Radeon 8500 Drivers won't install...

[GEShields]

I bought an 8500 Retail today and I can't get the drivers to install under Windows Xp Pro.

I had a Leadtek GeForce2 GTS installed and I uninstalled the display drivers for the card...then took it out of the machine. I inserted the Radeon 8500 and upon bootup it found new hardware. I cancelled the Windows install and went to the CD-ROM that came with the card. After going for about 1 minute it said there was a problem with the installation and that I should set the video card to standard VGA before I install the ATI Drivers.

I can't find how to install a generic VGA driver because everytime it sees the Radeon 8500...

Help....

Greg

 

[LuDaCriS66]

First of all, don't bother installing the drivers that come with the CD. They're not very good. Download new drivers at rage3d.com and then unzip them to a temporary directory. I'm assuming that the drivers won't come with an install executable.

So, when the new hardware wizard comes up, just point it to the directory with the drivers.

 

[Tates]

Try the 6.13.3286 drivers...

 

[Spoon]

None of the above will work, I went through the same thing last weekend. Ended up having to reinstall to get it recognized

 

[AA0]

nvidia drivers also don't uninstall properly, if you try to install your card now, the performance will most likely suck. I'd try and find a fix for it, or format and reinstall.

 

[PerfectFit]

To install the generic VGA driver, click on "change adapter", "have disk", then select "show all hardware" and the Standard PCI VGA option should be listed