Radeon Problem

acbeaton · Apr 11, 2005, 08:33 PM

Can anyone please cast some light on this problem? I have submitted problem reports to ATI but am getting nowhere.
Every time my machine starts an ATI Control Panel instal screen in Hungarian pops up in spite of the fact that Control panel in English is already installed and working. I cancel the instal screen and everything appears to work normally. The problem started about a month ago after I upgraded my XP SP1 installation to SP2. Today ATI recommended I upgrade to Catalyst v.5.4 in the hope that this would resolve the issue. I uninstalled all ATI software and re-installed, using 5.4. No joy!
Any ideas as to what might be triggering this instal screen would be much appreciated.

TJ- · Apr 12, 2005, 01:57 AM

try installing 5.4 without the CCC, get a whole new version from the site, i alwas had problems when usin CCC... none when i didnt inclue it in the install...

or you could be smart and goto omegas drivers

also try Dh driver cleaner

acbeaton · Apr 12, 2005, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [zi0n]aXe

try installing 5.4 without the CCC, get a whole new version from the site, i alwas had problems when usin CCC... none when i didnt inclue it in the install...

or you could be smart and goto omegas drivers

also try Dh driver cleaner

Thanks for your reply.

I downloaded and installed 5.4 without the Catalyst Control Center.

I will take a look at your other two suggestions.

Following a suggestion in the Common Problems Forum (and in desperation) I removed all language files, other than English, from the ATI Control Panel directory. Needless to say I still get the Hungarian instal screen!

acbeaton · Apr 12, 2005, 10:27 AM

This message was originally posted in the Windows Radeon Display Drivers forum.

I am not using a laptop but a desktop with a Sapphire Radeon 9200SE 128MB in an AGP 4x socket on an ECS K7S5A motherboard, AMD 2100+ XP cpu, 80GB C: drive, Windows XP SP2 Home. Is this the correct location for this problem - or does it not matter?

acbeaton · Apr 12, 2005, 08:47 PM

Disabling a command line in the Startup tab of the System Configuration Utility setting up the old version of ATI Control Panel (from the CATALYST 5.3 package) stopped the Hungarian instal screen popping up. CATALYST 5.4 is the currently installed version. The command line comes from the Registry and obviously the ATI uninstall utility is not properly cleaning the Registry as there is more than one reference in it to the old CATALYST version. I usually follow an uninstall with a RegClean to get rid of any remaining references to ATI before installing the new version but I did not do that when I upgraded to 5.4. Another oddity is that the directory C:\ATI\Support\ contained sub-folders for both 5.3 and 5.4 so ATI's UninstallAll utility, AtiCimUn.exe, seems not to be doing a very good job. It all seems to be a bit of a mess and I guess I had better do another uninstall, clean and re-install. Maybe I should give Driver Cleaner a trial?

acbeaton · Apr 14, 2005, 09:51 AM

To update my last message, I received very full instructions from ATI yesterday from which I deduce that I used the wrong uninstall program. The program "AtiCimUn.exe" was in my ATI Technologies directory within Program Files and described as "UninstallAll" so I think my mistake was understandable. The correct uninstaller is "cat-uninstaller.exe" available from "www2.ati.com/drivers/cat-uninstaller.exe".

TJ- · Apr 14, 2005, 09:54 AM

umm... driver cleaner is your best bet dude

why didnt you uninstall in add/remove programs?

acbeaton · Apr 14, 2005, 11:00 AM

Problem resolved. Cat-uninstaller utility run and CATALYST v.5.4 re-installed OK. Incorrect command line deleted manually from Registry and msconfig Startup is now "clean".

Faith in ATI restored!

PS But I'll never know why Hungarian language screen!!!

daedal · Apr 14, 2005, 11:18 AM

For further reference, definitly run Driver Cleaer when you have any driver issues and re-install.

Jugga · Jan 6, 2007, 05:05 PM

Hey all. was wondering if anyone could help me. i have a ATI RADEON 9600 256mb graphics card. I have had it for about 9months now and lately it has started just freezing for no reason about 5 min into gameplay i have tried it with a few different games and sometimes it'll let me play but most of the time it freezes for a while then my monitor turns off and i get a no signal message on my monitor or i get a vpu error and have to restart.

