"Charles van Doornewaard" <cdoor***@remove.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Recently, I re-installed Windows XP on a new hard disk, followed by the
> drivers for my Hercules Graphical Card. This card uses an ATI-Radeon Chip
> (9500 series). I also installed all updates for Windows XP available up
> until now.
>
> However, I am now having problems with my ATI drivers. For every time I
> re-boot the PC I keep on getting the following error message:
>
> ATI's desktop manager is being unloaded because an ATI display driver is
> not currently running.
> If you have administrator privileges, click "Reset" to revert to the
> default display settings. Select "Cancel" to close this window with no
> changes.
> To permanently remove an installed ATI display driver, use the Add/Remove
> Programs control panel.
>
> I also recently have had difficulties with my flight simulator 2004
> programme, as my system freezes as soon as I have loaded a new "flight"
> file (*.STN). I cannot escape from the impression that my graphical card
> is mal functioning due to the inactivity opf the ATI driver.
>
> But what causes the ATI driver to become inactive? I even re-installed the
> drivers for the graphical card but the error message mentioned above keeps
> on returning on reboot.
>
> Can anybody tell me what the problem is and how the problem has to be
> solved?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Charles J. van Doornewaard
> Amsterdam - The Netherlands.

"ElJerid" <s.vanderhaeg***@pandora.be> wrote in message
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>
> "Charles van Doornewaard" <cdoor***@remove.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:421ad6bd$0$28982$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>> Recently, I re-installed Windows XP on a new hard disk, followed by the
>> drivers for my Hercules Graphical Card. This card uses an ATI-Radeon Chip
>> (9500 series). I also installed all updates for Windows XP available up
>> until now.
>>
>> However, I am now having problems with my ATI drivers. For every time I
>> re-boot the PC I keep on getting the following error message:
>>
>> ATI's desktop manager is being unloaded because an ATI display driver is
>> not currently running.
>> If you have administrator privileges, click "Reset" to revert to the
>> default display settings. Select "Cancel" to close this window with no
>> changes.
>> To permanently remove an installed ATI display driver, use the Add/Remove
>> Programs control panel.
>>
>> I also recently have had difficulties with my flight simulator 2004
>> programme, as my system freezes as soon as I have loaded a new "flight"
>> file (*.STN). I cannot escape from the impression that my graphical card
>> is mal functioning due to the inactivity opf the ATI driver.
>>
>> But what causes the ATI driver to become inactive? I even re-installed
>> the drivers for the graphical card but the error message mentioned above
>> keeps on returning on reboot.
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what the problem is and how the problem has to be
>> solved?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Charles J. van Doornewaard
>> Amsterdam - The Netherlands.
> In Add/Remove Programs, deinstall all ATI software, then in Device
> Manager, remove ALL display adapters.
> Restart your system. Windows will detect the VGA card and ask for a
> driver. Install the DEFAULT Windows driver. When finished, install the
> latest ATI Catalyst software (you can download it from ATI's site) for Win
> 2000. This will replace the standard drivers by the ATI drivers. Check if
> it's ok in the advanced display properties, where you should now find the
> ATI tabs.
>
> Now
>