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Saphire 9600 Pro FB Edition
I have just received Saphire 9600 Pro FB Edition card. I have an existing Nvidia GForce 3 card installed. What is the best way to uninstall the Nvidia card and install the new ATI card and which driver should I use the ones that came from saphire or the latest 3.8 ATI drivers.
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Bolton Gate wrote:
I have just received Saphire 9600 Pro FB Edition card. I have an existing Nvidia GForce 3 card installed. What is the best way to uninstall the Nvidia card and install the new ATI card and which driver should I use the ones that came from saphire or the latest 3.8 ATI drivers. First of all, open Control Panel - Add and Remove Programs uninstall everythig that has Nvidia in its name. There are also third-pary programs to wipe out the rest of Nvidia (and other) drivers from your system. E.g., Driver Cleaner (http://www.driverheaven.net). As far as I know, Sapphire uses original Ati's drivers. My Radeon 9000Pro works great with v.3.8 and 3.7, although I had problems with video-in in v.3.6. And in v.3.8 they've added tv-out overscan support by default (no fiddling with the registry needed any more). Best wishes, Piotr |
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Thanks for your advice.
I installed it last night and unfortunately the Cat drivers and control panel I down loaded from ATI was corrupted so I was unable to unzip and install version 3.8 and had to rely on the version 3.6 that came with the card. When I upgrade to newer versions do I just double click the file and let it remove and reinstall or should I remove in the control panel first and manually remove ATI drivers and control panel. the Nvidia drivers just installed over the top. Bryan "Uncle Pete" wrote in message ... Bolton Gate wrote: I have just received Saphire 9600 Pro FB Edition card. I have an existing Nvidia GForce 3 card installed. What is the best way to uninstall the Nvidia card and install the new ATI card and which driver should I use the ones that came from saphire or the latest 3.8 ATI drivers. First of all, open Control Panel - Add and Remove Programs uninstall everythig that has Nvidia in its name. There are also third-pary programs to wipe out the rest of Nvidia (and other) drivers from your system. E.g., Driver Cleaner (http://www.driverheaven.net). As far as I know, Sapphire uses original Ati's drivers. My Radeon 9000Pro works great with v.3.8 and 3.7, although I had problems with video-in in v.3.6. And in v.3.8 they've added tv-out overscan support by default (no fiddling with the registry needed any more). Best wishes, Piotr |
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You can do it either way, but you increase the odds of causing yourself
trouble by installing new drivers over old ones. Sometimes files with the same name or files that are in use don't get overwritten and you wind up with a mixed set. Safest thing to do is use the add-remove CP to uninstall everything with ATI in the title. Reboot, and don't let Windows install the drivers for you. Cancel out to the desktop and run the ATI install applets, drivers first, control panel second. "Bolton Gate" wrote in message ... Thanks for your advice. I installed it last night and unfortunately the Cat drivers and control panel I down loaded from ATI was corrupted so I was unable to unzip and install version 3.8 and had to rely on the version 3.6 that came with the card. When I upgrade to newer versions do I just double click the file and let it remove and reinstall or should I remove in the control panel first and manually remove ATI drivers and control panel. the Nvidia drivers just installed over the top. Bryan "Uncle Pete" wrote in message ... Bolton Gate wrote: I have just received Saphire 9600 Pro FB Edition card. I have an existing Nvidia GForce 3 card installed. What is the best way to uninstall the Nvidia card and install the new ATI card and which driver should I use the ones that came from saphire or the latest 3.8 ATI drivers. First of all, open Control Panel - Add and Remove Programs uninstall everythig that has Nvidia in its name. There are also third-pary programs to wipe out the rest of Nvidia (and other) drivers from your system. E.g., Driver Cleaner (http://www.driverheaven.net). As far as I know, Sapphire uses original Ati's drivers. My Radeon 9000Pro works great with v.3.8 and 3.7, although I had problems with video-in in v.3.6. And in v.3.8 they've added tv-out overscan support by default (no fiddling with the registry needed any more). Best wishes, Piotr |
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