Windows ATI Update...messed up my pc?

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EnFoRcEr!!

Limp Gawd
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Well first, I have a Sapphire 9800 Pro...

About a week ago while running Windows Update, it came up with an ATI update in the driver list. It said it was released on December 12, 2003. Yet I've had this same pc setup for months now, so it seemed very odd that it was just now showing up. Either way, I installed the update thinking nothing of it, when it ended up overwriting my drivers. No big deal I figured, I reinstalled my Cat's and was on my way(Cat 4.7). While going in-game to play Counter-strike, i noticed it had changed my sensitivity, it was almost twice as high. That was the first odd thing. Then my computer would randomly restart on occasion, maybe once a day at the most. Now it tells me sometimes that I dont have the power cord plugged into my card, which I most definetely did, and it continued to do this periodically, and still does...but just now a new error occurred, where the VPU had to reset my graphics card telling me it had stopped responding and such. None of this started until I got this ATI update from Microsoft, and its not on my list of updates to remove in Add/Remove Programs, and I'll be damned if Im paying Microsoft to read my e-mail about how I need a fix to the problem they caused. Any advice or help?? Im desperate.
 
do you have system restore turned on?
it might have made a restore point when you installed it so you can load that, if not just load a restore point from before you got the drivers.

try removing the drivers using the ati - uninstall utility in add or remove programs and then reinstall new drivers.

good luck
 
i agree about windows update, it's the first thing i disable on a fresh install, windows update is the devil
 
Repeat...for our deaf readers:.... DO NOT EVER download DRIVERS from WINDOWS UPDATE...EVER

Micro-SOFT rarely if EVER knows what the correct drvers are for your system, or even what the latest drivers really are. Nor any bad interactions among differing drivers.
 
Well I tried to restore it to 2 different points before the update, and both times it told me my computer could not be restored to those points...what the hell?
 
It's not very hard to do a driver rollback or remove the drivers, that's what worked for me. Get into device manager (System Properties / Hardware / Device Manager).

Expand Display Adapters, right-click on your Radeon 9800 and choose uninstall. Reboot the system when prompted to do so. Cancel any Windows automatic driver update dialogues which come up when the PC boots up (or just ignore them) and then install Catalyst 4.8s
 
Thats what I did...I ran the ATI uninstall program, and restarted. Then re-installed my cat's. It doesnt do this often, but once is one time too many.
 
Okay, well, I tried uninstalling the card directly though the hardware manager, then installed the ATI 4.9 beta's. It wasnt until after this that I began to get even closer to what the problem might be. I ran the directX tests(dx 9.0b), and all of them would pass except for the Direct3D 9 interface test. After failing this twice, I went ahead and re-installed directx, and that fixed the problem. Then I ran into another problem...the same one that tipped me off in the first place just a few minutes earlier...3D mark 2001 got an error. As it would try to start the 2nd test, it would say that it could not initialize my 3D accelerator. That was before I reinstalled directx. AFTER the re-install, it would get to the 4th test, and then the 3rd...it was so random that it didnt make any sense. I tried to search on google for an explanation or solution, but as usual all of the pages w/ the error on it were in german or some other language =\

Now here's the odd part though...As you read above, my problem lies when I play Counter-Strike pretty much all of the time. Its rare that a problem occurs, but 1 time is too many in my book. What doesn't make any sense is that these problems occur in 3D Mark 2001(which tests D3D), but NOT in 2003(tests OpenGL, which is what mode Counter-Strike) runs in...

So to avoid becoming fluent in numerous languages, lol, could someone please help me??
 
EnFoRcEr!! said:
Okay, well, I tried uninstalling the card directly though the hardware manager, then installed the ATI 4.9 beta's. It wasnt until after this that I began to get even closer to what the problem might be. I ran the directX tests(dx 9.0b), and all of them would pass except for the Direct3D 9 interface test. After failing this twice, I went ahead and re-installed directx, and that fixed the problem. Then I ran into another problem...the same one that tipped me off in the first place just a few minutes earlier...3D mark 2001 got an error. As it would try to start the 2nd test, it would say that it could not initialize my 3D accelerator. That was before I reinstalled directx. AFTER the re-install, it would get to the 4th test, and then the 3rd...it was so random that it didnt make any sense. I tried to search on google for an explanation or solution, but as usual all of the pages w/ the error on it were in german or some other language =\

Now here's the odd part though...As you read above, my problem lies when I play Counter-Strike pretty much all of the time. Its rare that a problem occurs, but 1 time is too many in my book. What doesn't make any sense is that these problems occur in 3D Mark 2001(which tests D3D), but NOT in 2003(tests OpenGL, which is what mode Counter-Strike) runs in...

So to avoid becoming fluent in numerous languages, lol, could someone please help me??
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Maybe you should try the 4.8 Cats instead of the 4.9's. The 4.9's have some OpenGL stuff for D3 only.
 
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