Okay, this MAY not be the right place for this question, and if it's not, I apologize. I have a problem that is really starting to get on my last nerves.

A few weeks ago, my computer crashed because of a "failing hard drive". Alright, so I take it in to a local computer service center, and they were able to copy everything to a new hard drive and install it into the computer.

But when I turned it on later, an error message came up that said my ATI Graphics Driver wasn't installed. Hmm, that's odd. No problem, I just went to the ATI web site and installed it again. I was back up and running in no time.

Or maybe not. Now the problem is, I can't play any PC games. It would always tell me that it can't find DirectX 9. Here we go again. So I go onto the internet and DOWNLOAD the latest version of DirectX 9 no problem. I try to play a game but it still tells me that it can't find DirectX 9. Really?

So my question(s) is, did I do something wrong? Did I forget to do something? Has this happened to anyone here? Do you GUYS have any tips? I don't really know a lot about computer hardware, as I have come to realize. Thanks in advance.could you POST your computer specs also?

have you tried uninstalling it, and installing it again?..... and did you uninstall the PREVIOUS version (if any) before you tried putting directx 9 on?