Windows doesn't like Install Shield! Pls Help

[ManiacMonkey]

Here's the situation:

I wanted to upgrade the drivers for AIW Radeon in Windows 2000. Bad idea. Knowing that ATI doesn't write the greatest of driver installation software, I gave it a shot anyway. I backed up the system state using the Windows Backup program thinking that it would save everything, including the ati drivers and settings, so if something were to go wrong I could restore the backup and all is well. Not the case. I did a manual install of the drivers by going to the adapter properties and updating the driver. However, after the drivers were updated and I rebooted, I proceded to try out the new drivers in good ole Counter-Strike. To my dismay, it reports that my card doesn't support OpenGL anymore. WTF! From there I restored the backup, again to my dismay, it restored everything except for the display drivers. I'm stuck. I tried uninstalling the drivers but it wouldn't let me. I tried uninstalling the MMC but it wouldn't let me. Then, throwing caution to the wind I try to install the drivers that came on CD with the card.

This is wehre the problem begins. After extracting the files, the computer would just lock up. I see the InstallShield task button in the taskbar. I waited for many minutes, but it seems to be a deadlock. Then I reboot, and boom! No more AIW. Luckily I have dual display with an old matrox card and that came up as Primary instead of the AIW. The AIW display was stuck at the loading Windows 2000 screen (the one before actual windows starts). Frustrated now, I choose to reinstall W2K. After doing that, I proceed to install the AIW drivers. First I try the new beta drivers from ATI (6025) and it freezes after INstallShield loads. I reboot, then try with the drivers from the CD. Same thing happens. I wipe the drive and reinstall Win2K again. Nothing in the motherboard except the PCI Matrox card. I plug in the AIW and try to install -- same thing. I tried installing the drivers for SBLive! Plat. and it freezes just like before! Dreadfully, I reinstall windows AGAIN and this time plugged in SBLive first -- the damn install freezes once more.

My friend suggested to go ahead and run XP --- out of options I did just that. In the beginning things looked smooth. It had drivers for AIW built in as well as SBLive. But when I tried installing MMC to watch TV and capture, it did not recognize the card as an AIW. Sadden by such a blow, I try to update the drivers... only to meet the same fate as in Win2K.

That is my story (novel?). Is there anyone out there can had a remotely similar experience or have an idea of what's going on? The computer worked flawlessly until I tried updating the drivers.

Athlon 1333
512 DDR 2100
ECS K7S5A w/ onboard LAN
Matrox Millenium PCI 4MB
AIW Radeon
Matrox PCI ATA100 card
SBLive! Platinum

 

[Wolfsraider]

could it be that the finicky ati all-in-one radeon must be listed as standard video adapter and as such may be seeing the matrox card ie overloading the drivers and knocking out the radeon?

did you try installing the radeon first?

also newest drivers from ati do support open gl as they didn't before

and last loading drivers it may help to download the utility on ati's web site to see if anything is wrong in how your card registers ie... does it register as ati aiw radeon

(since the 8500 series cardscame out) i found a link to 8500 drivers listed as aiw radeon and they were tough to get rid of

i reformatted fdisk'd and fdisk/mbr the last step 3 times to clear bugs lol

then i downloaded the newest drivers, do not (in xp) load the driver disk ones, as for me they crash my system
load win xp default then load the newest drivers from ati' site





http://support.ati.com/products/pc/...&cboProducts=ALL+IN+WONDER+RADEON&cmdNext=GO![/L]Board identification tool Here

this board is a great board but finicky so i don't know if this will help you but it has corrected many of my problems in the past and the only recomendation is dvd 5.0 isn't as good as earlier version and multimedia version 7.2 is better than 7.5 lol

these are the drivers i am using as of 2 weeks ago

hope this helps
Here is the newest ati aiw radeon drivers

 

[ManiacMonkey]

ah thanks!
Problem solved when I took out the other video card. DOH!
Thanks for you help. Those tools are pretty useful, too.

Although, WinXP insists on reinstalling the default AIW drivers upon startup without my say. That's pretty annoying. So I just updated the drivers with the 3276 and it's working fine now. Got the TV working (that's all that matters) =D

Thanks again!