Weird Radeon Driver issue

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Hi all; I've had this problem for some time, but just now noticed that it appears to be related to my Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO card. The problem is that every time I boot up, my rig "finds new hardware." Well, I haven't installed new hardware for months and months, so obviously it doesn't know what it's doing. Does anyone know what might be up? I make it search for new drivers, but it can't find any. :(

Here's a screenshot of the device manager page:

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Remove both from the Device Manager. Reboot.
Once you get back it will find new hardware. Just keep clicking cancel.

After it's finished that part go back into Device manager and click the properties for that card and click reinstall drivers. Use the drivers from whatever CD you got or from the ATI site. Then reboot.

[Fireblade]

yep... that advice sounds good t' me ^7 ;)

The only thing I'd add Spec'... would be t' make sure you're using the most up-to-date drivers for whatever card it is you're using (e.g. 8500 etc). Use ATI's 'Driver Search' (http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html) page and select the appropriate card and OS :thumbsup:

Quite why this would happen outta the blue I don't know, but if ye follow ^7's advice, ye'll hopefully get it sorted out ;)

Let us know how ye get on, won't ya :)

[speculative]

Hmm... Pretty sure I had this through several re-installs of the card and also through about 5 driver updates (even on my old KT7R mobo before the switch to this KX7-333) but, I will give that a try. Thanks! :)

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[Bursar]

Does your card have any extra features such as a TV tuner? If so, it might be that part of the card that's complaining.

You could always try booting into safe mode, removing the drivers, and then booting normally and re-install the drivers.

After that I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.

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Gave it one more shot, and that cleared it up. Perhaps it was something left over from a previous driver version install that hadn't gotten cleared out previously? Anyways, I goofed and instead of reinstalling the drivers I uninstall the graphics card and then had to reinstall it w/the Catalyst 2.4 drivers for Radeon/WinXP. That solved it straight though, no more probs. Thanks for the tips. :)

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