Catalyst issue

MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
edited November 2007 in Science & Tech
The catalyst driver installer keeps crashing on me. :( I googled it and a few people said to try "Run as..." on the setup exe and untick Protect My Computer but that didn't work for me. The setup greets me with a series of errors right when it starts. As soon as I click the first one, the second pops up, and after that the screen changes and the last error (0x80040707) appears.

Any suggestions?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Have you installed all the versions of .NET?
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2007
    1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 are installed. Do I need the service packs for the older versions? I'm not sure if they were installed.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Have you tried re-downloading the install package? I've had installs fail on me before because the file got corrupted in download...
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2007
    GHoosdum wrote:
    Have you tried re-downloading the install package? I've had installs fail on me before because the file got corrupted in download...

    Tried again from two separate sites, no dice.
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    The biggest problem is getting the conditions right for the install with ATI cats.

    Suggest you run driver cleaner and remove all ATI drivers (all devices).

    Make sure you have Net2.0 and updates for it.

    Make sure you have standard VGA loaded as the video driver even if you have to manually select it.

    Reboot a couple of times and then run the CAT installer. It should work fine then.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2007
    Well, safe mode worked, but of course I ran into another problem.

    "Setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system. Setup will now exit."

    Excellent.

    AGP radeon 9550 on XP, if that helps at all...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Install the Standard VGA adapter for your video card. Force it to install.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2007
    How do you force it? It just said something along the lines of not being able to find a better match than what you're currently using. What's the file name for the standard driver?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    The second part of this Microsoft article should have the answer you're looking for on that.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268852

    I've always been annoyed at the Catalysts not installing without a standard VGA driver in first.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2007
    That didn't work cause some of the steps don't seem to apply in XP... Once again I'm staring into 19" at 60hz :banghead:

    When I skip the search it ends up using no drivers at all (?) and if I choose to install automatically it comes up with a missing file dialog. Indeed the files are missing but I want it to use the standard drivers, not ATI's. :shakehead

    I've never had this kind of problem before... Usually I could just install the new driver on top of the old one without so much as a hiccup...
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