Cannot install/update driver for my Radeon 9250 Graphics card.

Xolith · December 31st, 2006, 07:00 AM

I recently bought a Connect3D 92500 Radeon 256mb AGP graphics card to replace my Asus GeForce Ti 64mb one.
Here is a dxdiag of my system: link

The problem is that when i try to install the drivers from the CD that i got with the graphics card I get this message:

I have tried to do this in safe mode. And DxDiag says i am using a generic driver, I think thats the same as a standard driver.

I then tried to install drivers via device manager and i got this message:

Thank you in advance,

outlaw2001it · December 31st, 2006, 07:20 AM

Hello,
Did you uninstall the driver for the old video card prior to taking it out? If not that's what the problem is. Put the old card back in, boot into Windows. Uninstall the Video Drivers, and shutdown the computer. Take out the old card, and put the new card in. After Booting into Windows install the new drivers, and everything should be good to go, if not post a new message detailing your problems. I hope that this helped. Take Care...Happy New Year.

Xolith · December 31st, 2006, 08:31 AM

How do i uninstall nvidia drivers? Do i have to press uninstall in device manegar. Because thats what i have been doing and i did do before taking out the nvidia in the first place.

I have been through add/remove and got rid of all of the omega drivers i had. Also when i searched of nvidia in regedit, i found loads of entries. I deleted most of them but some could not be deleted.

Thanks again for your help and Happy New Year.

Xolith · December 31st, 2006, 09:06 AM

Since i did uninstall the drivers prior to taking out the first card. I did what you suggested. And still access denied. I've got no idea what to do now.

Scrolling down in firefox/IE is a real pain it kinda does a wave refresh motion which is really annyoing. Also it says its in 1hertz which is confusing.

When it found new hardware (the ATI) the installation was a bit different, it could not verify the graphic card or something similar. Windows asked me whether i want to allow it and i did. It also asked me for some .sys file which it found on the driver CD.

Aslo windows wants me to reinstall the driver to fix everything, but it says access denied after copying a load of files.

outlaw2001it · December 31st, 2006, 10:25 AM

Hello,
Try downloading, and installing the latest Drivers from AMD/ATI's website.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/x...rer300-xp.html
Post another message if it works or not. Take Care, and Good Luck.

Xolith · December 31st, 2006, 10:36 AM

I'm still getting:

I think that when windows or ati try to install the new GFX card they get access denied when trying to edit the registry since there are still a few nvidia entries. I cannot edit them manully either.

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I've tried to put back to old card so i can look for a solution without the lag. I got this message:

The service database is locked

on the second attempt i got

Access Denied.

I think i might have to fresh install windows but I'm trying to fix it without that because 4 hours of live update and windows update dosen't sound very good.

carl33p · December 31st, 2006, 12:09 PM

See if Driver Cleaner helps you:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...-Cleaner.shtml

Im not sure if this would help: But you could try putting the old card back in, Go Start / Programs / Acessories / System Tools / System Restore and try going back to an earlier date when everything was stable.

Xolith · January 2nd, 2007, 01:31 PM

Driver cleaner didn't help and system reastore wouldn't restore for some reason.

So i did a fresh install of windows and installed the GFX card in under 5 minutes.

I think my registery was locked or corrupt and windows couldn't edit it.

Thank you for your help.

Street702 · July 27th, 2009, 05:40 AM

I have an issue with the 9250 i followed the directions in the book it came with by installing the card in to the pci slot and then powered my pc and all that happened was the fans came on along with the fan on the 9250 and nothing else i then turned the pc off and re-booted and it was fine i went through the device manager and disabled the sis on-board card and then tried to install the driver for the new 9250 card still nothing i have gone through the bios and can only change the bios to 128 also i have changed the bios to run pci instead of on-board this is the first card i have put in this computer it is an HP pavilion a1007w yes i know its an older pc but for the most part it does the job but i for some reason i can not install this card and i am very frustrated and do not know what to do i have looked at many many discussion boards and i have tried just about everything that i have seen on them and i still sit here running a sis 760 and it is not what i want and or need i want to be able to play my games from Americas Army to WOW things like that im not a heavy gamer but i do enjoy playing these games can anybody please help me out thank you