Video Card Issue in XP Pro

[bpi]

I installed XP Pro to a desktop PC, PIII, 450 MHz, 256MB. The video card was Diamond Stealth S60 AGP. XP Pro could not detect the video card and installed a vgaSave driver for me. I tried to uninstall the vgaSave driver and reinstalled the S60 driver via the supplied CD. The installation of the S60 could not finish and I got error message saying that I need to install a standard vga driver before going to install the S60 driver.

How could I get rid of the vgaSave from XP and install a standard VGA driver such that I can continue to install the S60 driver ?

Other than this issue, everything else is working fine under XP. BTW, I have the XP service pack 2 installed.

Thanks,

Ching-Ho Cheng

 

[LloydSev]

You don't need to remove the old driver first. You just need a compatible driver for XP for the card.

S60.. Radeon 7000..

Maybe you can get an updated driver from

http://www.diamondmm.com/

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[bpi]

Thanks for the reply, I will try to download the latest driver and try it again tonight.

Ching-Ho Cheng

 

[dakota81]

I would try getting the Radeon drivers directly from

http://www.ati.com

 

[bpi]

I will try that too.

Thanks,

Ching-Ho Cheng

 

[LloydSev]

Diamond is one of those, though, that has specific drivers for their hardware... so you'll wanna try diamond first.. then ati if those don't work.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[bpi]

Ok.

Thanks,

Ching-Ho Cheng

 

[bpi]

I tried the latest driver downloaded from diamondmm.com and ati.com. Same result as before. Installation of the driver was not completed, need to install a standard vga driver.

Then I just tried to install the driver manually. Found the driver directory and the INF file. However, after windows XP read in the INF file, there was no driver listed in the dialog box to select the correct video card !!!! The selection was empty. I could not continue the manual installation as the "Next" button was greyed out.

Any other suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks,

Ching-Ho Cheng