Issues with ATI drivers

I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers but here is my problem that I have not found the solution to anywhere. I just bought a RADEON HD 4670 and put it in my computer, following all the steps and so on. I installed the drivers on the CD which came with CCC 8.8, but the manual suggested looking for updates. So I go to the ati website and download version 8.9 and attempt to install it only to get this message "Setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system." I looked this up and found that you must completely uninstall the old version before updating, so I did that and tried again only to get the same message. I tried the other way suggested too, by using the drivecleaner to remove all traces of it and tried again. Still no luck. What am I doing wrong?

Also, some people maybe just say to stay with 8.8 but with that I have been noticing that after a while of running CCC I get the "has encountered an error and must close" box. Apparently I did something wrong to cause this to happen and any help would be appreciated. thanks.

Ok thanks, so does CCC even need to be open at all? like if it crashes can I just leave it closed? Also another dumb question. Before I switched graphics cards, whatever version of CCC I had showed the temp of the GPU. However on version 8.8 I cannot find it for the life of me, instead it shows a meter of GPU usage which does not help me tell if it is overheating.

And is there a way to check the temp of the card?

Try downloading the drivers and utilities from your manufacturers website rather than the ATI website. I use the 8.8s and I don't have any problems with CCC, but then I'm using a 3850. If you had an onboard video or nVidia card before make sure you properly uninstalled those drivers.

Try using Driver Sweeper, Driver Cleaner is a little long in the tooth and may not get all the files. I haven't used it yet, but Dagger says it works.

CCC doesn't even need to be on your computer. I don't even load it, I just load the drivers. IMO it is unstable pigsh|t, I'm sure others don't agree.

Try RivaTuner Version 2.11 and see how it performs.

At this point I dont even care what drivers I get installed, but both 8.8 and 8.9 are not working (getting the same error message upon install) even for just the drivers.

did you make sure you picked the right OS and series of card for the driver picker thingy at ati?

I try to not install the .net stuff needed by ati drivers if I don't need it.

You might have the 64 bit version , but you're right that series isn't listed on ati's site. What's the manufacturers site?

have you tried both the 64 bit and 32 bit versions of the driver on Sappires's site?

Please help, this brand new card is useless until I figure this out.

I just uninstalled the items from the add/remove section of control panel that had to do with ATI, (uninstaller, drivers, CCC)

Ive done that too Yuka and I still get the error message but at the moment something is working. I drive cleaned and when windows asked to find new hardware I did that and it installed some radeon drives, then i updated them and installed CCC 8.9 seperately. Now I have no idea what drivers I actually have installed, so is there any way to check which ones I have?

The RivaTuner I linked above, or device manager.

Use Driver Cleaner to remove all those things again.

Check this link: Previous Radeon Drivers

That's the 8.8 for XP Pro. Just download the Drivers and not the CCC. Erase all the other things you downloaded just to be sure before downloading this one. After the drivers are installed, try some games. They should work and all.

Anyway, I'm kinda interested in finding wich exact Service Pack you have on your Windows install... If you have "Windows Professional SP2" you should be good, but if you have SP1 or even lesser, no driver is going to work fine for you IMO. Can't assure that, but everything seems to point that.

Esop!

EDIT: Little error in typo.

If it is working properly then leave it alone, unless you like the aggravation.