Hey guys, so just wondering if the collective can give me some tips here before I go and get myself in a pickle! :P
Going to upgrade the vid card on my system from the X800XT to an HD4830 (both ATI of course). I was wondering what the best practice for doing this was to prevent problems; I mean, since w/o the vid card you can't *see* anything on the system, it's kind of important to get it right the first time, right? I haven't done a vid card upgrade in over 10 yrs (and only ever done one once myself) so I'm pretty rusty at this.and I seem to recall issues that last time. So I've got the Sapphire HD4830; do I just use the drivers on the CD, or would it be better to go dl new ones, or maybe use some other "reference" or generic drivers first to be safe, and then go to the Sapphire ones? The drivers are on a CD too; I assume copying them to the HD to a dir there would be better right? And in case things get fubar'ed and I can't get the new card to work for whatever reason, is there some trick to backing out/undo'ing the driver/software installs so I can get my old card working again? Things are in a working state and I'd like to have a rollback plan if the upgrade fails, but not sure how viable that is with vid card upgrade attempts; people that have gone through that, any thoughts? TIA guys! BINO
