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by wblarkin

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I have recently added an ATI Video Board to my NT machine. (NT4.0 SP6). After loading the drivers for the machine and rebooting, I get an error message now after logging In "ERROR LOADING DRIVER" in order to clear this message I have to end task onit. I did notice that the process which was running is RUNDLL32.EXE, I can also end task on this and the error will go away. Strangely enough.. the colors seem to be correct, HOWEVER, I can no longer get to the display properties. When I attempt to I get the same error message "ERROR LOADING DRIVER". I have attempted to uninstall the drivers via the "add or remove programs" in the control panel, and stopping the device (in devices - control panel). I have also tried the Safe mode startup -this also did not work.

Question. Is there any way to get back to a standard VGA driver so I can attempt to install a newer or update ATI driver (without having to reload the OS)?? OR How can I get to the display properties without getting this error message "ERROR LOADING DRIVER".

Thanks for any and all help in advance.

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by dmiles

I would suggest that you go ahead and reload the operating system,because the files are now corrupt and you need to do a fresh install.

by parbo

There is a way to get rid of the drivers. it requires you to edit the registry and involves many keys: back up registry before doing this:
regedit:
HKLM/hardware/device map/video=> remove the specific driver folder (should say something like ATI)dont remove VGA keys or folders
HKLM/reourcemap/video => remove specific drv
HKLM/system/ccs/control/class => look for the reference of "vid" in the keys and remove those subfolders
regedt32:
HKLM/system/ccs/enum/root=> find legacy devieces with"class=display" and remove. again dont remove anything that says VGA it should have a specific ATI reference in the key/folder regedit works with security so you might have to disable it from the file menu. Hope this works, due to limited space I cant describe in full detail.

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