I've had this driver issue for over 2 years and i finally sat down and want to fix it

ok i have an asus A78nx deluxe board and an ATI Raedon 9600 128 video card

Whenever i update the drivers for my video card, when it restarts, it comes back with a big wave effect on the screen, and everything is all slow and when i open stuff it has a wave effect, or if on a webpage when i use the scroll mouse, it waves down the page.

Now in the past i have just uninstalled new drivers, and installed old, restart and all is good.

Well lately the games i want to play require newest drivers, so i go and update them, and bam back to the wavy screen again, so i uninstall and all is fine again...the game says i need newest, but when i install newest, then uninstall, the game works, so i guess it thinks i have newest and goes with that.

the main error i am getting is a direct-3-D error now when i try to run my games, i am currently running on older drivers, since i tried updating to newest today again, and of course i am back at the wavy shadowy screen.

If i uninstall and reinstall, works fine, but i am not technically using the newest drivers, and i would like to

i have the latest directx, and everything else works fine, its just when i update, i cant stand the wavy screen and all the pop-ups like found new hardware, the bubhle like fades in, like the video is not drawing it fast enough.

If i disable write-combing in advance options , it dont have the wavy effect, but you can still see it has problems, plus my games wont run without having that enabled, if i disable under performance options to like halfway to the one that says to correct direct-3-d problems it works ok, but i cant leave it like this to play my games.

so what am i to do, is there a trick to uninstalling and reinstalling to make the newest drivers work? i have never been able to do the newest drivers, stable, always went back cuz of screen had waves in it whenever i scroll down or folders have shadows behind them when i drag them, i spent a lot of time in the past trying to figure this out

i thought it was maybe the refresh rate, but i have tried that in the past, video works perfectly fine until i update, and then it has drawing problems on screen

My advice would be to go into SAFE MODE and remove drivers in CONTROL PANEL - ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS and then remove all entries for graphics cards in DEVICE MANAGER.

Reboot PC and let XP install the Generic Driver, reboot PC then run the install from the 'self-Executing ATI Driver package installer'

Your problem is actually letting XP install the driver.

Get CatUninstall.exe from ATi.com and remover your drivers that way 1st.

Download the new drivers onto your desktop and leave them there, they're the last step.

Then as plain and simple says goto the DEVICE MANAGER and delete everything under graphics adapter.

!!! IMPORTANT !!! DO NOT REBOOT YET !!!

Your drivers are still working, you have to now get the latest VIA 4in1 click here and grab the v4.56 set. Unless you have a RAID or SATA drive, in that case grab v5.06

Install those, the main point of interest is the AGP GART portion.

Ok, reboot - BUT - enter the BIOS first before she fully comes back up. Your looking to make sure your Primary Video is set to AGP. Then find the RESET ESCD CONFIGURATION and select yes and also set PLUG'n'PLAY OS INSTALLED to NO.

Ok - now save changes and get out of there, let her come back online. Just wait patiently as Wintendo finds new hardware ( those bubbles ). It should then prompt you on the action to take. When it does press CANCEL, and click on the driver package on the desktop.

This is the fight I had when I installed my AWI 9800 PRO

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'rp$D