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- Feb 18, 2002
OS: Windows 2000 32-Bit
Motherboard: Athlon XP nForce2 chipset Shuttle AN35N Ultra v1.1
*Nothing* is installed except for Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 and DirectX 9.0c. Nothing was changed or touched.
ATI Radeon X1300 AGP will not install.
Earliest Catalyst for the card is 5.12 and it and versions after it give out the following Severe error pop-up when running the Standard Catalyst Setup: INF Error Video Driver Not found
More recent drivers, including the last Catalyst 10.2 for this video card displays the following error: System has determined that the operating system in use is not a 64bit OS and as this Setup is intended for 64bit systems only, Setup will now exit.
Of course the driver is 32-Bit Catalyst.
VisonTek is the brand of ATI Radeon X1300. The driver on its web site also gives out the "not a 64bit OS" error.
[SOLVED, HERE'S HOW:]
Motherboard: Athlon XP nForce2 chipset Shuttle AN35N Ultra v1.1
*Nothing* is installed except for Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 and DirectX 9.0c. Nothing was changed or touched.
ATI Radeon X1300 AGP will not install.
Earliest Catalyst for the card is 5.12 and it and versions after it give out the following Severe error pop-up when running the Standard Catalyst Setup: INF Error Video Driver Not found
More recent drivers, including the last Catalyst 10.2 for this video card displays the following error: System has determined that the operating system in use is not a 64bit OS and as this Setup is intended for 64bit systems only, Setup will now exit.
Of course the driver is 32-Bit Catalyst.
VisonTek is the brand of ATI Radeon X1300. The driver on its web site also gives out the "not a 64bit OS" error.
[SOLVED, HERE'S HOW:]
Good suggestions, I tried changing DevicePath string in registry and I tried dumping drivers into %SystemRoot%\inf however no luck. Maybe I should have rebooted but here is what worked: the man himself redduc900 gave me two words which resolved this problem: Hardware Wizard.
Now the Hardware Wizard doesn't work by itself:
First I installed this shareware: http://www.drivermagician.com/download.htm and backed up the driver from the initial install drive image.
Then I reimaged the full installation and and ran the restore driver feature of that shareware program. It then asked to reboot the system, something I did not do using your suggestions of temporarily changing registry and %SystemRoot%\inf
Now, the driver install still does not work, manual driver install still does not work, however, now that the Driver Magician software "restored" the drivers [I think it just copied them wherever, I don't know what else] this worked:
Windows 2000 Control Panel > System > Hardware TAB > Hardware Wizard > Next > Add/Troubleshoot a device > Next > SELECT Video Controller (VGA Compatible)
*** Do not select Video Controller. Select Video Controller (VGA Compatible) there's two of them, only the (VGA Compatible) one works as described here ***
> Next > Finish > Next > SELECT Display a list of the known drivers... > Next > Display adapters > Next > Have Disk... > Browse... to any driver location, not necessarily the driver location Driver Magician backed up.
And it worked. pfew.
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