ATI Mobility X1400 Driver Update Question

[rodney_ws]

My laptop has an ATI X1400 video subsystem and runs Windows Media Center 2005... application stability is great... perfect... but gaming stability is NOT. The Sims 2 routinely causes a BSOD on exit and in the message I can spot an ATI file as the culprit. I've updated drivers a thousand times, but I'm having a little bit of difficulty with this one.

Can anyone please explain the process for updating my ATI video driver? Something is telling me it's not as straight-forward as it should be. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Rodney. Do you use normal Catalyst drivers (as found on the main link on ati website)? I think that media center uses a slightly altered driver for ATi cards.

To uninstall:
Download and install Driver Cleaner Pro
Use add/remove programs to remove Catalyst.
Reboot into safe mode
Use Driver Cleaner and clean a.) CAB file and b.) Remove all ATi programs
Reboot normal and install drivers

 

[meadyboy113]

You could roll back the driver?

 

[rodney_ws]

Long story short... I went to the Dell web site and downloaded an updated driver package from there... just ran Setup and clicked next a few times... rebooted and it worked. The updated driver did appear to resolve some gaming issues I was having.

Something in my gut was telling me I should uninstall the old driver and then use a generic driver then install the new one... the driver installation process did uninstall the old application and driver set first... guess it was easier than I expected.

Thanks for the replies.