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ATI cat 4.4 Upgrade

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blizzard0999

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I recently upgraded to the 4.4 Cats and since doing so my computer will hang for several seconds fairly often during the day. Also sometimes when my monitor switches to screensaver it will freeze up the picture and it will take several seconds to return from screensaver. I have tried unistalling the cats to reinstall but when i go into add/remove programs and click ATI display drivers i get a message saying "Error Initializing" and then it quits. I have also tried installing over the 4.4s again and it still is messed up.

9500 Pro
XP Pro
Size 12 shoe
 
Get a driver cleaner first, then do a clean driver install.

I don't have a link off hand...I'm sure one will show up though 🙂


EDIT: Hahaha, size 12...just saw that 🙂
 
The driver cleaner i got ( http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/ ) wants me to uninstall all display drivers first, which i cant do. Should i go ahead and run it anyways in safe mode?


DriverCleaner Instructions

1. Unplug nic card or modem from net or disconnect
2. Remove ATI driver from add/remove programs then remove the control panel from add/remove programs
3. Reboot into safe mode (F8 during boot up)
4. On reboot into safe mode WinXP SP1/SP2 will auto detect and install drivers. Just let it do its thing. If you can cancel out of the auto install hardware wizard then skip the rest and run Driver Cleaner! If you can NOT cancel out of auto detect wizard then...
5. Navigate to device mgr->display adapter->uninstall and/or remove ATI display adapter but do not reboot
6. Disable any AntiVirus Software (If you don't disable is than it could give trouble)
7. Run Cab Cleaner (not needed, but recommended)
8. Run Driver Cleaner
9. Empty recycle bin and reboot
10. Install the new drivers and control panel
 
I booted in safe mode, ran driver cleaner and didnt see any ati folders when i rebooted so i think it worked. I just hope that fixed the problem. NOTE: i Still get the error message when i go to add/remove ati display driver. Any ideas why that is?
 
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