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ATI Driver woes.

ChrisJSY

ChrisJSY

ChrisJSY

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Before I go on, if someone spots something I have done wrong, please let me know, thanks! :)


Hi all,

Ever since I purchased my 4870X2 I have had nothing but trouble re: driver installation and updates, sometimes making me spend an hour or more fixing the problems.

Before then I have always, /always/ used nvidia and never had a problem once with installing a driver, even using below methods.

I bought the card around the 9.4 stages and for each 9.5/9.6 and now 9.7 I have had problems.

With the update of 9.7 I have done the route of;

1: Installing the drivers over the old, which on searching this very forum most people do as the install manager does the rest for you.
This does not work for me.

2: Uninstalling the drivers and software first, restarting, installing the new drivers, restarting. No go.

3: Uninstalling drivers & Software, running driver cleaner, restarting in safemode and double checking every last remnant is gone. Back to windows normal and install drivers, asks to restart, do so and no go.

Not only that, if I repeat a process for testing sake, I will get differentiating errors.

- Sometimes it will tell me I am using the wrong operating system, other times it won't, with the same driver installation file.

- Sometimes it will tell me it does not recognise a valid card for the driver.

I noticed that my Common Desktop registry was altered during one of these processes (registry notify program) to "blank" which gave me the errors,

- The remote procedure call failed.
- Error number: 0x80040707
- Zero Display Service Error

Setting "Blank" to my desktop location fixed this, why it was changed by the installation package is beyond me.

I have now, reverted back to 9.6 with not a single error .
The last error I had was from 9-7_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu.exe telling me I am using the wrong operating system. This is not the case.

Everythings back to normal for now, but I cannot update to 9.7 whatever I do, even an operating system reinstall (spare HDD) did not fix the problems.

I understand certain hardware/software configuraitons will inevitably create issues like this and I seem to be that case, but I've never been so infuriated with installing something before.

I will be buying a new system tin the coming weeks as I have a few bottlenecks, I will report back to see if the problems persist.
I do not think the card is faulty because in 9.6's works fine and I can play all my games ok.

If it does continue on my new system, I'm going back to nvidia. Stick with what you know right?


System specs;

Q6700
Corsair XMS2 2GB PC2/8500
Asus P5B Deluxe
Win XP 32 SP3
Creative X-fi sound card.
 
Update, new PC arrived and everything is working fine.
It seems my last issue was caused by driver cleaner which everyone here seems to use, corrupting something in the operating system/registry/.dll's,
I am not going to use driver cleaner again and I'm warey of updating my drivers to the 9.8s released recently, should I just run the 9.8 without messing around with the old drivers?
 
More & more people are not using a driver cleaner now until a problem occurs because the driver cleaner can be the cause of the problem.
 
I just run the Install Manager from the Add/Remove and never had a problem, i don't see the need to use a sweeping program when they include an uninstaller that does the job. :)

Could just install over the top to (like said above), as before it installs, it will automatically remove the previous set first anyway.
 
Not used any sweeper for ages!


I just uninstall the drivers, reboot, install the new drivers. Never had any problems!
 
I used to use Driver Cleaner.

A) Uninstall old drivers from Control Panel.
B) Reboot in safe mode.
C) Run Driver Cleaner to clear out remnants
D) Reboot in normal mode.
E) Install new drivers.

I've not had any trouble in a fair few years of ATI cards using this method. I read it somewhere once that this is the best way to do it and it's served me well.

Once I was in a rush and installed the new drivers over the old ones. Guess what? Driver wouldn't start properly. But I just did the five steps above and it worked again.

I've had the opposite experience to you. Whenever I get a new ATI card, I just install the newest drivers and off I go. With nVidia cards, well, I had a GF2 that would only take the drivers on the install disk, go figure (they were ancient), a 7800GS that gave erratic performance, and an 8800GT that was just plain nasty (corruption everywhere).

Still, my girlfriend's machine has an 8800GTS G92 in it. I built that machine for her. It all installed fine. Latest drivers, and off she went with it. It's been solid as a rock.

So i'm pretty much cursed. Great. :o
 
i use ccleaner and then sometimes go into the registry and delete any traces of ati

btw there are traces of ati after window uninstall

you have to go into program files and user files to delete all the ati files
 
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