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Thread ID: 43661	2004-03-22 23:39:00	Radeon 9600se and XP problem	fatboy (5431)	Press F1

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224416	2004-03-22 23:39:00	I bought a new Radeon 9600se the other day. Installed it in the slot where my old video card was and loaded the drivers. After loaded the drivers the card seemed to be working fine. I could change the display options etc. I then rebooted. During the XP startup phase it reboots itself. I need to start up in safe mode, uninstall the drivers and reboot, load the drivers again. I have a dell dimension 4300, 1.6MHz, 512Mb ram and upgraded the BIOS. I have also downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the ATI site, obviously with no luck. The card seems to work ok but the reboot stuffs everything up. Any ideas?	fatboy (5431)
224417	2004-03-23 00:41:00	Did you uninstall the old drivers completely first? Essential for a replacement video card. Its possible that vestiges of the old ones remain and are being invoked at boot-up.	godfather (25)
224418	2004-03-23 00:58:00	No, did not uninstall the old drivers. When I installed the card and XP recognised that there was a new video card, I went through the XP wizard process which installed the new drivers.	fatboy (5431)
224419	2004-03-23 03:35:00	If you have gonr from an nvidia to an ati then the most impotent thing you need to do is not only unistall the old drivers but to also wipe all left over traces of them from your machine. If it was me i would format the sucka.	metla (154)
224420	2004-03-23 23:17:00	I formatted and reinstalled XP. That seems to have worked a treat. But still not an ideal solution. I didn't know adding a video card was so stressfull.	fatboy (5431)
224421	2004-03-24 00:05:00	it usually isn't such a big deal. normally just uninstall old drivers (from add/remove) swap cards, install new drivers. sometimes you can get clashes between bits left over from the old drivers.	tweak'e (174)
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