When you go on the Uninstall wizard on 'ati uninstaller' can't you click 'custom' and then untick the chipset drivers so they're not uninstalled?? ...
Just 'unticking' no?
thats what i try. I have no idea how i got the 8.2's installed, i uninstalled the 8.1's like that, custom, only the drivers and ccc part, nothing else, reboot, blue screen, system restore, uninstall 8.1's the same way and install the 8.2's before reboot, seems to get back to windows but not really recognise drivers so reinstall the 8.2's and it finally worked.
This time same deal uninstalled the 8.2's only the relevant parts, blue screen, last known config worked this time(didn't last, system restore takes ages as that damn vista dvd is SOOOO slow getting to an installable point, i have no clue why its sooo damn slow). at that point the 8.2's were back, uninstalled them, installed the 8.3's before reboot, rebooted, said no drivers installed, tried the 8.3's again at that point and every single time it just said during the ati driver install part that the inf was not found and it failed to install. Completely baffled, no idea why any of it is happening.
It has to be doing something other than whats listed in regards to installing/uninstalling. never seen this issue with an ati install(or nvidia for that matter) over the past 5 years. But this is first time i've used an ati chipset, why they intergrate any part of the chipset drivers with the gfx drivers i don't know. especially as the uninstall seems to do something other than what it should be. Ever so slightly more complicated by the raid issue and windows not being recognised without that installed, although saying that a lot of the bluescreening in all this is after it goes from windows bar loading just before it goes to desktop so its probably not quite that.
basically i have no idea what it is, so i don't know how to avoid it.
Pretty much you'd think, uninstall previous drivers, reboot, install new ones would work, as it always has. but i get bluescreens before installing new ones.
GRRR, finally had a go at another company after they sent off my p35 gigabyte for rma, 5 weeks later i was pretty angry at being ignored so harassed them massively via e-mail yesterday which resulted in credit note and i was told a replacement(abit quad gt x38) was being processed and would be sent out yesterday. So gave up with this hoping i could just do a fresh install with my Q6600 system working again. NO mobo arrived today though, will hope it turns up tomorrow.
This gigabyte board is truly awful, 790fx, i don't think its the chipset, a lot of people are finding issues with this board with phenoms, quite a lot had horribly unstable phenom + gigabyte 790fx setups, but a change to asus/dfi/sapphire/msi and its all stable. Maybe the driver issue is down to dodgey bios/driver/unstable setup in general.
) over the x1950xtx I sold for this card to replace! ATI need to fix this issue and give me 100% of the available performance 100% of the time when gaming.