I recently got an ATI Radeon 9550/X1050 Series video card. I noticed my computer was getting more and more errors each time I upgraded the driver when there was an update. So I decided to go back to the update when things were fin. So I went to the ATI site and downloaded the older update and installed it. The errors coming up stopped. Now my computer restarts every time it goes into sleep mode. I simply thought it must be the fact it's an older computer and simply can't handle ATI driver updates. Since after all I got the pc in 2001.

But now when I think about it maybe overwriting the latest update with an older update might have caused a problem. Maybe each time I update the driver I should uninstall the previous driver update instead of letting a newer installation overwrite it.

So whey not just remove completely the ATI Driver updates, go to the ATI site and grab the earlier update. That would remove the overwriting. Is this a good idea or will it make me not be able to view my monitor?

I ask this because way back I use to have an old 486 and I changed the resolution to something I didn't know the computer couldn't handle. And well the screen then displayed with green static. You could barely make out the menus and mouse. I somehow saw through the static and changed the resolution back. I'm not sure how I recognized things, but I did. That was a nightmare practically and I do not want to make the mistake of doing it again to this computer. It's still unbelievable that the 486's drive only held up to 6MB. Wow.

Hi Toruser

I perfer that digerati help with most of your problems since he has much more experence than I do.

What I can tell you is a little bit about the ATI and whats showing up in the add/remove

The ATI card has two connections, one is for the standard connection, and there is a DVI connector also(secondary)
The nice thing about the card is it lets folks run dual monitors. (looking at that setup now)


This is the part I would rather Digerati confirms, But IMO it's best to use the uninstall from ATI. It should remove all the componets at one time.

And of course afterwards use the Driver Cleaner Professional. So DVI stands for Digital Video Interface? So if the one means standard definition and the secondary means digital how do I know if the digital(DVI) will work on my monitor? Yeah and I guess he'll have to answer this if you can't, but in the driver tab I spoke of should I update from there from here on out or simply go to the ATI site and get the updates there? Which is better to do in otherwords?

This post has been edited by toruser: Apr 21 2008, 02:37 PM