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Re: Though Shalt Not Update Driver, thus spoke winblows.
« on: September 11, 2003, 08:08:47 AM »
My solution would be to just go to ATI's Website. Download the drivers off their site (screw using the Device Manager unless you know how to choose "ADVANCED"  and set your own location for the install and ignore any microsoft warnings about the files not passing their inspection..

Solution One:
The easiest solution is forget your install cd go to the website, install the drivers (ATI usually uses the standard windows installer) then reboot and have it work..

Your CD is probably older than what is up on ATI's site anyway..

What windows is getting confused about is the path to the drivers.. You have to choose advanced and that you know the location of the drivers.  What the select path thing then does is go out and look for a .INF file that is in the same folder tree as the actually driver and uses that .INF file to install the driver (ala magic)..

What you are probably doing when you "update driver" is pointing it to look at the CD but not to the folder where the .INF file is to the machine where to find the driver and go from there..

Solution Two:
A simple solution to your cd problem is click "update driver" clicked advanced so you can browse for a folder, then browse to wherever those .INF files are and hit okay and next for them to load..

if you browse the ati CD or did a "search" of the CD looking for *.INF I bet you'd find the folder path to where you need to point the device manager "update driver" button needs to look to install everything just fine and dandy..


Next: go to support.microsoft.com and look up ".INF" files, it will explain what these magic buggers do for you to eliminate the confusion...

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Re: Though Shalt Not Update Driver, thus spoke winblows.
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2003, 08:11:14 AM »
Your installation problem is no worse that an Amiga Installer script that is written badly..

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Re: Though Shalt Not Update Driver, thus spoke winblows.
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2003, 09:11:24 AM »
I myself am a proud owner of an eVGA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra.. The card just rocks and I love the auto driver updating and very good tech support website presence eVGA offers..

The other thing I like about this card is it's fully directx 9 compliant and offers all current pixel and vertex shader support that's standard with Dx9..

That means some really kick ass cinematic 3d fx.. I like ATI but I think nVidia just outclasses them with driver support and system integration support. I was a big ATI fan and still have their TV card in my machine, it interoperates fine with the 5900 card.

I also never have to "UNINSTALL" a video driver (at least not so far)..

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