cessna172se :
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I just noticed the following under [Control Panel > Device Manager > Display Adapters > ATI Radeon HD 4200 Properties] along with the "Driver Details" button, there's also the following two buttons:
1. "Disable" - Disables the selected device.
2. "Uninstall" - To uninstall the driver(Advanced).
I'm guessing once I install the NVIDIA card and drivers, I disable the Radeon on board video and reboot.
Correct?
Good notice! This is how to disable existing embeded card.
Now we need to remove ATI/AMD drivers, also, since you already tried to install NVIDIA drivers they have to be removed as well for clean final installation.
There are many arguments on the WEB on how to remove ATI drivers, so I will give you 2 choices, first automatic with DriverSweper and second manual, I would recommend to go first one and after go second just to check.
First. DriverSweeper.
Go to
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4266-driver-sweeper.html and get Driver Sweeper 3.2.0
I don't remember exact installation sequence so choose custom if asked and do not install any crappy addons (if they present).
Next watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXs3DHdbTUg very good indeed (I did it without video, more time spent), remember basic steps:
Step # 1 Install Driver Sweeper
Step # 2 Unistall your graphics driver here some official guide
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU57RemoveOldGraphicsDrivers.aspx
Step # 3 Restart your PC in Safe Mode (by pressing F8 during reboot, choose Safe Mode, first option from the top)
Step # 4 Run Driver Sweeper in Safe Mode
Step # 5 Select your drivers in Driver Sweeper and hit analyze and then clean
Step # 6 Restart PC and install newest drivers
Remember not to select AMD chipset! As this will ruin your PC and will require complete Windows reinstallation (which is good thing to do anyway if there is a problem).
Do the same with NVIDIA drivers, if Add/Remove doesn't show any NVIDIA drivers, go to Safe Mode and use DriverSweeper the same way as above, just right now hunt for all NVIDIA entries, there is no NVIDIA chipset, so no damage can be done now.
Second, manual ATI/AMD unsinstall, found this guide recently, never use it, so providing as it. Do at your own risk.
Driver sweeper has been known to remove important chipset files which will result in errors such as instability. Some users have reported that the sweeper software removes “False positives” and may cause the user issues when trying to install software such as drivers. The error usually reports that an .ini file is damaged. Over long term use of driver sweeper, it could cause several underlying issues which will do more harm than good.
This guide is an alternative, which removes all the files and registry entries that need to be removed for a successful uninstall. This is useful for upgrading/downgrading drivers or switching to another brand of card.
Guide (ATi-AMD)
Do not use this guide if you have an AMD CPU/Motherboard as you may destroy required chipset files. My comments - Inspiron 570 is using AMD based motherboard, so this guide is more tricky, be very careful!
1. Go to Add/Remove Programs
2. Uninstall the Catalyst Install manager (Express Uninstall)
3. Reboot the computer and log back into windows as normal
4. Go to folder options and select “show hidden files and folders”
The next part of the guide will remove all ATi/AMD files and folders from the computer.
5. Go to your C drive and remove the “AMD” folder
6. Double click the “Program Data” folder (Normally hidden) and remove all ATi/AMD folders
7. Go back to C and double click “Program Files” and remove all ATi/AMD folders
8. Go back to C and double click “Program Files (x86)” and remove all ATi/AMD folders
9. Go back to C and double click “Users”
10. Access the name of your windows profile and double click “AppData” (Normally hidden)
11. Check the “Local”, “LocalLow” and “Roaming” folders for any ATi/AMD folders and remove them.
12. Go back to “Users” and check the “Default” folder (Normally hidden)
13. Double click “AppData” (Normally hidden)
14. Check the “Local” and “Roaming” folders for any ATi/AMD folders and remove them.
The next part of the guide will remove registry entries left by the AMD drivers.
15. Close everything down and go back to your desktop
16. Click start, then type “regedit”.
17. Click “HKEY_CURRENT_USER” and extend the folder
18. Click “Software” and extend the folder
19. Remove all AMD and ATi Folders
20. Click “Wow6432Node” and extend the folder (Within the software folder)
21. Remove the “AMD” folder
22. Click “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” and extend the folder
23. Click “SOFTWARE” and extend the folder
24. Remove all AMD and ATi Folders
25. Click “Wow6432Node” and extend the folder
26. Remove all AMD and ATi Folders
27. Click “HKEY_USERS” and extend the folder
28. Click “.DEFAULT” and extend the folder
29. Click “Software” and extend the folder
30. Remove all AMD and ATi folders
31. Click “S-1-5-18” and extend the folder
32. Click “Software” and extend the folder
33. Remove all AMD and ATi folders
34. Click “S-1-5-21-1632250243-966907716-928185508-1000” and extend the folder
35. Click “Software” and extend the folder
36. Remove all AMD and ATi Folders
37. Close down regedit and empty your recycle bin
38. Undo the folder options change to hide the hidden folders
39. Reboot
40. Install your AMD/Nvidia drivers and reboot
This is about it.
Anything else I can help you with?
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