Re: No Display Adapter After Installing Win XP Pro SP2

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From: Peter Harrington (pharring_at_columbus.rr.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:11:06 -0400

I removed the SP2 update, and I still have the same problem. I guess I am
really stuck at this point.

Thanks,

Pete

"Peter Harrington" <pharring@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%23Ujgz$UkEHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi:
>
> I used the automatic update to install Windows XP Pro SP2 on my kids
> computer. It has an Epox 8K5A board with an AMD 1900 XP processor. The
> graphics card is an ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra with 32 MB of RAM. After the
> install, there is no display adapter in the device manager. The graphics
> adapter is some 60 Hz system driver.
>
> When I try to install the driver manually from the ATI CD, it fails with a
> message to try again in VGA mode. In safe mode, I cannot even attempt to
> install the graphic driver using the ATI setup software. Plug and play
> does not seem to be working for the driver, although the ATI utility can
> correctly identify the graphics board.
>
> It seems like SP2 is like a bad STD, I could not figure out how to roll it
> back.
>
> Any help on getting the graphics driver to correctly install would be much
> appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Pete
>

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