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.

I'll proabably get around to calling the independent tech today. One thing though, when I did all this in the beginning I simply downloaded the whole ATI Catylist suit which contained WDM Integrated drivers. I believe now from reading about it those are for laptops. I can't remember if I got rid of the WDM integrated drivers. Would they have been on the add/remove programs list in the control panel. Thanks.

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