I'll answer this real quick before I disconnect. First, download the
latest Catalyst 8.12 (if your current version is different) from AMD
(you'll still have to reinstall in either case). Go to Control Panel and
uninstall your current Catalyst driver, power off your PC, pull the old
card, install the new card and power it back up. Install drivers and
you're good to go. Game on!
Bino Gopal wrote:
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
