just bought a x850 xt

December 6th, 2005, 04:14 PM

found a brand new x850xt for $250 after $50 mail-in at microcenter. gonna put it in later this week but i really dont feel like formatting. upgrading from a 9800pro. gonna do the usual whenever i install a new graphics driver - uninstall everything, reboot w/modem off, driver cleaner, manual delete ati files in sys32, reboot, then install drivers. hopefully everything goes well. what do you think? i'm sure it'll be fine as everytime i update or install new drivers it "finds" the 9800pro as new hardware. maybe i'll uninstall the 9800 in device manager too. good idea?

**Regeneration** · December 6th, 2005, 04:49 PM

Use ATI Uninstall Utility (get it from our files section)

screenager · December 6th, 2005, 05:19 PM

or use driver cleaner it should do the trick.

December 6th, 2005, 07:50 PM

Format!!! This is the best way to go, avoid ALL problems that way

December 6th, 2005, 10:22 PM

I think its pretty safe to use uninstall, then go to safemode, then use driver cleaner. Thats what I did when I upgraded to the same card from the same card and I'm doing fine.

December 6th, 2005, 10:43 PM

there shouldnt be any problem uninstalling your old card via safe mode ,using driver cleaner .

anyway's I would still recommend you to format and install a nice and clean os ..
trouble free and you can be sure to get the most out of your new GPU .

n00blet · December 10th, 2005, 10:14 PM

If both products are BUILT BY ATI then you should be able to simply swap out cards with out uninstalling anything. I did the same swapping out a 9600 (non pro) and 9800 pro over and over for troubleshooting and the ati drivers didn't need reinstalling.