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| Thread ID: 47993 | 2004-08-11 08:37:00 | gigabyte radeon x800 pro problems | hwj2 (3398) | Press F1 |
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| 260435 | 2004-08-11 08:37:00 | hi guys, we installed a x800 pro onto a ASUS P4S533, has 512 DDR ram, Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor. We are running windows XP. software installation for XP is strange, any body been through this to help out. It keeps saying we have to install a Standard Driver first. What the hell does this mean? we installed direct X9 first then install, still didnt work, we cant install the drivers until we get over this hiccup HELP!!! |
hwj2 (3398) | ||
| 260436 | 2004-08-11 08:46:00 | Try installing a standard generic video (VGA or SVGA) driver for your card first - just use a basic Windows XP one - restart your computer, then try installing the x800 software. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 260437 | 2004-08-11 08:59:00 | can you recommend one or two? | hwj2 (3398) | ||
| 260438 | 2004-08-11 09:04:00 | > hi guys, > > we installed a x800 pro onto a ASUS P4S533, has 512 > DDR ram, Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor. We are running > windows XP. software installation for XP is strange, > any body been through this to help out. It keeps > saying we have to install a Standard Driver first. First you must realise that you are installing Hardware if you changed the video card you had before. First remove all drivers for the previous Video card you had. I guess that the previous video was on board or an AGP card like a MMX400 or whatever but as you have not said I don't know. What was the card you had before? I take it that the new card you have came with drivers on a CDRom disk? > What the hell does this mean? we installed direct X9 > first then install, still didnt work, we cant install > the drivers until we get over this hiccup > > HELP!!! Installing DirectX 9a b or c will not help until later. This is after you have your new card installed. You need to uninstall your previous video card drivers before you install the new card. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 260439 | 2004-08-11 09:07:00 | previous card was an 64meg mx440 or something like that, yes we do have the driver disk on a CD rom |
hwj2 (3398) | ||
| 260440 | 2004-08-11 09:41:00 | i recomend readin the software manual for ure new vga. | ferrite (4221) | ||
| 260441 | 2004-08-11 09:53:00 | > previous card was an 64meg mx440 or something like > that, > > yes we do have the driver disk on a CD rom So my suggestion is to insert the previous AGP card after removing the new AGP card. Go to Start, Control Panel, System, Device Manager, maybe hardware tab and remove the device for the video card. You can also think about downloading detonater destroyer from the Internet. This should remove all drivers from WinXP and the registry. Remove the old video card after removing all drivers. At the same time you can insert the driver disk you have and reboot. Hopefully you can then get a message that WinXP has found new hardware and wants the drivers. Tell the O/S where the CDRom disk is. I have two Optical drives and the CD writer is listed as W: The DVD writer is listed as V: I can't say that your CDRom drive just happens to be D: |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 260442 | 2004-08-11 11:01:00 | i replaced the agp card to the old one. I then went in and uninstalled teh drivers. I then placed the new card in. The "new Hardware detected" screen appeared and wanted to install the drivers. I then placed teh disk in and hoped for the best. But no, apparently an "error had occured". The book says: to install direct 9 first, it then states when the hardware is detected click do not install new hardware (XP doesnt even have this option). It then states, windows will then ask for the Windows CD (which xp does not do) and install the standard device driver. then I am supposed to go into the setup on the CD and install the x800 driver on the menu that pops up. However an error occurs when it tries to get into installation process- it says install a standard driver. This is just getting bizarre, why isnt it as easy as the what the manual tells us? |
hwj2 (3398) | ||
| 260443 | 2004-08-11 11:22:00 | because nvidia drivers dig their claws deep into the os and don't let go just by uninstalling them. | metla (154) | ||
| 260444 | 2004-08-11 11:26:00 | Driver Cleaner is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI and nVidia drivers. First you need to uninstall the drivers from the control panel than reboot and after that run the program. If you really want a good description of what steps you should do than you really need to read the readme file included in the zip file and installation as it contains a detailed description step by step. www.majorgeeks.com |
metla (154) | ||
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