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Ati catalyst
Hi
I installed Ati catalyst 7.1 last week on my E510 Vista machine. It was supposed to take care of a compatibility issue with Ati desktop control panel. It did not. Anyway I just downloaded v7.2. I hope it will take care of the problem.Before i install 7.2 should i get rid of 7.1 if so How? Thank you
robertc123
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Posted February 24th, 2007 21:00
Here we go again. I download the ATI Catalyst from the Dell website and the Control Center would not run after several attemps of uninstalling and reinstalling it still would not open and keep arguing with Vista. In fact it wouldn't let me install the latest 7.2 from ATI. I finally went to the explorer after the last uninstall and had to delete the entire ATI folder which the uninstall didn't do. And then I was able to install 7.2 from ATI and all is perfect now. Does Dell actually check there drivers before they post them? The driver date for the Vista 32 from Dell was October 2006. The worst part was trying to get rid of it by the surgery I performed. In fact I finally got the 3d modeling enabled and all the lastest features for the Video Card. I really don't understand any more what Dell is doing technically they are missing the boat. I really fell we are there beta testers being they never respond to us. How could they actually post so called new compatible drivers that don't work. Is Dell becoming E-Machines?- You should go to the ATI web site for the latest video drivers, not Dell. Ditto for sound cards, printers, wireless cards and any other non dell hardware. Dell doesn't post drivers until they are tested and approved. Keep checking back at the manufacturers sites for new drivers for vista.
- I installed 7.2 and i received errors and files missing. I uninstalledand then went to program files. Found the Ati folders and deleted everything inside.Reinstalled 7.2 and everything looks great. ThanksBy the way i downloaded both 7.1 and 7.2 from the Ati web site.The orignal Ati files are probably the problem here.
Message Edited by chasbox on 02-24-2007 07:24 PM robertc123
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Posted February 25th, 2007 01:00
Why is Dell posting such old non working drivers in the Vista section. I sure wasted alot of time time till I finally took a stab in the dark and deleted all of the ATI folders manually. I know the folks at Dell probably have their hands full but I had to study and become a real geek to get Vista running correct.I can see this board becoming very busy real soon.- I loaded it last night. Everything looked like it went fine. After a re-boot however I had no mouse or keyboard. After trying everything, safe boot, shutting off things in bios I had to boot up w\CD and use repair\restore(which worked perfectly). Everything is fine now but needless to say it didn't go well. Dell E521 Vista 2gig ram TV Wonder 650 **Should v 7.3 work for me, or did I miss something? I bought this card mainly so I could dub over from an 8mm camera. thanks -Rich
Message Edited by frenchrl on 04-04-2007 12:13 PM - HiI would download it again ( the driver not 7.3) to your desktop. Then uninstall everything , both 7.3 and the driver. Then install the driver clean from your desktop. Go to C: program files-ATI and look for the uninstaller. Use it, Then reinstall. Good luck
- Thanks for the response. Will do on the 7.3 removal. I installed the software from the link you mentioned a few days ago (no problems at all) but It doesn't seem to include the catalyst software. I believe it's only a driver? if I am wrong that would be great news to me :-) but I sure can't find that Catalyst software on my system. btw Cable t.v. and radio work great through windows media. thanks -rich
Message Edited by frenchrl on 04-04-2007 01:31 PM
VMBieg
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Posted February 24th, 2007 20:00