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I've had this problem with my video card ever since the first Catalyst drivers came out and even thought it was supposed to be fixed around version 2.3 or so, I've come to accept it. What happens is that whenever I install new drivers for my Radeon 8500LE 128, the system detects it as a YPbPr screen and will give me nothing but a black screen upon the restart following the installation of my drivers.
What I have to do to get it to work is:
1: Borrow another monitor, usually from a friend
2: Start up the computer with the borrowed monitor attatched
3: Switch monitors once Windows has loaded sucessfully.
4: Save that display profile in the "Displays" tab in the ATI Advanced Settings
5: Bind a hotkey to that setup
6: When windows starts up the next time, it won't be a black screen, but it will be in 640x480, horribly off center, oh, and GREEN.
7: When I hit the hotkey I bound the setting to it will revert to the specified resolution and I have to use PowerStrip to lock the refresh rate at 85Hz.
I'm getting a new hard drive this weekened and totally redoing windows. My question is: How do I transfer the hotkeyed display profile I've worked to hard to fix to this new hard drive. Is it possible? Or do I have to go through that whole process again?
Believe me, if I could have gotten a new video card by now, I would have. And I'm saving up right now.
What I have to do to get it to work is:
1: Borrow another monitor, usually from a friend
2: Start up the computer with the borrowed monitor attatched
3: Switch monitors once Windows has loaded sucessfully.
4: Save that display profile in the "Displays" tab in the ATI Advanced Settings
5: Bind a hotkey to that setup
6: When windows starts up the next time, it won't be a black screen, but it will be in 640x480, horribly off center, oh, and GREEN.
7: When I hit the hotkey I bound the setting to it will revert to the specified resolution and I have to use PowerStrip to lock the refresh rate at 85Hz.
I'm getting a new hard drive this weekened and totally redoing windows. My question is: How do I transfer the hotkeyed display profile I've worked to hard to fix to this new hard drive. Is it possible? Or do I have to go through that whole process again?
Believe me, if I could have gotten a new video card by now, I would have. And I'm saving up right now.