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Swapping from ATI to NVIDIA

v8ninety

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HI,

Purchased a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC from Overclockers which should hopefully be arriving today.

I'm upgrading from an Radeon 4890 so want to check what I should be doing about the current ATI Catalyst installation I have. Looking on the AMD website they indicate that running the normal uninstall from the W7 Control Panel will be enough to remove everything, is this enough? should I run any cleaners?

My plan of attack is:
1) Uninstall ATi Catalyst Softeare
2) Reboot with 48890 still in PC (to make sure everything clears from memory)
3) Swap cards (after shutdown obviuosly)
4) Reboot and install new drivers / software

Does this sequence sound OK or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
ide re-install windows if possible. Graphics drivers are a bitch to swap over, and most cleaners make more problems.
 
I would do the following:

1) Uninstall Catalyst from control panel. When prompt for a reboot, decline.
2) Shutdown the machine and never enter Windows again before the ATI card is swapped out.
3) Install the 560 Ti into the rig.
4) Power on, and install Forceware.
 
Do what #3 writes. NEVER reboot after uninstalling the drivers (that's the cause of many headaches!), since windows automatically will install generic drivers for your card again. Uninstall the drivers and say no to reboot and instead shut down the PC and swap cards.

After that you may want to run DriverSweeper in windows failsafe mode just to clear registry entries etc for AMD/ATi driver leftovers.
 
I definitely want to avoid headaches, yes you can normally fix them but it's no fun while things are not working as you expect and trawling through forum posts to find the fix from the fact and fiction that is shown.

Looks like no reboot is the best option for this.
 
harmony said:
I would do the following:

1) Uninstall Catalyst from control panel. When prompt for a reboot, decline.
2) Shutdown the machine and never enter Windows again before the ATI card is swapped out.
3) Install the 560 Ti into the rig.
4) Power on, and install Forceware.
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This. Done this myself recently and have had no performance issues, driver compatibility or stability issues at all.
 
Leezy said:
ide re-install windows if possible. Graphics drivers are a bitch to swap over, and most cleaners make more problems.
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That's a bit drastic isn't it?! I've never had to reinstall Windows to get graphics drivers working properly.

Just do as the others have suggested: full ATI uninstall, shutdown (don't restart), swap cards over, reboot, install nVidia drivers. :)
 
Download and save Nvidia drivers to desktop. (This is for convinience).
Enter windows in safe mode.
Run Driver sweeper and get rid of ATI drivers.
Turn PC off.
Install 560Ti.
Run Nvidia drivers.
 
OK parcel just arrived will wait to get home to check contents, slightly concerned at the moment as I ordered the OC version however the box does not seem to display any kind of OC livery or advertising?

Could be they keep the box the same for the vanilla and OC versions hopefully the contents will be OK, would like to know I have the correct version before installing and then checking the hardware settings.
 
Nvidia still using mini HDMI mean you need to get HDMI C-cable which is smaller than normal HDMI - all AMD Radeon using normal side of HDMI... I used Nvidia few years ago but changed back to AMD Radeon.
 
Windows 7 can support multiple different graphics cards installed and yet everyone seems to be living in the past about removing every single scrap of a previous driver. I mean seriously, you can have a Sandy Bridge with the onboard GPU installed, an AMD card with its drivers installed and then a Nvidia card installed with its drivers, all running fine and without issues.

Just uninstall your old card, put in the new card and install its drivers, job done.
 
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