ATI Display Driver Went Haywire!

**Dravin** · July 26th, 2003, 08:02 PM

I noticed there was a new ATI driver set out, so I downloaded it. But after it installed (restart, adjustment of display settings...ect.), the display seemed to hang, all menues and folders take an eternity to scroll through, and my god it felt like Win95 all over again with the Start menu take a minute to open. One attempt to open a game left me with a "No 3D Devices Found!" atert box.

I attempted a Driver Rollback, and also a reinstall of the previous driver pack. Same results. Not sure what to do from here. Any help would be great. Thanx

WinXP Pro SP1
Asus A7N8X-Delux N-Force2
AMD 2400 XP
1.25GB DDR
80GB WD 7200rpm HD
ATI 9000 Pro 128mb DDR

**NooNoo** · July 27th, 2003, 08:28 AM

OUCH! what driver set did you download? Which drivers were you using originally?

Try using safemode - uninstall the ATI card and without rebooting, run the setup for the driver version that did work for you.

**Dravin** · July 27th, 2003, 01:12 PM

I always was curious why they chose the name "Safe Mode". If your in Safe Mode, something isnt safe to begin with.

I will give that a try though. As the Drivers go, it was the Catalyst 3.6 version that this all began with. Not sure what version was previous to 3.6, not sure if I was useing that, or a release previous to that. I still have it on file, just had renamed it when I downloaded it, so not sure on the version #.

I'll post back as soon as I know more.

Thanks

**techmonkey13** · July 27th, 2003, 07:30 PM

I had a similar experience and ended up reinstalling everything from scratch. I figured it was quicker then spending a couple of day uninstalling and reinstalling.

**deepblu** · July 28th, 2003, 09:30 AM

I have been having issues with the 3.6 WHQL Radeon driver as well.

I am running ATI 9700 Pro 128 on Intel 850E chipset.

Rolled back and all is well again.

New drivers are not necessarily better drivers huh?