Hello,
I have a Radeon 9000 PCI graphics card. I installed the driver using the CD that came with it and now want to update the driver and install Catalyst Control Centre.
I downloaded the latest driver from: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
and ran the .exe file.
After clicking custom installation etc. and error popped up saying
Severe
INF error
Video Driver not found.
After pressing OK another error came saying
Severe
Setup was unable to complete the installation.
Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup.
Then I press OK and the installation closes.
Both error screenshots are attached.
My PC specs are as follows:
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.79GHz, 504 MB of RAM
I don't understand how to update driver but not install catalyst at the same time.
When I download driver from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/radeon-prer300-xp.aspx it comes with both display driver and Catalyst Control Centre 6.11.
Which means I cannot update or install Catalyst Control Centre.
Thanks Rob
UPDATE
I now do not have any display driver installed and have to use my standard inbuilt graphics. Same error occurs when trying to install drivers from CD and AMD website.
You can search for the latest drivers by simply updating it with windows and it search for and use the latest w/o installing catalyst. Catalyst is just an add on program for ati cards and doesn't have to be installed for the card to run.
in the device manager uninstall the video card
reboot tapping f8 and choose vga mode
when windows finishes rebooting
disable a/virus
install your drivers
reboot the computer
Hello,
When rebooting I press F8 and nothing happens.
Any more help would be great.
PS. I managed to install catalyst control centre but not luck with display driver.
UPDATE
I got the driver to somehow work and was able to use my graphics card for display.
Then I restarted my PC and the screen stayed blank so I moved the VGA Plug back to default motherboard graphics and then I could see that it was back to normal with no driver.
boot from the onboard
in the device manager disable the onboard
if the card is listed uninstall it
turn the computer off
install the card
change the video cable from the onboard to the card
reboot into the bios
check to see if you can disable the onboard in there and set it to detect agp or pcie first
save and exit the bios tapping f8 and choose vga mode
when windows finishes booting
disable a/virus
install your drivers for the card
reboot the computer
We have a few problems.
1. I do not understand how to install the card while the computer is turned off.
2. When I reboot with the cable in the graphics card I cannot see anything as the card is not installed.
3. To access BIOS you have to press DEL and my keyboard does not work until the computer is fully booted.
It seems I run into more problems as we go on.
Help would be appreciated
Thanks
I put the PC's boot priority thing to PCI Slot instead of Onboard and was able to access BIOS with the cable in PCI Card. I disabled Onboard and all the rest and then exit and saved.
When starting to reboot after exit and save I continuously tapped F8 but it still didn't do anything.
After trying to press F8 with no success the PC booted as normal except when I get to the Microsoft Windows XP loading page before you can see your desktop it finished loading and stays on a black screen.
I then swap the cable to Onboard which somehow works and the after swapping cable to Onboard I swap back to PCI card and it works except there are no drivers installed and I have to continuously swap to get it to work which is not an option everytime I boot.
well i have to tap f8 to get to safe mode so i will keep trying and post back with results
ok tapping or holding F8 i managed to get to the screen where it tells you to select safe mode or normal mode etc, but my arrow keys do not work to make a selection and the timer runs out and it boots normally
i also such off the power while running windows and then when i boot it automatically takes me to the same screen but i still can use arrow keys.
i managed to get into safe mode using ms config but when trying to install drivers using device manager and driver downloaded from website the same errors occurred from the first few posts
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>chkdsk /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
i also ran chkdsk /c out of curiosity and it started to scan.. but i canceled it just in case i wasnt meant to do it
i cannot find the psu from the information posted how many amps on the 12v line
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