driver install

[Alex Boling]

Hi I am new here and have a problem. I have a x700 128m pci-express. my
card was working fine, I got a lcd widescreen monitor for my birthday and
there was a setting in the control panel that a friend told me I had to
check to make it work right with games, center tiles or something like that.
well anyway my version of the drivers did not have this option, so I decided
to install the latest and the greatest evolution of the ATI drivers,
followed instructions uninstalled the old ones ( that worked ) and removed
all ati stuff from the computer and reinstalled the new drivers to find a
severe incorrect inf, cannot find the proper hardware error, needless to say
I cannot at this time install any freaking drivers, even every old driver on
the ATI site comes up with the same heart wrenching error. I am not a wimp
to run to the newsgroup without any effort, I have----

reformatted
installed, removed and reinstalled dot.net 2.0
tried every driver on the ati site ( for the x700) 7.1 to 6.4 I think
tried driver and bundle including contol panel
removed every card from my system except the x700, even disabled the onboard
NIC
my mobo has onboard video, but it has been disabled since day one and the
x700 has worked for two years before this
after the software installed and failed went to device manager and tried to
manually install driver, pointing to the ATI folder where the INF was
considered shooting my computer several times
have screamed several times
have refined my use of four letter words

still I am in standard vga driver mode, not really enjoying my new monitor,
havent' played a game in a while, need some help


if it will help

intel pent 4 extreme edition 3.40
intel d925xcv board latest bios 28 nov 2006
512 of ddr2 mem (corsair)
old sb live audio
card to add usb ports
2 west dig hard drives
dvd burner
oh yeah this is crucial
1.44 floppy drive

and of course

ATI X700 128 PCI-Express


please please any help would be coolest

reply here or

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Bill]

<snip>

Have you tried .NET 3.0? Just a WAG.

Bill

 

[KCB]

Hi I am new here and have a problem. I have a x700 128m pci-express.
my
card was working fine, I got a lcd widescreen monitor for my birthday
and
there was a setting in the control panel that a friend told me I had
to
check to make it work right with games, center tiles or something like
that.
well anyway my version of the drivers did not have this option, so I
decided
to install the latest and the greatest evolution of the ATI drivers,
followed instructions uninstalled the old ones ( that worked ) and
removed
all ati stuff from the computer and reinstalled the new drivers to
find a
severe incorrect inf, cannot find the proper hardware error, needless
to say
I cannot at this time install any freaking drivers, even every old
driver on
the ATI site comes up with the same heart wrenching error. I am not a
wimp
to run to the newsgroup without any effort, I have----

reformatted
installed, removed and reinstalled dot.net 2.0
tried every driver on the ati site ( for the x700) 7.1 to 6.4 I think
tried driver and bundle including contol panel
removed every card from my system except the x700, even disabled the
onboard
NIC
my mobo has onboard video, but it has been disabled since day one and
the
x700 has worked for two years before this
after the software installed and failed went to device manager and
tried to
manually install driver, pointing to the ATI folder where the INF was
considered shooting my computer several times
have screamed several times
have refined my use of four letter words

still I am in standard vga driver mode, not really enjoying my new
monitor,
havent' played a game in a while, need some help


if it will help

intel pent 4 extreme edition 3.40
intel d925xcv board latest bios 28 nov 2006
512 of ddr2 mem (corsair)
old sb live audio
card to add usb ports
2 west dig hard drives
dvd burner
oh yeah this is crucial
1.44 floppy drive

and of course

ATI X700 128 PCI-Express

Maybe I'm being Captain Obvious, but have you installed the drivers for
your monitor?

 

[Roger]

Hi I am new here and have a problem. I have a x700 128m pci-express. my
card was working fine, I got a lcd widescreen monitor for my birthday and
there was a setting in the control panel that a friend told me I had to
check to make it work right with games, center tiles or something like that.
well anyway my version of the drivers did not have this option, so I decided
to install the latest and the greatest evolution of the ATI drivers,
followed instructions uninstalled the old ones ( that worked ) and removed
all ati stuff from the computer and reinstalled the new drivers to find a
severe incorrect inf, cannot find the proper hardware error, needless to say
I cannot at this time install any freaking drivers, even every old driver on
the ATI site comes up with the same heart wrenching error. I am not a wimp
to run to the newsgroup without any effort, I have----

reformatted
installed, removed and reinstalled dot.net 2.0
tried every driver on the ati site ( for the x700) 7.1 to 6.4 I think

Assuming you are using XP:
Too late now as you have already reformatted, but the next time you
find things not working, try:
Restore points. Go back to the one previous to the changes made and
that should put you back where you were prior to the change. It may
or may not help, but is certainly worth trying.

Next: rebooting to "last known good installation" if the restore
point doesn't work. . It's saved me from having to reload everything
several times. This should take you back to the previous
configuration.

Also a good back up image *may* work wonders when all else fails.
I've had about a 50% success rate on image backups.

And one final point that *may* save you from having to completely
reinstall everything. *REPAIR* and I don't mean from the repair
console., but repair from the install point. When you start and
install the first batch of prompts will contain the prompt for the
repair console. Say no and wait until it wants to install. Tell it
yes. It should find the original install and ask if you want to repair
it or do a full install. Try the repair. You will have to reinstall
all the updates and most likely drivers, but it beats having to
install all the applications...usually.

Between the four I've had pretty good luck. OTOH it seems like there's
one more that should be here for system recovery.



However at this point I'd get out the original driver disks. Moboard
and video card. Make sure all the new video drivers are in a single
directory.

tried driver and bundle including contol panel
removed every card from my system except the x700, even disabled the onboard
NIC
my mobo has onboard video, but it has been disabled since day one and the
x700 has worked for two years before this
after the software installed and failed went to device manager and tried to
manually install driver, pointing to the ATI folder where the INF was
considered shooting my computer several times
have screamed several times

No guarantee for what follows:
IF you have all the downloaded drivers for the video card and mo board
and the BIOS is up-to-date. Flashing BIOS can be a truely traumatic
event.

You can *try* going into the "Device manager". Make sure there are no
yellow question marks. If there are, they may be a guide to your
problem. If there is a yellow question nark, right click on it and
select (reinstall driver). If this doesn't work try removing all the
offending hardware from within Device Manager. Then tell it to detect
hardware, or just reboot and let it do the detection then. When it
comes to the video card direct it to the directory containing all of
the downloaded drivers. If it doesn't find a driver, have it check the
mother board drivers. The driver it needs should be in one place or
the other. Don't forget the disk with the original video card drivers
either. There may be something back there it needs.

As I said, these are suggestions and come with no guarantee. Any time
you are in there at this level there are risks, but I'd guess at this
point there are the lesser of two evils.

Good Luck,

have refined my use of four letter words

still I am in standard vga driver mode, not really enjoying my new monitor,
havent' played a game in a while, need some help


if it will help

intel pent 4 extreme edition 3.40
intel d925xcv board latest bios 28 nov 2006
512 of ddr2 mem (corsair)
old sb live audio
card to add usb ports
2 west dig hard drives
dvd burner
oh yeah this is crucial
1.44 floppy drive

and of course

ATI X700 128 PCI-Express


please please any help would be coolest

reply here or

(e-mail address removed)

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com