XPPro won't let me switch to VGA drivers

[Aloke Prasad]

For the last two driver updates, I have tried to uninstall the ATI control
panel and CAT drivers. After uninstall, on reboot, the system (XPPro)
re-discovers the drivers and I am back to square one. The ATI drivers
show up again in the Control Panel|Add Remove software list and the process
continues ad-infinitum..

I tried to "roll back" the drivers but that says that there are no
previous drivers to roll back to.

I could use the Cat-uninstaller from ATI but would rather not. That
gets rid of Guide Plus and DVD decoder etc.

All I want to do is to switch to MS's VGA drivers. How do I do that?

After reboot, it finds VGA card as the drivers. So far so good. Then in 30
seconds or so, it pops up the "new hardware found" bubbles near the task bar
and in a few more seconds, I'm back with the ATI drivers.

I wonder if there is a setting somewhere in XPPro that will prevent
discovery of plug-and-play hardware without user approval ...

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

I gave up on the vicious circle and just installed over the top. It's
always seemed to work just fine.

If you have VIVO capability, follow ATI's advice and install the capture
part before the graphics drivers.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Me too. However, is there a way to avoid the PnP behavior and set the
drivers to VGA?