Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
twistingsims:
:o Well I'll be hornswoggled, that actually worked, don't know if it was the cleaning of the drivers, or that latest driver update, which for some reason I couldn't find before, only the 6.8, but so far so good, the sims are back to normal, well as normal as sims can be, lol.
Thank you everyone for your help!! ;D I know its pretty pathetic to be so addicted to this stuff but I am addicted and don't mind admitting it! :D
KatEnigma:
The driver is new, released Wednesday. So you didn't just miss it, but it may have been a driver conflict issue. I haven't updated in months, and didn't have the problem. Somewhere on my machine, I have ATI's own driver uninstaller, as its near impossible to find on their site, but they put it with the driver downloads one month, to push it.
SpaceDoll:
Well, I just got my memory and my 9600 pro in the mail today. ;D
I'm going to put in the memory first and then deal with the video card. I had to turn off my integrated video in BIOS to work the old card, and I would rather not mess with that again, but I need to be able to use the display when installing the new card. The old card is an Nvidia geforce 2 :o and the new one is ATI, will there be some kind of driver conflict? Can I just install the new drivers, open up the box, rip out the old card and put in the shiney new one? Or do I need to do somethin' special?
Thanks for your help!
Hegelian:
You need to purge your PC of all vestiges of the nVidia drivers before installing the new board.The nVidia driver uninstall utility may or may not accomplish this, so you may want to try Driver Cleaner (do a Google search) after doing the uninstall from Add/Remove Programs. Once those drivers are gone, shut down and switch boards. Boot the PC and cancel out the new hardware wizard when it attempts to install drivers for the ATI board (you may need to do this more than once). Then run the ATI driver setup program from the CD, or the downloaded drivers if you choose to use those.
SpaceDoll:
So, if I wait to install ati drivers 'til after the baord is in and my integrated graphics are off in BIOS, will my screen actually work? I mean, isn't there nothing there? ???
Sorry to sound silly, but the simplest of hardware tasks, although I theoretically know how to handle them, often turn into huge complicated piles of shit for me!!! Just trying to evade any computer 'splosions!
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