Problem installing Radeon 1400 Drivers - Direct

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I am having problems reinstalling an ATI Radeon 1400's driver into my Dell Inspiron E1505 running windows XP, SP2.

When I try to install the driver from dell, it goes through installation, but then says it cannot continue because DirectX8 is not installed. I then installed Direct X 9.0, because I couldn't find 8.0, but the driver install still does not work.

Strangely, when I go to device manager and click on the ATI radeon 1400, it says the device is working fine and when I try to reinstall driver this way, it says that I have the latest driver.

Does anyone know what might be the problem or how i can check if DirectX is properly installed?

thanks

Last edited by slimsohn; Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am.

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Re: Problem installing Radeon 1400 Drivers - Direct

if everything is working fine why install drivers?
Whatever the reason, have you tried rolling back drivers first, then updating them. that has worked for me in the past.

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Re: Problem installing Radeon 1400 Drivers - Direct

I'm actually having bigger problems than just this driver, here's the full problem that I have:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread120781.html

But I think i've isolated the problem down to the video card driver, so I need to try uninstalling and then reinstalling it. I can't roll back because this was the first driver I put on it, so it says there is nothing to roll back to.

any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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