Vista Update recommending bad drivers? ATI X800GT Vista RC1

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I've been using RC1 since it was released, haven't upgraded it to RC2 or RTM.

I have the ATI X800GT, and haven't had any issues with display, until now.

A couple weeks ago, Windows Update told me there were new drivers for my ATI
card, and suggested I install them, which I did. From the looks of it, it
tried to install two things for it, the second of which failed.

Now I'm having display issues; like when the monitor goes to sleep; when I
wake it up, all I can see is a black screen and my mouse pointer. I have to
Ctrl-Alt-Del to get any display (ESC-ing out of that then brings my desktop
back).

Plus programs that used to work fine in Aero now need to have all of my
programs switch to the Basic display, such as WinAVI Video Converter.

What is even more frustrating though, is there appears to be no way for me
to roll back the new drivers that Update suggested. The Roll Back Driver
option is greyed out, unclickable. I've tried downloading and installing the
drivers of 13/12/06 straight from ATI's website over the top, but this
doesn't help (although I *can* roll those drivers back.

Can anyone help me get my computer back to it's former
working-perfectly-fine-before-Windows-Update-came-along glory?

Thank you for listening :).
 
Yep, exact same issue for me. Get the latest XP driver and your troubles
will go away until they can fix it. I was using the XP driver with no
issues until the Windows Update installed the Beta ATI sriver for Vista.
 
Use system restore and go back to a time before you installed the flaky
drivers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Thanks for your suggestion :). Unfortunately this didn't work for me, I
think my system was too far gone with multiple drivers by then... Another
user suggested System Restore, and that worked like a charm.
 
Thanks for that, worked perfectly! So easy :).

Richard Urban said:
Use system restore and go back to a time before you installed the flaky
drivers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Sorry if this double-posts, it fell over the first time.

Long story short, turns out this fix didn't work so well; it ended up
blue-screening every ten minutes or so.

Eventually, after much work, got *some* drivers installed, the RC1 ATI ones.
Wanted to get the XP ones, but another long story there with the standard
VGA adaptor, etc etc.

Anyways. Beside the point. After all this muckaround, and system restores,
and changing of drivers etc etc, it's done something to my Media Centre
Extender (Xbox360) where it now won't connect. I've tried disconnecting it
and reconnecting it, doesn't help.

It gets to the "Media Centre Connecting" screen, and sits there for about
five minutes before it says there was "a failure" and it could not connect :/.

Any suggestions? Could this be tied to the display failures in some way?
 
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