Driver problem with new HD4850

[just Scott]

OK, I just installed my PowerColor HD4850. I plugged it in, booted into Windows and installed the 8.7 drivers. After I restarted I got that "search for drivers" box popup, and after cancelling that a popup comes up telling me there was a problem installing the drivers and the hardware may be faulty. I look in the device manager and I see "Unknown device" where the video card should be.

So I uninstalled the 8.7 drivers, rebooted, installed the 8.6 drivers, rebooted and same thing. I tried reseating the card, but it didn't do anything.

What's strange is I didn't notice the problems at first (choppy scrolling on web pages) because I went straight into the DMC4 benchmark, which ran fine and recognised the card.

My system is:

E6320 currently at 2.9GHz
Gigabyte S3 P965
Antec SmartPower 450W (this is pushing it a bit, but the minimum requirement for a 4850 is 450W so it should be fine shouldn't it?)
2GB GeIL PC6400
WD5000AAKS 500GB HDD
Windows XP Pro SP2

Coming from a 6600GT, I used Driver Cleaner to get rid of the Nvidia drivers before installing the new card.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[pieman109]

Do you have net frame 3 installed? If not, instal it and try again

 

[just Scott]

Hmm, this is weird. I just tried the drivers on the disk and it worked.

Do you have net frame 3 installed? If not, instal it and try again

I'm pretty sure I did have, but the disk installed framework anyway, which might have been the fix.

The disk comes with 8.5 drivers according to device manager. I'm going to try and install 8.7 again, to see if it was the framework that fixed it. I couldn't sworn I had framework 3 though.

Thanks mate

 

[pieman109]

I had a similar prob meself. I had to instal from the disc first, then I could instal any subsequently downloaded driver pack afterwards. I have no idea why though but it works well if you do it that way (I thought your prob sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember the fix)

 

[just Scott]

I had a similar prob meself. I had to instal from the disc first, then I could instal any subsequently downloaded driver pack afterwards. I have no idea why though but it works well if you do it that way (I thought your prob sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember the fix)

Ah right.

Well thanks for the info mate

 

[C64]

Use driver cleaner and "driver sweeper">http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655 then get rid of the nvidia startup entries "run msconfig" what I did was uncheck the nvcpl and nvdaemon then run regedit and search for nvcpl etc and delete the keys.

 

[just Scott]

Use driver cleaner and "driver sweeper">http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655 then get rid of the nvidia startup entries "run msconfig" what I did was uncheck the nvcpl and nvdaemon then run regedit and search for nvcpl etc and delete the keys.

Alright, did everything you said there. Thanks mate.

Everything looks good now, shouldn't have any more probs.

Thanks lads