I've just finished a repair install on my hard drive on my main PC. It's using a video driver called "vgasave" and this seems to clash with the ATI drivers for my Radeon 9200 video card.

I can't find any way of turning this driver off and it's really frustrating me at the mo. I can load all the drivers on, then after a restart it disables the ATI drivers again and goes back to the VGA driver

Anyone had this problem before?

 

hva you tried to reinstall the ati drivers?


or even better

have you updated the computer with all the updates from windows update?

 

yep its completely updated and I've just installed all the drivers but I can guarantee as soon as I restart it will revert to the VGA drivers again

 

is this a standard xp driver or did you install it after doing an update?

if its an update then you can roll back to before you installed the updates and then when you go to download them on the microsoft website click on "custom install" and go through the updates and see if you can find the driver, once you've deselected it it will never try and download it again.

but i am sure theres a way of uninstalling the driver through device manager??

 

nope no way of uninstalling it but you can stop it, I stopped it yesterday, restarted and had just a blank screen

The reason this all happened is I did a repair install to my HD after something went wrong with the system files...

Anyways I think my only option is to reformat the drive and reload XP on. I've had a good look through the net and no-one seems to have a solution for this. Good old Microsoft

 

ok

lets uinstall it mate

right click on "my computer"--->manage---->device manager(or something like that)

then find graphic card dobble click on it

then go the drivers on the top of the window that pops up.

then

its 3 choices

updatedriver

uinstall driver

or roll back to previous drivers

try the update first

then uinstall if that does not work and then install the ati one

if thats not working roll driver back

pm or ask here if you did not understand it














lol, my laptop drivers are old.. think i have to update

nb. i have a Norwegian version, havent used the English version for ages... but the buttons is on the same place

 

Dammit I've done a re-install now, I should have checked back

I'm sure I tried what you described above in a roundabout way but it still wouldn't work.

Oh well we'll see what happens with the reinstall.

I've tracked the fault down to the new stick of 1gb of memory, looks like it fried my system files