Re: Standard VGA Drivers

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:18:45 -0700

Try booting into Safe Mode, open Device Manager, remove all references to
the video card, reboot and let Windows install the video drivers.

"Mantis" <psycho_mantis_fxh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Alright, I think this may be a hardware issue, but I'm
> not certain, but here's the story. A fews day ago I
> accidentally installed XP Pro over my XP Home Edition
> when I was trying to add my laptop to my network using
> that Perform Additional Tasks feature on the Win XP
> disc. I got pretty much everything recovered on my
> laptop now, except that it disabled my video drivers when
> it finished the install. My video was managed by an ATI
> control panel, and was labeled as ATI Radeon 9000
> Mobility. I can't contact my vendor of the laptop
> because they no longer exist it seems, and I tried
> installing ATI Radeon Mobility drivers for it, but it
> says that I should try enabling standard VGA drivers
> before running the install. I enabled VGA mode, which I
> thought that's what it was talking about but its still
> not working. The main problem I'm having is that my
> system on my laptop is struggling along now, especially
> when scrolling through pages of a document or viewing a
> web page, which it never use to do when I had Home
> Edition installed. And since the great people at ATI
> really haven't been of any help to me, can someone help
> me out here, or at least point me in the right
> direction. Any help is much appreciated.

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