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Changing Cards With Same Drivers
I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with
my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB |
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"JB" wrote in message ... I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB I switched my 8800GT to a GTX 260 without doing anything other than pulling one and sticking the other in the slot. This was 4 months back or so on the Windows 7 Beta. I've done same thing with a 9600GT and 8800GTX on another box with XP SP3. I've done the same thing while back with a 9800 Pro and an X1650 Pro AGP card. Windows simply recognized the device and kept running normally on startup. Now whether or not that's a recommended procedure is another thing. There's plenty of times I've unistalled and reinstalled the driver when switching cards but usually if the card is of the same family and the drivers are the same for both it's easier and faster to yank and switch. |
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JB wrote:
I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB You shouldn't have any problems. When I purchased a 3870 last year it failed after about a week and I had to send the card in and wait for a replacement. In the meantime I just plugged in a 2600 and everything worked fine. When the replacement card came I just plugged it in and haven't touched anything since. |
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In message "JB"
was claimed to have wrote: I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? In short, no. Windows will automatically detect and use the correct driver, that part isn't a problem. When you're changing manufacturers or switching to cards that need different drivers from the same manufacturer then you need to uninstall and reinstall to get the new driver, but in this case, both ATI and nVidia have a fairly unified platform, so you can just let Windows load the appropriate drivers for the hardware you actually have installed at any given moment. |
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"Augustus" wrote in message news:_5iYl.31585$PH1.24509@edtnps82... "JB" wrote in message ... I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB "I switched my 8800GT to a GTX 260 without doing anything other than pulling one and sticking the other in the slot. This was 4 months back or so on the Windows 7 Beta. I've done same thing with a 9600GT and 8800GTX on another box with XP SP3. I've done the same thing while back with a 9800 Pro and an X1650 Pro AGP card. Windows simply recognized the device and kept running normally on startup. Now whether or not that's a recommended procedure is another thing. There's plenty of times I've unistalled and reinstalled the driver when switching cards but usually if the card is of the same family and the drivers are the same for both it's easier and faster to yank and switch. " Thanks a lot for that info. I'll give it a try. JB |
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"Michael W. Ryder" wrote in message ... JB wrote: I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB "You shouldn't have any problems. When I purchased a 3870 last year it failed after about a week and I had to send the card in and wait for a replacement. In the meantime I just plugged in a 2600 and everything worked fine. When the replacement card came I just plugged it in and haven't touched anything since". Thank you, Michael. Will try it in the morning JB |
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"DevilsPGD" wrote in message ... In message "JB" was claimed to have wrote: I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? "In short, no. Windows will automatically detect and use the correct driver, that part isn't a problem. When you're changing manufacturers or switching to cards that need different drivers from the same manufacturer then you need to uninstall and reinstall to get the new driver, but in this case, both ATI and nVidia have a fairly unified platform, so you can just let Windows load the appropriate drivers for the hardware you actually have installed at any given moment". Thanks for your reply. Both cards are ATI, and use the same driver suit. JB |
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It depends... The HD2600 AGP was an ATi reference design, the HD3850 AGP was
not. Not all drivers advertised to work on 3000 series cards will work with the HD3850 AGP. I suggest you download and extract this driver to a folder on your hard disk before proceeding with the swap. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...AGPHotfix.aspx -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "JB" wrote in message ... I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB |
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Thanks for the information. I had the 9.4 hotfix, now I've got the 9.5.
Thanks JB "First of One" wrote in message ... It depends... The HD2600 AGP was an ATi reference design, the HD3850 AGP was not. Not all drivers advertised to work on 3000 series cards will work with the HD3850 AGP. I suggest you download and extract this driver to a folder on your hard disk before proceeding with the swap. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...AGPHotfix.aspx -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "JB" wrote in message ... I now have installed ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP, but want to replace it with my HD 3850 AGP. They both have the same Catalyst driver suite for the 2000 series and 3000 series. Would I still need to uninstall the drivers before switching cards? JB |
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