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by jtfutbal

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brief history. did regular maintenance on a tower. cleaned it. the thing was filled with nothing but dust and webs. then i put it back together. started it up and all the hardware drivers were dumped.

Its official. I hate ATI. If you don't have the disk for you ATI video card you can forget getting the drivers. ATI has got with some companies and putting together Driver bundles. They advertise it as a free download. Thats all it is. You download the driverboot it runs and scans your hardware looking for anything ATI. It tells you what you are missing and then ask for a product key. I have an ATI video card that i ran in circles trying to find. The only way that i could get them from this ATI driverboot. which in my professional opinion is bs.

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by santeewelding

You do so deflate the greatest of expectations and exultations with the simplest and most disarming of the factual.

by oh smeg

I avoid the Smoke from Plycraft Welding rods. ;)

I used to observe the Fitter who loved those things and he was [b]Genuinely Scary.[/b] The one that got to me was when he fitted a Ducati Crank Shaft to a Lathe to cut a Thread on it. I didn't so much care that it was in a 21 Foot Bed Lathe for something 19 inches long it may have been a bit of overkill but it was handy at the time and not being used for other things so maybe it was acceptable.

The fact that the thing was complete with a Con Rod and he was spinning it way too fast was what worried me much more. :^0

What I did find interesting was him attempting to justify his actions when all he was doing was trying it that way to see what would happen. He then when finished resorted back to lots of Plycraft Smoke. :0

But on a more serious note here it sounds to me as if the OP instead of looking on AMD Site has just jumped on a General Drivers Site or several who want to get paid for hosting these drivers and suck people in by advertising the [b]Free[/b] Utility to find out what is actually installed int he system. After all it saves looking at the Hardware or running a Utility like Unknown Device Identifier.

Col

by jamesrl

At the ATI site, you can chose the bundle with the ATI Catalyst Control Centre (CCC) and the driver or just the driver alone. All you really need is the driver, unless you want to overclock, change the color calibration etc.

James

by maxwell edison

I've never had much a problem with any of them. What you say just doesn't make sense (in more than one way).

by jamesrl

First off cleaning the cards should not "dump" the drivers, which are software stored on the HD.

Secondly I don't kow where you get your wild theories, but I've owned 5 ATI cards in the last 20 years, installed many others. I've never seen a problem downloading the drivers from ATI, and I update the drivers regularly. On my current computer I've got two partitions, one Vista, one XP, so I download the drivers twice. Never have I had an issue where it failed to install, or asked for a product key.

I have tried to use a third party card maker's CD (that uses an ATI Chipset) with a card from another third party(using an ATI chipset)and they fail, because the OEM takes the ATI drivers and adds functionality, and for this reason they block cards that aren't theirs.

But the ATI drivers on the wesbite work with any card with an ATI chipset.

Have you tried uninstalling your existing drivers before installing the new ones?

James

by jtfutbal

I know that clean out a computer doen't dump the drivers, but it did. I agree with what you stated about using ATI cards in the past, i have used them to. It is an older computer. There was 3 of us looking for the driver and found nothing. I want to to was the card is a ATI Radon 9200 series.

by slayer_

Considering Drivers are software stored on your HDD, which is a device that cannot be cleaned without ruining it (don't ever open up your HDD).

ATI drivers install effortlessly for me, go to ATI's website, choose drivers.

Don't download drivers from any other website unless you absolutly have to.

by jtfutbal

All i did was take out all the PCI card, CD-Rom (there are 2), the floppy, the HDD and the power supply. there was dust and webs throughout the entire box. It was custom built and however put it together did a shady job in my opinion. The wires were everywhere and there was no room for air flow.

by jtfutbal

i have looked on the website and every time I clicked on the driver that i needed they wanted me to download the boot

by jamesrl

Yes that appears to be the only option.

Did you uninstall any previous versions of ATI drivers? This could be causing issues (it happends with nVidia too by the way).

James

by jtfutbal

The only drivers that I install are specific to that . Does that answer your question?

by jamesrl

Some installers have problems when installing over themselves or previous versions. Did you eliminate all ATI video drivers before installing the new one you downloaded?

James

by jamesrl

System, Hardware, Device Manager, display adapter, properties, driver tab does it show an ATI driver or not.

And when you control panel, add or Remove program, are there any ATI software installed?

James

by slayer_

On PCI cards, if you change the slot, Windows (Win95 anyways) doesn't always seem to keep the driver attached, it shows up as a different device, but you can almost always just tell it to update drivers, and it finds the correct previously installed one.

I used to have this happen often in my old PC with an ATI Xpert@Play card, the card would be removed a lot to be used to test other computers, but when I would put it back, I would often accidentally put it in the wrong slot.

by dfa19

How could you have possible made Downloading the ATI drivers this difficult, while it has changed as a little bit in the past 12 months the ATI site still has every driver you need, when you DL the Catalyst suite it will have the driver you need w/ the download, what its doing is downloading all of its legacy drivers basically plus some other ones and its one big suite, instead of them having to post each and every single driver by itself. Please if you really are an IT professional, it can not possible be that hard to accomplish this task. Just Breathe...and click on Forum surfers link and all should be well.

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