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Hi,

Can someone talk me through this cos' I'm a bit confused. I have a Radeon x1650 (it was a x1600 but it is now a x1650 for some reason) video card which is out of date (from 2009). I am running windows 7 (64bit) but only on 1GB (I know!). I uninstalled the graphics card through Device Manager and rebooted. I did not update the driver because my PC is showing it is up to date (bizaare?)

I then downloaded the AMD catalyst stuff but the download failed. I then removed all the AMD stuff including the registry folders with AMD and ATI and rebooted. I reinstalled the old driver and I am back to normal. But I'm confused after reading on ways to uninstall the drivers properly. Some suggest messing about with the BIOS, others suggest reinstalling or uninstalling in safe mode. Another suggests not to bother as x1600 is incompatible with Windows 7.

My reason for doing all this is because I want to play Trainz2006. But I cannot get pass the dreaded bluescreen when the game starts to load.

I've just downloaded the latest drivers for the x1650 and the date is 2010. Urggghh! Confused.

Thanks,

Martyn.

 
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You should simply be able to go to Control Panel/Programs and features, and run Catalyst Control Manager. It will give you the option of uninstalling everything AMD or allow you to pick and choose the drivers to uninstall. You would want to uninstall the graphic card related drivers/pgms.

After that, I'd run CCleaner just to clean up any junk in the registry that may have gotten missed: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Do the Clean and Registry portions both.

Finally, go here to download the driver for your card and OS: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
...and download/run the driver installation pgm.
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You should simply be able to go to Control Panel/Programs and features, and run Catalyst Control Manager. It will give you the option of uninstalling everything AMD or allow you to pick and choose the drivers to uninstall. You would want to uninstall the graphic card related drivers/pgms.

After that, I'd run CCleaner just to clean up any junk in the registry that may have gotten missed: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Do the Clean and Registry portions both.

Finally, go here to download the driver for your card and OS: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
...and download/run the driver installation pgm.
 
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Thanks but I've already tried all that and they are not the latest drivers for the x1650 legendary as it is still showing up as out-of-date.
 
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Is this the desktop x1650 (discrete card) or the laptop x1650 (chip)? If you followed the above steps and selected the correct driver, it has to work. Unless you are not giving all the information of the situation. Maybe you should list the system you have.

You say the download fails. What exactly does the error message say?
 
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It is the desktop x1650 series. I selected the correct driver (eventually) and the download worked but my driver is still out of date. I think the download failed because it was the wrong one. I have the correct one now but the driver is still out of date for some reason, and it means I don't pass the diagnostic tool for playing games. I tried playing a game last night and the pc bluescreened, something to do with atikmdag.
 
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