7850 to 7950 remove drivers, and re install?

[paulstung]

As above really I am upgrading from a 7850 to a 7950 tomorrow. Although the drivers are the same, should I remove my current driver, and then do the whole driver sweeper thing ? And then re install .

 

[yassarikhan786]

1. Download driver sweep, go into safe mode, remove all graphics drivers.

2. Boot into regular windows mode and install new drivers.

3. Enjoy your new card.

 

[paulstung]

As I thought cheers mate.

 

[alienware]

Doesn't AMD do what Nvidia do now and offer you a "clean install" option?

It basically driver sweeps itself.

 

[Noz_God]

Doesn't AMD do what Nvidia do now and offer you a "clean install" option?

It basically driver sweeps itself.

Still do a driver sweep as it wont get rid off the the crap thats left. Clean install only clears game profiles i think

 

[FTLN]

As above really I am upgrading from a 7850 to a 7950 tomorrow. Although the drivers are the same, should I remove my current driver, and then do the whole driver sweeper thing ? And then re install .

Ati Man uninstaller
http://www.mediafire.com/?0jdko53gk5npzo0

 

[NeverBackDown]

1. Download driver sweep, go into safe mode, remove all graphics drivers.

2. Boot into regular windows mode and install new drivers.

3. Enjoy your new card.

How do you get into safe mode exactly?

 

[Devo234]

1. Remove all floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs from your computer, and then restart your computer.
   Click the Start button
   
   , click the arrow next to the Shut Down button
   
   , and then click Restart.
2. Do one of the following:
   
   • If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you'll need to try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shutting down and restarting your computer.
   • If your computer has more than one operating system, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system you want to start in safe mode, and then press F8.
3. On the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to highlight the safe mode option you want, and then press Enter. For more information about options, see Advanced startup options (including safe mode).
4. Log on to your computer with a user account that has administrator rights.

 

[equk]

As above really I am upgrading from a 7850 to a 7950 tomorrow. Although the drivers are the same

If you are installing the same driver version, just put in the new card? :mellow:

If upgrading to new drivers, remove current ones, reboot and possibly run a driver cleaner of some sort.
There aren't really that many files missed by the catalyst uninstaller

I ran a uninstall of catalyst, did a reboot and then ran a driver file cleaner and there were something like 5 files it missed which were mostly DLL's which got overwritten when I installed the new version of the drivers :huh:

 

[paulstung]

Yea I'm in the latest drivers now whatever there at 12.10 is it? So that will be ok will it ? I always thought you had to remove, and re install, I suppose there is no harm in trying, just a replace of card.

 

[NeverBackDown]

1. Remove all floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs from your computer, and then restart your computer.
   Click the Start button
   
   , click the arrow next to the Shut Down button
   
   , and then click Restart.
2. Do one of the following:
   
   • If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you'll need to try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shutting down and restarting your computer.
   • If your computer has more than one operating system, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system you want to start in safe mode, and then press F8.
3. On the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to highlight the safe mode option you want, and then press Enter. For more information about options, see Advanced startup options (including safe mode).
4. Log on to your computer with a user account that has administrator rights.

Thanks for the detailed wall of text

 

[Devo234]

Thanks for the detailed wall of text

i just copied and pasted from microsofts website lol

 

[Roooker]

I bet there is NOT A SINGLE FRAME difference if he just exchanges the cards. Clean driver installes get overrated. The only time you need to do that is when you have any problems with the card not getting recognised or something.

 

[paulstung]

I got the card, and tried just to swap it over, but there was no driver detected, and ccc wouldn't open. So it was a case of removing drivers, and doing a sweep.

 

[equk]

I got the card, and tried just to swap it over, but there was no driver detected, and ccc wouldn't open. So it was a case of removing drivers, and doing a sweep.

That's weird

I went from a HD5770 to a HD7950 without any driver uninstall / reinstall :huh:

 

[airdeano]

did the same with a 580 to 660 ti card swap. didn't remove diddle. re-detected new
card and zoom non-issue.