Windows 7 finds an old Radeon card I took out

onetruejames · May 16, 2015

I replaced my Radeon HD 4200 with a GeForce 9400 GT, and Windows 7 still finds the old Radeon as new hardware every time I reboot. I've uninstalled, deleted the drivers, everything. It always finds new hardware, installs the old Radeon drivers and then says there's a problem with the card. It shows both in the device manager but says there's a problem with the Radeon (duh).
This problem is crashing all my games. I've tried just disabling it in device manager, but I always get a blue screen. And I'm ignorant when it comes to disabling things in BIOS.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks in advance.

onetruejames · May 17, 2015

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and still no luck. Same results.
In another thread here, someone with a similar problem suggested DesktopDisplayUninstaller from www.guru3d.com. This program went to a lot more trouble to uninstall things; registry entries, orphaned dlls, etc. But Windows update still tries to install the old Radeon drivers, so I just have to hide that update. The Plug-and-Play still finds a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" in addition to my GeForce, and still says "The device cannot start." So, I don't know.

maxalge · May 17, 2015

onetruejames :

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Uninstall all drivers, amd ones first. Restart then the geforce ones.

Restart again, then install the new gpu drivers.

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