- HELP All-In-Wonder 9000 install problem

[Air Force Jayhawk]

HELP I am leaving town Saturday and really want to record a couple of
gamers over the holidays and can't get this to work. I have seen a
lot of traffic on this subject, but no one elses fixes seem to work.
The only success I have read about was to upgrade to XP sp1 and then
try with catalyst 3.8. I have no idea what version is on my disk
(probably 3.8) and I already have SP1 installed...so that isn't the
fix.

Below is the text of an email I sent to other groups (before I
discovered this one...)
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I just bought an ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 and am having serious problems
getting it to install. ATI tech support was no help...they seem
willing to just let me take it back.

Anyway, the install of the drivers (Catalyst keeps failing with the
message telling me to first "try to setup your display with a standard
VGA driver before running setup."

In Win98, I vaguely remember being able to pick from a list that
included a basic adapter. XP doesn't seem to let me...it just gloms
onto the 9000 series drivers and won't offer any other options. Yet
none of the 9000 drivers will install without errors.

Have tried uninstalling and not rebooting, uninstalling and rebooting,
sometimes leeting XP try to find the drivers, and sometimes forcing a
stop. In all cases, the install aborts.

Any clue on how to install the basic, windows-supplied VGA driver?
Anyone know what compressed file (or even what it is called) it is in
on the XP disk? I suppose I can simply extract it and then point to
it when it asks for a driver...

Need soon as I am leaving town Saturday and either need it running or
am taking it back. Shame, 'cuz the PVR features looked awesome...

AFJ

 

[Alan P. Biddle]

Air,

I have had the same problem on some machines, and some operating
systems. (Sometimes it works perfectly) When this happens, I go to
the My Computer (System Properties)|Hardware|Device Manager, and then
right click on the displays, and then the Update Driver tab. One
choice is from a specific location. Browse to the location where the
driver update program unpacked the driver. What you are looking for
is at the bottom of the tree of folders created. To make things even
weirder, sometimes you can't see that folder in the browser! Just the
parent directory. Just type in the same, and it should update. I
have used this work around for both WIN98SE and WINXP. It has always
worked, and I have not had any trouble with the display afterwards.

Good Luck,

Alan

 

[Air Force Jayhawk]

Tried that multiple times from multiple directions. All failed. Ah
well, returned the card tonight, bought a pinnacle instead. Cheaper,
less features, but since it doesn't include the video card less
complex. We'll see.

AFJ