{"id":159,"date":"2004-08-11T02:16:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:46:30","slug":"210-goto-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"210 GOTO HELL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I installed Catalyst 4.9 drivers for my Radeon 9600Pro<\/a>, overwriting the 4.4’s. Or so I thought. Error. “Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup.<\/i>” I uninstalled the drivers and rebooted, reinstalling… this time, it could not find the file specified. That was merely the start of a descent into driver hell.<\/p>\n

Reboot. My video card driver was dead, and it was replaced by a VGASave<\/b> driver. After much research on a very slow Streamyx connection<\/a> (downloading drivers at below 10kbps) and a night of rebooting, going into Safe Mode, using Driver Cleaner<\/a>, disabling the conflicting NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge<\/b>, and not having anything aforementioned work, I found the solution, to my problem, at least.<\/p>\n

The driver installer extracted installation files into a folder first. I peeked inside and installed CPanel\/Setup.exe<\/b>. That worked! Thus, the next step would be Driver\/Setup.exe<\/b> – while it did scare me a bit with a “Zero Display Service<\/i>” error, it did ask to reboot, as customary after a successful driver installation.<\/p>\n

Catalyst 4.7 was installed! I then installed 4.9, again, with the “Zero Display Service<\/i>” error, but at least it worked! (Yes my driver hell could’ve been because I jumped from 4.4 to 4.9…)<\/p>\n

Now before Nvidia groupies bash my head over, this problem happens with Nvidia cards as well, on nForce2 and VIA chipsets. And yes, I never did figure out the damn GeForce4 TI4200 128MB 4x AGP card<\/a> that insisted on being in PCI mode. Hurrah for a 3dfx Voodoo3 16MB PCI card<\/b> too, running incompatibly in Windows XP.<\/p>\n

In a way, that escapade was hell on my computer. I went through all this trouble for a smooth walk in hell on Mars. Yes, the pretty Doom 3<\/b>. Prettier than Far Cry<\/b> in some parts, but geeking out there will be saved for a proper article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I installed Catalyst 4.9 drivers for my Radeon 9600Pro, overwriting the 4.4’s. Or so I thought. Error. “Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup.” I uninstalled the drivers and rebooted, reinstalling… this time, it could not find the file specified. That was merely the start of a descent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}