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no ati drivers installed
At startup i get ATI control panel failed to initalize no ATI driver is installed. When I go to install drivers from ati cd that came with the computer it starts to set up then the screen goes bank and the monitor shuts off. If i try to go to device manager I have 2 yellow exclamation maks under display adapters. If i try and update drivers via cdrom i get C: windows/system32autoexec.nt message. The system file is not suitable for running ms-dos windows applications. Something definetely messed up but i'm lost. The monitor works fine on other computer, but when its on this computer the pages look fine but occ. wobbely blurry line on my monitor when i scroll down a page.
system: dim4600 512 ram, radeon 9250 windows xp sp2, norton2005
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Posted November 9th, 2005 23:00
Go to www.ati.com and download the latest drivers. Then, go into the device manager, under display adapters, right click the device listed and select uninstall. Allow the computer to remove the hardware and restart your computer. Upon boot, XP will recognize the hardware and will try to install default drivers. Windows will most likely not find the drivers, so you can cancel the default installation and install the drivers you just downloaded.If you still have trouble, go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools, and system restore and restore the computer to an earlier point. This should help clean up the mess and allow you to update the drivers if you desire. Let me know if you were able to fix the problem.314
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Posted November 10th, 2005 00:00
That error message means you need the 16-bit fix before you can load those ATI drivers. Go to Denny's site and download/run his little utility to fix this problem then try installing the drivers again.
http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/16bit_fix.htm
Ron
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Posted November 10th, 2005 22:00
OK i have tried all of the above recommendations and now no video adapters are showing in device manager at all. I am totally lost at this point
CoolGuy90
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Posted November 9th, 2005 23:00