Hi Walt; Your timing is amazing.
I was going to install those very same drivers. Thank You Anthony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JAWS-Users" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 4:18 PM Subject: [jaws-users] Warning about ATI Catalyst video drivers version 6.8 > If you're one of those techie types who likes to always have the most > current video, audio, and other drivers installed; and if your computer > has > a video adapter that uses the ATI Catalyst driver set (mine has an ATI > Radeon X800 SE card); do _not_ download and install the latest set of > drivers from the ATI web site. These are version 6.8 and the full name of > the download file is > 6-8_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_35179.exe. These files will badly interfere with > JAWS (any version) and unless you've armed yourself in advance to deal > with > the problem, uninstalling them and returning your system to a usable state > will not be anything remotely close to trivial. After I installed this > version and discovered the problem, I was able to use a second computer to > locate an earlier version of the Catalyst drivers (version 6.2) on the ATI > site and was able to install them with the help of the ATI uninstall > utility > and Narrator, but it was more than a little nerve-wracking. I've been > installing updated ATI video drivers as long as I've owned this Dell > computer and _never_ encountered a problem of them having any kind of > negative impact on JAWS, but this latest set's affect is nothing short of > disastrous. > > -- > Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List > send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 9/1/2006 > Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
