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driver error after format
Name: brandon mackie Date: January 14, 2003 at 16:05:41 Pacific OS: windows me 4.90.3000 CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon/128
Comment:
my dad reformatted the comp or harddrive or whatever and now all of my games(which worked before) glitch after a few minutes of playing a game(screen goes black and sometimes makes a clicking sounds like it does when it resizes) also when a game loads, the black on the sides of the screen is deformed and bends into the screen from the sides. when he formatted, he installed ati radeon 9600 drivers off the ati site but we have 7200, so i uninstalled and installed 7200 but it still doesnt work.
Name: ryan Date: January 16, 2003 at 15:07:48 Pacific
Reply:
well windows registry probably messsd up, what you could do is when you startup press f8 and go to command prompt and type registry /restore and choose the first date you reinstalled the windows. and it will automatically detect all the device back to the original. you will need to reinstall all the drivers.
Summary: Hello all, I need some help with installing drivers. I formatted my hard drive today. Beforehand, in preparation for doing so, I backed up all the drivers on my computer using a program called Driver ...
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