Hi all I just recently DECIDED to check ATI's website for updated drivers and seen that they had one. I was loosing some performance to my aging card (8500DV All In Wonder) and though that some new drivers might give it a boost. I downloaded the new drivers and used ATI's RECOMMENDED uninstall tool to remove the old ones.

Then I rebooted and proceeded to install the new drivers but ran into an error message during install telling me that the "installation cannot be completed try installing basic VGA drivers then try to install the software again". Ok thats a first so I then uninstalled the partial driver installation and rebooted. I then went to the device manager and it showed absolutly NO display adapter driver, nothing. When I clicked on the display adapter ICON and looked at the PROPERTIES it said it was using the default VGA adapter and has me stuck at 640 x 480 resolution.

I have tried installing the old drivers but now get the same error. I have also tried using microsoft update but also get a failed installation. Has anyone else had this problem how can I fix this without reinstalling windows?

My System

WinXP Home SP1
ATI 8500 DV AIW
512 mb kingmax DDR 400 ram
Seagate 80 GB HD
Soundblaster Live Audio Card
Microstar MB
AMD AthlonXP 2400+With the standard VGA drivers in place, highlight the car item and right click to choose Properties and click. Then choose REINSTALL Driver and point the source of the drivers to where the unzipped drivers you downloaded are and let Windows do it.

Do not use Windows update for this and make sure you have the correct drivers.