What is Repair Install ?

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Reading in another thread about losing audio (after several weeks) on TV,
the agreement seemed to be a Repair Install of the ATI software to fix. Can
anyone describe what a repair install is ? On this group I've heard so many
horror stories about removing and reinstalling ATI software that, quite
honestly I'm spooked about trying it.

ATI AIW 2006 PCIE
MMC V 9.12

Thanks

jim
 
Hi, Jim.

I'm very familiar with the term "repair install", but only as it applies to
Windows itself. I've also seen references here to a repair install of ATI
software and wondered about it.

A repair install of Windows is also known as an "in-place upgrade" or simply
as a reinstallation. It basically means reinstalling Windows itself while
leaving your applications and drivers - and most of your tweaks - installed.
As the phrase in-place upgrade suggests, it "upgrades" WinXP to WinXP,
hopefully replacing a damaged version with a fresh installation of the same
thing, without erasing or changing the parts of the Registry that deal only
with installed software. For official instructions, see this article from
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341

I've done repair installs of WinXP several times and recommended it many
times in the Microsoft Public newsgroups, with positive feedback. But I'm
not familiar at all with doing such a thing on ATI software. I'll be
watching with you for an explanation here.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(currently running Windows Mail 7 in Vista x64 Build 5472)
 
Jim Bailey said:
Reading in another thread about losing audio (after several weeks) on TV,
the agreement seemed to be a Repair Install of the ATI software to fix.
Can anyone describe what a repair install is ? On this group I've heard
so many horror stories about removing and reinstalling ATI software that,
quite honestly I'm spooked about trying it.

ATI AIW 2006 PCIE
MMC V 9.12

Thanks

jim
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I have heard that term used for XP itself, but not with ATI software. What I
would do is to get the latest drivers from ATI and then go to "Add or Remove
Programs" in Control Panel and select the ATI Software Uninstall Utility and
that should remove all ATI software from your system. Then reboot and click
cancel when XP wants to install drivers. Install the new drivers and MMC,
reboot and you should be just fine. There shouldn't be any horror stories
about installing new drivers, it is pretty much cut and dried.

Ed
 
Jim Bailey said:
Reading in another thread about losing audio (after several weeks) on TV,
the agreement seemed to be a Repair Install of the ATI software to fix.
Can anyone describe what a repair install is ? On this group I've heard
so many horror stories about removing and reinstalling ATI software that,
quite honestly I'm spooked about trying it.

ATI AIW 2006 PCIE
MMC V 9.12

Thanks

jim
Click to expand...

Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > ATI MMC >
click on Change/Remove.
Setup window appears with Modify, Repair, Uninstall. Select Repair.
 
Thanks to everybody responding. I went and got the 9.14 MMC and 6.7 CCC
stuff from the web site and read the directions pretty thoroughly. I'll try
uninstall/install new stuff and see what happens. Thanks again.

jim
 
R. C. White said:
Hi, Jim.

I'm very familiar with the term "repair install", but only as it applies to
Windows itself. I've also seen references here to a repair install of ATI
software and wondered about it.

A repair install of Windows is also known as an "in-place upgrade" or simply
as a reinstallation. It basically means reinstalling Windows itself while
leaving your applications and drivers - and most of your tweaks - installed.
As the phrase in-place upgrade suggests, it "upgrades" WinXP to WinXP,
hopefully replacing a damaged version with a fresh installation of the same
thing, without erasing or changing the parts of the Registry that deal only
with installed software. For official instructions, see this article from
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341

I've done repair installs of WinXP several times and recommended it many
times in the Microsoft Public newsgroups, with positive feedback. But I'm
not familiar at all with doing such a thing on ATI software. I'll be
watching with you for an explanation here.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(currently running Windows Mail 7 in Vista x64 Build 5472)
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Can't give details but your description seems spot on to the way it works.
If you have a working setup and it gets corrupted, chances of a Repair
Install beings successful is high and you don't have to go through the
initialization steps again either. Sometimes it helps when a fresh install
doesn't work but only occasionally. It's so easy, I always try it first and
it is the least likely to cause problems.
AFAIK you have to leave the files in C:\ati\support (or wherever they we're
unpacked to for this, and Modify, to work). Doing a full reinstall of MMC
has been common enough in the past that I always leave them there anyway.
The only problems to this I can think of, is when I did an install to
E:\ati\support but left an install in C:\ati\support and ended up with a
driver mix-up when I did a repair. Removing old versions or renaming the
path should eliminate that problem.
 
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