Is it necessary to remove older drivers

[Zach1928]

I have a radeon 4350 in my current system, and a 4850 is coming in the mail soon this week. Before I put the card in, she I go through device manager and remove the drivers for the 4350, or just let windows figure it out?

Thanks

 

[windude99]

I have a radeon 4350 in my current system, and a 4850 is coming in the mail soon this week. Before I put the card in, she I go through device manager and remove the drivers for the 4350, or just let windows figure it out?

Thanks

Yes, you should, but be sure to do this in Safe Mode. Then, install the new drivers in normal mode.

 

[Alsisgevat]

I agree with Windude, but would just like to add, it is usually a good idea to do a fresh quick format, then when the pc starts new, it will be allot easier to install drivers needed. But this is just what I prefer to do,and isnt a must. Secondly, when your new card comes,dont install the driver of the cd,get The latest one off their site,the links are on the forum aswell.

 

[Zach1928]

Cool. Out of curiosity, what's the benefit removing the drivers while in safe mode?

 

[Alsisgevat]

Not exactly sure,hope someone allse can give you a better idea,but as far as I know a normal controll panel un-installation leave's traces in the registry and fragments, a safe mode uninstall is safer,cleaner and way more effective.

 

[MrNeeds]

Sorry to barge the party but no, it's not neccesary to remove older drivers, the only reason to remove them is to save space, that's all, i've done some extensive research on this in the past and there is no evidence to prove that non removal of old drivers interferes with newer drivers.

 

[python134r]

Sorry to barge the party but no, it's not neccesary to remove older drivers, the only reason to remove them is to save space, that's all, i've done some extensive research on this in the past and there is no evidence to prove that non removal of old drivers interferes with newer drivers.

I have to disagree, although it seems like it should not interfere, I have seen numerous times over the last decade where remnants of old drivers somehow interfered with the newer drivers and generated errors. Once the remnants were removed said erros disappeard. In my experience when I took the time to remove all remnants of older drivers regardless of platform [AMD vrs. Nvidia] there are much less incidences of generated errors.

 

[Zach1928]

Ok, so when I go into safe mode and uninstall the drivers through device manager, I'll still have a picture on the screen correct?

 

[karlsnooks]

I have a radeon 4350 in my current system, and a 4850 is coming in the mail soon this week. Before I put the card in, she I go through device manager and remove the drivers for the 4350, or just let windows figure it out?

Thanks

Just let Windows figure it out.

Do NOT try to "help" windows.

 

[DavidE]

No matter which approach you use from the suggestions you have been given,
do you have and use any type of Backup/Restore strategy?

Before i make any significant system changes I make sure I have backups created so I can restore if needed.
I create a System Image Backup, and a Restore Point.

I see many threads in the forum where a user does not have System Restore enabled, and does not use System Backup Imaging.
All to often this eventually seems to end up requiring an OS re-install or OEM factory recovery.

I prefer to restore a system in < 30 minutes, rather than having to start over with a clean OS re-install.

 

[Zach1928]

I do, the computer is on a schedule to back up on a network drive

 

[Zach1928]

Ok everyone, I opened another thread in the GPU section but I may get better results here. I installed the card, everything turns on fine and dandy. But the darn video driver refuses to install. CCC is there but won't open, and trying to install the driver through device manager or custom settings in the amd installer produce no results. I did however dig
Up the disc from the 4350 with CCC version 9.6. My best guess right now is to uninstall CCC and then reinstall it off of the disc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Alsisgevat]

Yup,do that, but did you get the latest driver for your card of the web first?

 

[Zach1928]

Yah I put the 4850 in and went to the website but it refuses to install the video drivers

 

[Alsisgevat]

Can you post what it says,an error code? Error messige? Did you completely remove all the previous drivers?

 

[Zach1928]

Well when I install through ati, it simply says there was an error. And when I go into device manager and click update, it says "data error (cyclic
Redundancy check)"

 

[Zach1928]

And on a side note, I didn't remove all at first but after I put the new card in I did. And I've also run driver sweeper twice

 

[Alsisgevat]

Mmm, okay what I would do is format. But you can try to go into device maniger,and see if your card is listed,if it is,then uninstall all the drivers from it. After this,go into windows update and let it update the card for you, then After this, install ccc.

Or try installing only ati without the extra's or catalyst, if this works,then install catalyst after downloading it separatly.

If this still doesnt work remove the card, gointo safe mode, enabling only basic settings,and removing all things related to your old card and also direct x and vc drivers. Then shutdown, install the card and install drivers of the disk.

And if all else fails format. But first try some easy stuff as in installing an older driver, or the previous reliece driver.

 

[Zach1928]

Ok sweet, right now I'm copying all of my files over to an external drive. And I was doing some looking and it said that a cyclic redundancy check means there's a bad sector/file on the drive so I'm going to run chkdsk as
Soon as everything is copied

 

[Alsisgevat]

Goodluck. Personally I Never install a new hardwar(gpu/cpu) without a fresh format. Then you know its as clean install as can be. Let me know what happens after disk check.