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Issues with ATI drivers

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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.

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Well no reason to really go from 8.8 to 8.9. So I susgest using the disk and put 8.8 back on there, and holding off until 9.0. The CCC "crashing" happens to me to, its not a big deal, the driver and the card continue to work fine.

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.

Well, its what it says it is, control center. Its not the driver itself its just control/setup software. So unless you need to be accessing it constantly then no. But its still good to have running for profiles if you ever use them.
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ugh sorry to bother again but for the weekend I wont have the install CD. So I tried downloading the 8.8 drivers and im getting the same message. Apparently the CD is doing something different that the downloaded package is. I need a graphics card this weekend!
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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.

See that was where there was a confusion. I picked the right OS, (I have windows XP professional so I'm going to assume the 32 bit one is what I have) but the 4600 series is not even listen on ati's site. I checked a bunch of the other series' and they all lead to the 8.9 download. But that cant be the problem because I went to the manufacturer's site and they had it listed, and those drivers do not work either. Unless windows xp professional is not 32 bit?

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?

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?
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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.
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