I want to uninstall all my video drivers and install the latest ones. The problem is, Whenever I uninstall the drives and reboot my computer to install the newest ATI drivers, Windows automatically installs whatever ones it has for ATI. I can't install the drivers because the old drivers already exist. BTW I got my computer on Christmas from buy.com through http://www.dealrocker.com discount deal. Just wondering how can I stop Windows from automatically installing video drivers when I reboot my computer? I appreciate any assistance you experts can provide.
I had the same thing happen to me just two days ago with an ATI Radion 9250.
Sometimes Windows would automatically detect the card...Sometimes it wouldn't. The ATI installer asked me if I wanted to unistall the previous drivers upon intallation of the new one with the uninstall tool.
Try that, or remove the drivers from the database. Or just the whole data-base for video chipsets. You won't use them anyway.
Or try uninstalling and booting in safe mode.
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' Wrote:I had the same thing happen to me just two days ago with an ATI Radion 9250.
Sometimes Windows would automatically detect the card...Sometimes it wouldn't. The ATI installer asked me if I wanted to unistall the previous drivers upon intallation of the new one with the uninstall tool.
Try that, or remove the drivers from the database. Or just the whole data-base for video chipsets. You won't use them anyway.
Or try uninstalling and booting in safe mode.
You could check in the drivers which " inf " file is being used to load those drivers. Then go into C:\Windows\Inf and delete both that file and the " pnf " file carrying the same name. Delete those two only, no other ones! This will prevent Windows from recognizing that it has drivers for that hardware. Then uninstall the current drivers and reboot. Your videocard should no longer be recognized automatically and you should be able to install the ATI driverset.
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