Problems with my ATI-drivers for my Hercules Graphical card

[Charles van Doornewaard]

Recently, I re-installed Windows XP on a new hard disk, followed by the
drivers for my Hercules Graphical Card. This card uses an ATI-Radeon Chip
(9500 series). I also installed all updates for Windows XP available up
until now.

However, I am now having problems with my ATI drivers. For every time I
re-boot the PC I keep on getting the following error message:

ATI's desktop manager is being unloaded because an ATI display driver is not
currently running.
If you have administrator privileges, click "Reset" to revert to the default
display settings. Select "Cancel" to close this window with no changes.
To permanently remove an installed ATI display driver, use the Add/Remove
Programs control panel.

I also recently have had difficulties with my flight simulator 2004
programme, as my system freezes as soon as I have loaded a new "flight" file
(*.STN). I cannot escape from the impression that my graphical card is mal
functioning due to the inactivity opf the ATI driver.

But what causes the ATI driver to become inactive? I even re-installed the
drivers for the graphical card but the error message mentioned above keeps
on returning on reboot.

Can anybody tell me what the problem is and how the problem has to be
solved?

Many thanks in advance.

Charles J. van Doornewaard
Amsterdam - The Netherlands.

 

[ElJerid]

Recently, I re-installed Windows XP on a new hard disk, followed by the
drivers for my Hercules Graphical Card. This card uses an ATI-Radeon Chip
(9500 series). I also installed all updates for Windows XP available up
until now.

However, I am now having problems with my ATI drivers. For every time I
re-boot the PC I keep on getting the following error message:

ATI's desktop manager is being unloaded because an ATI display driver is
not currently running.
If you have administrator privileges, click "Reset" to revert to the
default display settings. Select "Cancel" to close this window with no
changes.
To permanently remove an installed ATI display driver, use the Add/Remove
Programs control panel.

I also recently have had difficulties with my flight simulator 2004
programme, as my system freezes as soon as I have loaded a new "flight"
file (*.STN). I cannot escape from the impression that my graphical card
is mal functioning due to the inactivity opf the ATI driver.

But what causes the ATI driver to become inactive? I even re-installed the
drivers for the graphical card but the error message mentioned above keeps
on returning on reboot.

Can anybody tell me what the problem is and how the problem has to be
solved?

Many thanks in advance.

Charles J. van Doornewaard
Amsterdam - The Netherlands.

In Add/Remove Programs, deinstall all ATI software, then in Device Manager,
remove ALL display adapters.
Restart your system. Windows will detect the VGA card and ask for a driver.
Install the DEFAULT Windows driver. When finished, install the latest ATI
Catalyst software (you can download it from ATI's site) for Win 2000. This
will replace the standard drivers by the ATI drivers. Check if it's ok in
the advanced display properties, where you should now find the ATI tabs.

Now

 

[Charles van Doornewaard]

Thank you very much. I followed your advice and got rid of this error
message. And what's more...Everythins has now been properly installed and
Flight Simulator is now working again.

Thanks.