HI, Guys !
Just got my 8790 today, picked up from the factory in L.A. but I am having a hell of a time trying to install the newest version of the catalyst drivers for the ATI 9700. Quite a few people seem to have the same problem, but I haven't found one satisfying answer to that question. Basically, every time I try to reinstall the driver, I am being told that there is and "INF Error - Video Driver not found", and that I should try to setup the adapter with a standard vga driver first. Correct me if I am wrong, but the easiest way (and the only one it appears) seems to be to restart in safe mode and install the new driver from there.
> Problem : I cannot get to the Safe Mode screen during bootup. I tried pressing F8 at all stages of boot, nothing worked. Does anyone have a clue how to get to this freakin' safe mode option ? The only driver XP lets me install are the ones Sager provides (version 6.14.10.6414).
> Has anyone had this problem and succesfully installed a new catalyst driver ?
> How do you turn off AA (or Smoothvision alltogether) completely ?
Thank you guys in advance. It's probably something stupid, but I am too tired to consider that an option.
Khazad
8790 - 17" - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/256Mb - 3.2 GHz Pentium4 - 1Gb RAM
60Gb / 7200 RPM - Win XP SP1
Just got my 8790 today, picked up from the factory in L.A. but I am having a hell of a time trying to install the newest version of the catalyst drivers for the ATI 9700. Quite a few people seem to have the same problem, but I haven't found one satisfying answer to that question. Basically, every time I try to reinstall the driver, I am being told that there is and "INF Error - Video Driver not found", and that I should try to setup the adapter with a standard vga driver first. Correct me if I am wrong, but the easiest way (and the only one it appears) seems to be to restart in safe mode and install the new driver from there.
> Problem : I cannot get to the Safe Mode screen during bootup. I tried pressing F8 at all stages of boot, nothing worked. Does anyone have a clue how to get to this freakin' safe mode option ? The only driver XP lets me install are the ones Sager provides (version 6.14.10.6414).
> Has anyone had this problem and succesfully installed a new catalyst driver ?
> How do you turn off AA (or Smoothvision alltogether) completely ?
Thank you guys in advance. It's probably something stupid, but I am too tired to consider that an option.
Khazad
8790 - 17" - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/256Mb - 3.2 GHz Pentium4 - 1Gb RAM
60Gb / 7200 RPM - Win XP SP1
