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please help

by f15e May 22, 2005 3:58AM PDT

I installed a VGA driver for my Radeon 9200 AGP series 256Mb card b/c a MSI Live Monitor utility said that there were 6 VGA drivers for my VGA card.

After installing it, I noticed problems with my computer. I ran dxdiag from the ''run'' box and noticed that the DirectX features ''DirectDraw Acceleration'', ''Dircet3D Acceleration'', and ''AGP Texture Acceleration'' were disabled. I don't see anywhere where I can enable them.

Does anyone know what I should at this point. I tried to uninstall the display drivers from Device Manager and install the old driver I had, but that didn't seem to work.

Please Help!!

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Try this

by Merl Priester May 22, 2005 4:09AM PDT

Go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the Radeon Drivers. Any and all parts of the driver.

Look in Device Manager, if the Video Adapter still shows, delete/uninstall it from there.

REBOOT

Let XP install a generic driver it has.

Now either put your oringinal driver back on, or go to the MSI site and download a driver direct, or go to ATI website and download the catalyst driver.

Should fix the problem.

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Yep

by Oopio May 22, 2005 4:30AM PDT

Yeah it's usually a problem of people not understanding how to correctly install/unstall their video drivers.

This is the correct procedure for XP.

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