on the device manager and there is no
display. Can't get the x800 xl driver to load up. Guess I will
have to format and start over again. Hate to have to load
everything up again. Can anyone help me fix this.
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Sorry, can't help with your current problem and this might be over
your head, but.

Using a disk manager like Partition Magic or Partition Manager can
help nuke problems like that. Windows utilities have almost always
proven to be useless, so I've never depended on System Restore.
Keeping a backup copy of my windows partition is about as valuable
as Windows itself.

It does lots of things:
.... make incremental Windows installations
.... easily recover from any software problem
.... troubleshoot software/hardware problems and then revert to a
copy of your nice and neat backup installation to do a well
rehearsed fix

You have to know what items to back up and restore when restoring a
copy of the Windows partition. But you should know that anyway.

Hmm. I wonder if Vista has made backing up the Windows partition
more difficult than Windows XP did.

Good luck.
 
Sorry, can't help with your current problem and this might be over
your head, but.

Using a disk manager like Partition Magic or Partition Manager can
help nuke problems like that. Windows utilities have almost always
proven to be useless, so I've never depended on System Restore.
Keeping a backup copy of my windows partition is about as valuable
as Windows itself.

It does lots of things:
... make incremental Windows installations
... easily recover from any software problem
... troubleshoot software/hardware problems and then revert to a
copy of your nice and neat backup installation to do a well
rehearsed fix

You have to know what items to back up and restore when restoring a
copy of the Windows partition. But you should know that anyway.

Hmm. I wonder if Vista has made backing up the Windows partition
more difficult than Windows XP did.

Good luck.
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What In The **** Is A Partition Manager Going To Do About A Clean
Install Of Any OS That DOES NOT HAVE THE DRIVERS FOR ANY GIVEN HARWARE
DEVICE ALREADY IN IT?

GarDangBlang GOOGLE GROUP GROPES FOR NOT HAVING A PLONKMEISTER
ROUTINE!!!

One that eliminates Really Stupid People From Threads, like John Doe.


I HAVE SO FALLEN' FOR IT!!!


what a ****ING DUMB-ASS JOHN DOE IS!
 
Here we go. I did a repair with windows xp home. The x800xl nevered show up.
Check on the device manager and there is no display. Can't get the x800 xl
driver to load up. Guess I will have to format and start over again. Hate to
have to load everything up again. Can anyone help me fix this.
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When you use XP Sytem Restore, it puts your system back to the state
AND DATE IN TIME THE OS WAS RELEASED (not system clock, device driver
revision time)...

You need to update your drivers.

**** JOHN DOE!
 
When you use XP Sytem Restore, it puts your system back to the state
AND DATE IN TIME THE OS WAS RELEASED
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WRONG. It puts your PC back to the state it was WHEN THE RESTORE POINT
WAS CREATED.
 
Infinicat said:
On Feb 19, 7:15 pm, John Doe <j... usenetlove.invalid> wrote:
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What In The **** Is A Partition Manager Going To Do About A Clean
Install Of Any OS That DOES NOT HAVE THE DRIVERS FOR ANY GIVEN
HARWARE DEVICE ALREADY IN IT?
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I could use an English translation.

Having a backup copy of the Windows partition (FWIW, I keep the
programs there too) eliminates the need to use Microsoft's restore
utility. So, whatever the original problem, then it could have been
solved without using System Restore.
 
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