CAT 3.8 installation?

[Lutrell]

The instructions say for installing new Catalyst drivers with WXP to first
"Uninstall the ATI Display Driver". Does that mean go to the Add or Remove
menu of Control Panel and only select "ATI Display Drivers" for removal (and
not ATI Control Panel and ATI Decoder 2.1...) ?
I did that last time and when I rebooted the desktop was all scrambled. Took
me several tries to get into Safe mode/VGA upon rebooting to fix it (maybe
because my USB keyboard was not always recognized during bootup?).
Do I have to uninstall the old drivers or is there another uninstall option?

Thanks,
Lutrell

 

[Tim Miser]

Just install the new drivers over the top of the old drivers. Works better
that way.

-Tim

 

[patrickp]

The instructions say for installing new Catalyst drivers with WXP to first
"Uninstall the ATI Display Driver". Does that mean go to the Add or Remove
menu of Control Panel and only select "ATI Display Drivers" for removal (and
not ATI Control Panel and ATI Decoder 2.1...) ?
I did that last time and when I rebooted the desktop was all scrambled. Took
me several tries to get into Safe mode/VGA upon rebooting to fix it (maybe
because my USB keyboard was not always recognized during bootup?).
Do I have to uninstall the old drivers or is there another uninstall option?

Thanks,
Lutrell

Depends what you mean by scrambled, Lutrell - the standard Windows driver
runs in 640 x 480 resolution and 256 colours. If what you're seeing is an
enlarged part of your desktop very poorly rendered and your icons large and
differently arranged, that's normal. It should all go right again when you
install the new display driver and reset your resolution and colour depth.

But, generally speaking, yes, you should have the standard Windows driver
running to install a new display driver and uninstalling theold one should
set this when you reboot.

HTH patrickp

 

[Lutrell]

Depends what you mean by scrambled, Lutrell - the standard Windows driver
runs in 640 x 480 resolution and 256 colours. If what you're seeing is an
enlarged part of your desktop very poorly rendered and your icons large and
differently arranged, that's normal. It should all go right again when you
install the new display driver and reset your resolution and colour depth.

But, generally speaking, yes, you should have the standard Windows driver
running to install a new display driver and uninstalling theold one should
set this when you reboot.

HTH patrickp

By scrambled, I mean a complete snow of different pixels colors. I could
barely make out something moving on the screen when I moved the cursor. I
did get a normal low res screen on bootup with the Windows logo, but as
soon as it went to the desktop it was scrambled. Something went wrong when I
uninstalled the drivers. Maybe if I set the resolution low and then
uninstall the drivers?
I had a hell of a time trying to hit the F8 key at just the right time to
run safe mode and it took me a very long time (sometimes it would not let
me skip the disk scan and I had to wait through that) and several reboot
tries.

Lutrell