Author Topic: ATI drive uninstall (Read 261 times)

SNO · « **on:** May 27, 2004, 07:00:02 AM »

I am trying to update my driver for 9800pro and when i go to control panel to unistall I get the little box with error intializing, figured hmm. So go to the ATI site where I found an ATI unistaller ...... cleans everything, well I got the "error intial" again so I can't uninstall my old drivers. Any ideas what is causing this error? ATI support page pretty much worthless unless I am clueless as to where to find this ? (wouldn't suprise me though)
Thanks

maddog · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2004, 10:13:12 AM »

try changing your driver to "standard VGA" and try uninstalling ATI again... I never had to do that but its worth a try...

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2004, 11:05:49 AM »

If you are doing an incremental update, say from Catalyst 4.3 to Catalyst 4.4, you can go ahead and install the new driver, then uninstall the driver, boot to the VGA driver, then reinstall the driver.
This will only work for an incremental upgrade and not for a major jump.

SNO · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2004, 06:28:36 PM »

Well , I have had a problem with not being able to see anything in the device manager or the network connection page for some time and have tried everything to get them back short of reinstalling XP, sooo it looks like that could be the problem that there is a corupt file or setting somewhere. I guess I am going to have to reinstall XP and problems should be fixed

Thanks for trying

Dingbat · « **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2004, 06:47:03 AM »

have you re-installed yet?

If not here is what u need to do. I've had the exact same problem.

1. Extract the driver package to your desktop (if you have winzip, right click --> extract to:) EX. c:\ati

2. open device manager

3. double click on the video device displayed

4. click the driver tab

5. Click the "install from a list or specific location" radial button

6. Click the include this path checkbox and type the path. Ex. c:\ati\Driver\2KXP_INF

7. Click next and follow the rest of the prompts.

SNO · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2004, 08:06:00 AM »

Dingbat, no I haven't reinstalled yet. Appreciate the info and would try it right now but, my xp installation is corrupt or file missing or whatever as I haven't been able to see my device manager or network connection page as they are blank when you pull them up. Tried all the suggestions on a previous post to fix it to no avail, so I think the whole problem is linked to that. Thanks

Dingbat · « **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2004, 08:16:37 AM »

try runing System File Checker
start -> RUn
sfc /scannow

also,

did you disable anything in services?