radeon 9600 shown as unknown in device manager

Shagg

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I currently installed catalyst 3.8 for my radeon 9600 pro. it shows as unknown instead of display adapter in device manager. Is this normal?

shagg

win xp pro
epox 8rda+
athlon 2800xp
768 ram
 

chess9

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I have the same problem. It won't load the catalyst control panel either. I loaded the old drivers on the cd and it worked fine. 3.8 doesn't work either (tried 3.7 and they don't work). ATI has an issue with the9600 they aren't bothering to fix, I assume.
-Robert
 

chess9

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Yes, and thanks for that. It cleaned up my Creative Sound Blaster Live installation nicely! No luck with the Radeon Control Panel and Cat 7 or 8 though.
-Robert
 

tenoc

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chazz, you actually want people to read a post that shows you to be a blithering idiot? Really?

How about your other post where you and your gf believe that Valve's "stolen" code is physically missing?

Gaawwdd!

Oh yeah - the correct spelling is nvidia!
 

rbV5

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Did you use driver Cleaner or other third party tool?

Catalyst 3.8 also have an ATI removal tool now. Its not normal, my card is listed properly in device manager. Maybe try the ATI tool and follow the install tips to reinstall cat 3.8. Make sure you have your MB chipset drivers up to date, DX9b ect.
 

Shagg

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Ok guys, I finally solved it. After doing system restore countless of times and reinstalling ALL available catalyst drivers, I did the one thing that got me going. I inserted the win xp cd and rebooted. After the standard blue screen installation screen, I chose to repair my existing installation. Windows recopied all the system files without touching any of my existing programs. I had to reinstall the service pack and just about every patch out there again. But the whole process took about an hour. Better than the 10 hours I spent trying to fix the problem. Now I have the latest catalyst drivers and my card is displayed under "display adapters". I can now use ragetweak and other programs normally. My advice is to NOT start any programs or games after reparing windows without FIRST applying the service pack, patches and any other mobo drivers needed.
All is well now in SHAGG LAND.

Hope this helps anyone out there. DONT USE ANY REGISTRY FIXERS. simplest way is to repair.

Peace

P.S. Because i didnt know my cards serial number (9600 pro purchased only 2 weeks ago), ATI said they couldn't help me. Even though I told them the hassle I would have to go thru to GET to my pc. I understand they want to only service actual owners, but hell, they had me on their system as having purchased 8 other of their products in the last 5 years..GEEZ