I have tried switching drivers between ati catalist and my cd drivers and even resetting my bios to defalts still no luck

Any Ideas??

Apr 11, 2005, 08:33 PM	#1
acbeaton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Radeon Problem Can anyone please cast some light on this problem? I have submitted problem reports to ATI but am getting nowhere. Every time my machine starts an ATI Control Panel instal screen in Hungarian pops up in spite of the fact that Control panel in English is already installed and working. I cancel the instal screen and everything appears to work normally. The problem started about a month ago after I upgraded my XP SP1 installation to SP2. Today ATI recommended I upgrade to Catalyst v.5.4 in the hope that this would resolve the issue. I uninstalled all ATI software and re-installed, using 5.4. No joy! Any ideas as to what might be triggering this instal screen would be much appreciated.

Apr 12, 2005, 01:57 AM	#2
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	try installing 5.4 without the CCC, get a whole new version from the site, i alwas had problems when usin CCC... none when i didnt inclue it in the install... or you could be smart and goto omegas drivers also try Dh driver cleaner __________________ new sig comming soon

Apr 14, 2005, 09:54 AM	#7
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	umm... driver cleaner is your best bet dude why didnt you uninstall in add/remove programs? __________________ new sig comming soon

Apr 14, 2005, 11:18 AM	#9
daedal Uber Coffee Drinker Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gatineau, Quebec Posts: 2,250 Rep Power: 0	For further reference, definitly run Driver Cleaer when you have any driver issues and re-install. __________________

Jan 6, 2007, 05:05 PM	#10
Jugga DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: london Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	ati radeon 9600 vpu error Hey all. was wondering if anyone could help me. i have a ATI RADEON 9600 256mb graphics card. I have had it for about 9months now and lately it has started just freezing for no reason about 5 min into gameplay i have tried it with a few different games and sometimes it'll let me play but most of the time it freezes for a while then my monitor turns off and i get a no signal message on my monitor or i get a vpu error and have to restart. I have tried switching drivers between ati catalist and my cd drivers and even resetting my bios to defalts still no luck Any Ideas??

Apr 12, 2005, 10:27 AM	Thread Starter #4
acbeaton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	This message was originally posted in the Windows Radeon Display Drivers forum. I am not using a laptop but a desktop with a Sapphire Radeon 9200SE 128MB in an AGP 4x socket on an ECS K7S5A motherboard, AMD 2100+ XP cpu, 80GB C: drive, Windows XP SP2 Home. Is this the correct location for this problem - or does it not matter?

Apr 12, 2005, 08:47 PM	Thread Starter #5
acbeaton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Disabling a command line in the Startup tab of the System Configuration Utility setting up the old version of ATI Control Panel (from the CATALYST 5.3 package) stopped the Hungarian instal screen popping up. CATALYST 5.4 is the currently installed version. The command line comes from the Registry and obviously the ATI uninstall utility is not properly cleaning the Registry as there is more than one reference in it to the old CATALYST version. I usually follow an uninstall with a RegClean to get rid of any remaining references to ATI before installing the new version but I did not do that when I upgraded to 5.4. Another oddity is that the directory C:\ATI\Support\ contained sub-folders for both 5.3 and 5.4 so ATI's UninstallAll utility, AtiCimUn.exe, seems not to be doing a very good job. It all seems to be a bit of a mess and I guess I had better do another uninstall, clean and re-install. Maybe I should give Driver Cleaner a trial?

Apr 14, 2005, 09:51 AM	Thread Starter #6
acbeaton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	To update my last message, I received very full instructions from ATI yesterday from which I deduce that I used the wrong uninstall program. The program "AtiCimUn.exe" was in my ATI Technologies directory within Program Files and described as "UninstallAll" so I think my mistake was understandable. The correct uninstaller is "cat-uninstaller.exe" available from "www2.ati.com/drivers/cat-uninstaller.exe".

Apr 14, 2005, 11:00 AM	Thread Starter #8
acbeaton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Problem resolved. Cat-uninstaller utility run and CATALYST v.5.4 re-installed OK. Incorrect command line deleted manually from Registry and msconfig Startup is now "clean". Faith in ATI restored! PS But I'll never know why Hungarian language screen!!!