Re: New ATI Card Causes Taskbar to Disappear

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"EricG" <EricG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All,

My Nvidia 6800 GT melted this weekend, so I bought an ATI Radeon HD 3650
to
replace it - it's hard to find an AGP card these days, and that was what
Best
Buy had on hand!

I had no problems installing the card or the new drivers and software, but
when I rebooted my system and Windows came up, the taskbar at the bottom
of
the screen was missing - there was nothing but a black empty space in its
place. When I run any full screen program and then quit it, that black
space
is replaced by whatever was in the program's window, but the taskbar
doesn't
come back.

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP3 on a Sony VAIO 2.8
GHz
Pentium HT with 1.5 GB of RAM.

If you have any suggestions for fixing this or any clues, I would
appreciate
a response.

Thanks,

Eric


I assume you unistalled the nVidia drivers. You may have to do
a search and destroy mission to clean remnants of the nVidia
drivers from your registry. Are the ATI drivers the latest, or
what came with the card? If you downloaded the latest version,
uninstall it and try the driver on the card's CD, or vice versa.


.

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