Thank you Walt! Hope -----Original Message----- .From: "one foxy lady"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .Sent: 9/2/06 8:36:42 PM .To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> .Subject: Re: [jaws-users] Warning about ATI Catalyst video drivers version 6.8 . .This doesn' effect the 200 series does it? . .Thanks, . .Hailley .----- Original Message ----- .From: "Walt Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .To: "JAWS-Users" <[email protected]> .Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 3:18 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 .> .> .> .> .> .> .> .> . . . . .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 . . . . . . .
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