ScAvenger001
August 17th, 2006, 05:52 AM
Here's my story:
Recently I tried to update the drivers for my video card (Radeon X1300). The installer threw an error: "This display driver is not compatible with the adapter(s) installed on your system." I thought that was odd, but I didn't really care because I was only updating for the hell of it anyway.
Today I restarted my computer because my antivirus was saying I ought to, and my video card seems to be acting as if it's a generic VGA device (no acceleration, it's calling itself "default monitor" in the display settings, all my games have stopped working, and right after the restart it had reset itself to 640x480). Argh.
Here's what I've tried:
*More restarting, including turning the computer off to cool down. No dice.
*Retrying the driver install. Same error, drivers won't install.
*Attempting to roll back to previous driver versions that I know worked. Now they're also showing the "not compatible" error and refusing to install.
*Pull out the video card and use the on-board Radeon Xpress 200. Since it's also an ATI card and works under the same drivers, if it was a problem with the card itself this should have fixed everything. However, it's also having all of the same problems. The device manager says that I need to reinstall the drivers, but the drivers are all still giving me the incompatibility BS.
*Yes, they're the right drivers. Even if they weren't, whatever went wrong has also broken the old installers that I know worked.
My next step is probably to try uninstalling the drivers that are there now and then try installing new ones, but I figured I ought to ask before doing something that might make things even worse. Ideas?
Recently I tried to update the drivers for my video card (Radeon X1300). The installer threw an error: "This display driver is not compatible with the adapter(s) installed on your system." I thought that was odd, but I didn't really care because I was only updating for the hell of it anyway.
Today I restarted my computer because my antivirus was saying I ought to, and my video card seems to be acting as if it's a generic VGA device (no acceleration, it's calling itself "default monitor" in the display settings, all my games have stopped working, and right after the restart it had reset itself to 640x480). Argh.
Here's what I've tried:
*More restarting, including turning the computer off to cool down. No dice.
*Retrying the driver install. Same error, drivers won't install.
*Attempting to roll back to previous driver versions that I know worked. Now they're also showing the "not compatible" error and refusing to install.
*Pull out the video card and use the on-board Radeon Xpress 200. Since it's also an ATI card and works under the same drivers, if it was a problem with the card itself this should have fixed everything. However, it's also having all of the same problems. The device manager says that I need to reinstall the drivers, but the drivers are all still giving me the incompatibility BS.
*Yes, they're the right drivers. Even if they weren't, whatever went wrong has also broken the old installers that I know worked.
My next step is probably to try uninstalling the drivers that are there now and then try installing new ones, but I figured I ought to ask before doing something that might make things even worse. Ideas?