I hate video card upgrades
Jan. 11th, 2005 03:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I don't think I've ever upgraded a video card and not had all kinds of problems. Watching Tom's upgrade go so smoothly yesterday, I was convinced that this would be a snap. But nooooo. Massive problems ensue, I can't get the drivers to work properly and they keep freezing up.
I posted to the City of Heroes boards and someone told me what I didn't really want to hear... that ATI drivers still don't work well with a legacy system like Win98se. Never have, never will. Grrr. Well, as it happens I've been planning for a long while to upgrade to Win XP pro, and I even bought it a while back, but I was expecting it to be a pain to install and therefore I'd been avoiding it.
So now I'm installing, and it's not really as problematic as I thought. But I kinda suspect I should have disabled the ATI driver before doing this, because it's probably going to sieze up halfway through the process or something...
I posted to the City of Heroes boards and someone told me what I didn't really want to hear... that ATI drivers still don't work well with a legacy system like Win98se. Never have, never will. Grrr. Well, as it happens I've been planning for a long while to upgrade to Win XP pro, and I even bought it a while back, but I was expecting it to be a pain to install and therefore I'd been avoiding it.
So now I'm installing, and it's not really as problematic as I thought. But I kinda suspect I should have disabled the ATI driver before doing this, because it's probably going to sieze up halfway through the process or something...
