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Makes no difference whatsoever.

Before upgrading a video DRIVER don't you generally uninstall the old one? And you don't remove the video card, correct?I believe he's upgrading his video card, not just the driver.  It sounds like he just put the new card in without uninstalling the old drivers before doing so, and then installed the new software.  He also says windows is saying he has his old video card in after he put the new one in.

I'm just going by what he's saying, and it sounds like there are some details left out. Quote from: OpenSource on October 26, 2010, 02:51:33 PM

I believe he's upgrading his video card, not just the driver.  It sounds like he just put the new card in without uninstalling the old drivers before doing so, and then installed the new software.  He also says windows is saying he has his old video card in after he put the new one in.

I'm just going by what he's saying, and it sounds like there are some details left out.

that is exactly what I did. i had upgraded video cards to a new one and never uninstalled my old drivers. When I get home i will uninstall the nvidia drivers. Quote from: Allan on October 26, 2010, 12:51:10 PM
You do not need to remove your graphics card to uninstall the drivers. Let's start at the beginning

Uninstall the nvidia driver. Go to the ATI Website and download the LATEST driver for your new video card. Install that driver.

I'm not sure what else you have done, but that's all you should have to do.
Quote from: Allan on October 26, 2010, 03:29:26 PM
You do not need to remove your graphics card to uninstall the drivers. Let's start at the beginning

Uninstall the nvidia driver. Go to the ATI Website and download the latest driver for your new video card. Install that driver.

I'm not sure what else you have done, but that's all you should have to do.

In theory, that is supposed to work.  Sometimes it does.  It's pretty common though that you remove the old card before uninstalling the drivers.  The success rate of that is 100%.  Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but i've seen your method fail too many times to not suggest removing the new card before getting rid of the old software.He has an ATI card and is uninstalling Nvidia drivers. Please - stop posting the same suggestion. Quote from: OpenSource on October 26, 2010, 12:42:02 PM
(assuming you have onboard video);

1) Take out your new graphics card.
2) Uninstall the Nvidia drivers.
3) Reboot.
4) Make sure the Nvidia drivers are GONE.  You may have to run Ccleaner on your registry.
5) Turn off computer.
6) Install the graphics card.
7) Turn computer on.  Run the ATI all-in-one driver package.

If you don't have onboard video, TRY uninstalling the Nvidia drivers.
None of this is really relevant. I don't think there are any driver issues here at all.


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when i got the new video card all i did was just plug it in. I never installed any drivers or anything. I bought a new computer game and went to play it and its not working so I had my friend take a look at my comp to see why and he said that my computer is saying that I have a nvidia Geforce video card and not the radeon 9800 from ATI.

When you installed the new card, XP recognized the 9800 and used the BUILT in drivers; you didn't need to install them. Either that, or it used the very generic drivers (which means you hadn't played any games other then this "new" game).

Secondly, the game probably didn't run because, as you said, it was a new computer game. The 9800 Pro is quite a few generations behind, so the new game probably refuses to run with it.

Third, your friend is clearly not familiar with On-board video configurations, and is throwing out reasons that don't make a whole lot of sense.


To confirm this, visit Device Manager (Start->Run devmgmt.msc) and see what is listed in the "Display Adapters" Tab.


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