I too have bought a new video card, but i seem to be having problems

[Jeff]

Picked up a radeon 7500, have a real old diamond viper v330 in it now, tried
the remove hardware, and just popping in new card, the darn thing locks up
at the starting windows screen in XP home edition.It will boot in VGA mode
and safe mode, but it wont boot normally, I can stick the old card back in
and it will start up fine. Any help appreciated.

[NoNoBadDog!]

You have to uninstall the old drivers first, then go into Control panel and
uninstall the card.

Shut Down (don't reboot).

Install new card.

Boot computer.

Install drivers for new card.

Bobby


"Jeff" > wrote in message
...
> Picked up a radeon 7500, have a real old diamond viper v330 in it now,
tried
> the remove hardware, and just popping in new card, the darn thing locks up
> at the starting windows screen in XP home edition.It will boot in VGA mode
> and safe mode, but it wont boot normally, I can stick the old card back in
> and it will start up fine. Any help appreciated.
>
>

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Jeff" > wrote in message
...
> Picked up a radeon 7500, have a real old diamond viper v330 in it
now, tried
> the remove hardware, and just popping in new card, the darn thing
locks up
> at the starting windows screen in XP home edition.It will boot in
VGA mode
> and safe mode, but it wont boot normally, I can stick the old card
back in
> and it will start up fine. Any help appreciated.
>
>

You should remove the drivers for the old video adapter before you
remove it. The system will revert to standard VGA which is
supported by all video adapters. When you are asked to restart the
computer, select No and turn the computer off instead. Install the
new video adapter and reboot. The new adapter will be detected and
Windows will attempt to load compatible drivers. You can interrupt
the process to install the included drivers.

ATI is very particular about old drivers. You have to even remove
old Radeon drivers before you can install an updated driver.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Neil]

How do you interupt windows and stop it from loading
whatever drivers it thinks might be compatible when you
start up with the new card?

Neil

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Jeff" > wrote in message
...
>> Picked up a radeon 7500, have a real old diamond viper
v330 in it
>now, tried
>> the remove hardware, and just popping in new card, the
darn thing
>locks up
>> at the starting windows screen in XP home edition.It
will boot in
>VGA mode
>> and safe mode, but it wont boot normally, I can stick
the old card
>back in
>> and it will start up fine. Any help appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>You should remove the drivers for the old video adapter
before you
>remove it. The system will revert to standard VGA which
is
>supported by all video adapters. When you are asked to
restart the
>computer, select No and turn the computer off instead.
Install the
>new video adapter and reboot. The new adapter will be
detected and
>Windows will attempt to load compatible drivers. You
can interrupt
>the process to install the included drivers.
>
>ATI is very particular about old drivers. You have to
even remove
>old Radeon drivers before you can install an updated
driver.
>
>--
>Earl F. Parrish
>
>.
>

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Neil" > wrote in message
...
> How do you interupt windows and stop it from loading
> whatever drivers it thinks might be compatible when you
> start up with the new card?
>
> Neil

Hit the Cancel key which displays in the progress window.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Donald Link]

No one has yet mentioned whether he has the PCI version or the AGP
version.\\\











"Neil" > wrote in message
...
> How do you interupt windows and stop it from loading
> whatever drivers it thinks might be compatible when you
> start up with the new card?
>
> Neil
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"Jeff" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Picked up a radeon 7500, have a real old diamond viper
> v330 in it
> >now, tried
> >> the remove hardware, and just popping in new card, the
> darn thing
> >locks up
> >> at the starting windows screen in XP home edition.It
> will boot in
> >VGA mode
> >> and safe mode, but it wont boot normally, I can stick
> the old card
> >back in
> >> and it will start up fine. Any help appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You should remove the drivers for the old video adapter
> before you
> >remove it. The system will revert to standard VGA which
> is
> >supported by all video adapters. When you are asked to
> restart the
> >computer, select No and turn the computer off instead.
> Install the
> >new video adapter and reboot. The new adapter will be
> detected and
> >Windows will attempt to load compatible drivers. You
> can interrupt
> >the process to install the included drivers.
> >
> >ATI is very particular about old drivers. You have to
> even remove
> >old Radeon drivers before you can install an updated
> driver.
> >
> >--
> >Earl F. Parrish
> >
> >.
> >