Trying to update to latest ATI Catalyst drivers for Radeon card-get error message??

[Joe Donaldson]

I have been able to download an update my Radeon 9500 AGP ard (on Win
2k sp4) with no problem. But their latest drivers
wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-991-040224m-013831c.exe on their site gives me an
error sayins it cannot unpack the file and that the file os corrupted.
I then tried the smaller singl updates and received same error. Sent
error to ATI but no response yet.

Any ideas? I have nothing running in Systray except speaker icon. No
strange services running and no viruses. Checked all that beforehand.

Thanks for any input.

Sincerely
Joe

 

[NDF]

Have you cleaned out all your temporary files folders ?

Have you deleted the folder that is created ,
c:\ati\support\<driver-version>

 

[Joe Donaldson]

Have not done the above but did run special uninstall utility from ATI
that was a separate download. Next time I Ghost my C drive I will give
it another shot. Shoddy installation packaging if you ask me.
But then again perhaps I am one of the few getting this error. Also
never got it before and had the card about 9 months and updated 2
times.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Debug]

Have not done the above but did run special uninstall utility from ATI
that was a separate download. Next time I Ghost my C drive I will give
it another shot. Shoddy installation packaging if you ask me.
But then again perhaps I am one of the few getting this error. Also
never got it before and had the card about 9 months and updated 2
times.

Thanks,
Joe

Like he said, clean out the /windows/temp/ folder and try again.

 

[Ben Pope]

I have been able to download an update my Radeon 9500 AGP ard (on Win
2k sp4) with no problem. But their latest drivers
wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-991-040224m-013831c.exe on their site gives me an
error sayins it cannot unpack the file and that the file os corrupted.
I then tried the smaller singl updates and received same error. Sent
error to ATI but no response yet.

Any ideas? I have nothing running in Systray except speaker icon. No
strange services running and no viruses. Checked all that beforehand.

Seems strange, certainly sounds like a corrupt download. Works fine for
me - I downloaded about 2 days ago.

Ben

 

[patrickp]

Seems strange, certainly sounds like a corrupt download. Works fine for
me - I downloaded about 2 days ago.

Ben

Same here. Certainly sounds like a corrupted download. If the same
happened with the combined file and the separates, perhaps you should be
examining your connection. Do you get many downloads that give you
problems?

patrickp

 

[Joe Donaldson]

Never had a corrupted download before unless it was from a bogus site or something.
May try downloading again after cleaning out temp directories and such.
In the past I could update the Catalyst drivers without uninstalling the old ones.

Oh well.

Thanks so much.
Joe

 

[patrickp]

Never had a corrupted download before unless it was from a bogus site or something.
May try downloading again after cleaning out temp directories and such.
In the past I could update the Catalyst drivers without uninstalling the old ones.

Oh well.

Thanks so much.
Joe

"patrickp" <[email protected] - take five to email me> wrote in

You could also try deleting the ATI file on your C: drive, Joe. That's
where the files are unpacked to.

patrickp

 

[Joe Donaldson]

Thanks all. Cleaning Windows Temp directory did the trick.

Appreciate all your help
Joe.