New Drivers = broken

NO LIFE · Sep 25, 2003

SO, today I went to upgrade my 9800 to the new cat 3.7s. I did the usually add/remove ATI driver and then deleted all the remaining ATI folders. Just like I always do. I restarted my computer and went to install the new driver. It opened, unpacked itself, got ready to install then I get an error...it goes like this:

Error extracting support files: The directory or file cannot be created

WTF?? So I delete the files it unpacked and try again. Same error. I delete the unpacked file again, delete all my ati related driver files and try again. Same error. I then delete the unpacked files once more and decide the try out the old 3.6s. Same error.

What happened??

Thanks.

durrem · Sep 25, 2003

Hmm, there may be some junk in the c:\windows\temp directory. You could try cleaning that out. I had a problem installing a winmodem on someone's computer because drivers left over from the previous, dead winmodem in that directory.

NO LIFE · Sep 25, 2003

Is it ok to just delete eveything in my windows/temp folder? Or is there something I should be looking for?

durrem · Sep 25, 2003

It should be ok. When I was trying to resolve the modem problem the support guy just said to delete everything, like it was nothing. I just did a quick Yahoo search and the only thing is that you should reboot first. I don't know if this will fix your problem, though. Just something to try...

NO LIFE · Sep 25, 2003

Damn. It didnt work. This isnt cool.

Oni · Sep 25, 2003

Sounds like they're corrupted. Try re-downloading them.

NO LIFE · Sep 25, 2003

I did 3 times.......twice from guru3d and once from ATI.

Timmybighands · Sep 25, 2003

this is terrible. I dont know what to say to you but IM SORRY.

CamH · Sep 26, 2003

Try to use the Omega drivers, maybe? Bad times.

dreammmatt · Sep 26, 2003

umm...can one of us send u the unpacked stuff? can u execute the install from that stuff?

El<(')>Maxi · Sep 26, 2003

Sounds like an error in the self extracting program. Did you change the default folder that the files extract to by chance?

Also, try Driver Cleaner

http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/

Maxi

funnyperson1 · Sep 26, 2003

try the omegas

durrem · Sep 26, 2003

If the omegas don't work, it might just be time to do a clean reinstall of windows. Need to do that once in a while anyway...

NO LIFE · Sep 26, 2003

Yay!!!! Omega worked!!

OC forums rox0r my box0rz. Thanks guys!

PS-will there be a performance difference between these omegas and the cat 3.7s?

Supertrucker · Sep 26, 2003

omegas = optimized for gaming iq, you may get better marks with the cats, but in a game it would be an un-noticable performance loss for what is supposed to be more stable driver with better iq

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