had a heck of time when I first upgraded my card to an ATI x-700 ..... you have to do as susgested and UNinstall all old drivers ..... better yet .... remove the card ... put your old one back in .... boot up .... then go into control panel and system hardware and UNinstall all video drivers and devices ........ shut down .........
install new card again .. boot up and windows should tell you new hard ware found and it'll want to set it up DON"T LET IT
go into control panel again and choose the add new hardware icon ..... put you new CD into drive and make it read it ...... if by chance you still can't get the cd to read ... go to a friends house ( if you don't have an extra pc avaible ) and make a CD image of it and upload the image someplace so you can download it ...... once downloaded use a virtual CD to mount the image but close the screen that pops up wanting to install anything ................. run the add new hardware and then point the files to copy from at the virtual cd ......
My ATI Radeon X-700 wouldn't run right until I installed off my cd that came with it ... it still doesn't like most of the new catylast upgades either .. so I just use what came on cd ............
edit : bios will disable onboard graphics at boot up if it detects a video card ..... windows installs a generic video driver to get up a screen to look at ..............
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