Problem updating video card driver

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KingTomis

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Ok, I just had to wipe my old laptop clean and now I'm going about updating all the drivers again. When I try to update the video card'd drivers (ATI Mobility Radeon 9800) it cant find any newer drivers even though the current one on here is from 2004. Then when I go to the ATI webpage and try to download the right one it says it cannot be installed on my system, even though I had that same driver on before I had to "alt f11".

So I'm thinking I missed a driver for something else that is preventing it but I cant figure it out.

I scanned my comp at DriverAgent.com and 56% of my drivers need updating, yet when I go to device manager and try to update them, it says the same thing, it cannot detect any newer version.
 
You need to get the latest version of the Catalyst drivers from ATI and run the exe to uncompress them. It will fail with the same error, claiming your hardware is incompatible. Don't worry about that. The drivers will decompress in to a directory like C:\Ati\something. Run the mobility modder from here: http://driverheaven.net/modtool/ and point it to that directory. Then open the directory where everything was decompressed and run setup from there. They should install no problem.

Please note that your card is only listed as supported under XP, so if you're running Vista this probably won't work.
 
Ahh I think I figured it out, I updated windows but I guess I downloaded the wrong thing, I need the newest service pack to download drivers.

Easy fix except to view any web pages with the newest download you need to have internet explorer 5.0 or higher, yet to download the newest version of internet exporer you need the newest XP service pack....


I guess my problem doesn't really fit in this section anymore but I'm going to keep asking questions in this thread rather than make a new one elsewhere. And no, the web pages wont open with firefox.
 
~Didn't have windows updated properly.
~Couldn't upload Microsoft web pages to access the downloads without the latest version of Internet Explorer.
~Couldn't download the latest version of IE without the latest WIndows update.


But anyways, I have XP finally updated and still have the same problem, none of my drivers will update.
 
...follow the instructions I gave you to update your video drivers. The others should be self-explanatory.
 
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