My day:

1. Recieve ATi Radeon on the mail, which I order from an American web site, because Ati, although being based in Thornhill (Near Toronto Ontario) only ships to the US from it's web site.

2. Make the mistake of not totally uninstalling my old drivers. Damn, I though going to devices and hitting remove device would be enough, but no...stupid registry is still set to load the drivers, resulting in a really f***ed up screen.

3. Finally figure out how to diable all drivers, and get the Radeon working. well..

4.Advanced propertys freezes whenever I hit the openGL tab. Ohh! Ati recommends updated VIA chipset drivers. That seems to have fixed it - but:

5. Some file (can't remember what is was..a DLL) can't be located by several programs, seems like an imprtant file. I reboot.

6. DDhelp.exe is now causing an exception whenever I try to run something. I can't fix it. I install windows overtop of my current installation to try and fix it..nope.

7. Jump to DOS - I move about 4 gigs of files that I want to keep to another partition, Set C: to 600 MB, Create a new 7 gig partition, format them...

8. Install windows, various drivers, d/l ICQ, and other utils/apps ... occasional registry checker error - Registery checker likes to reboot and restore a registery that thinks I have no drivers loaded - I learn to hit end task whenever registry checker bitches..

Now that I only have a 600MB drive C, if this happens again I can easily wipe it and reinstall, then load my back-up registry - should save a lot of time. I don't know why windows doesn't have a set up like this in the first place? Though I would recommend about 1000k for C. I have my Program Files folder and my swap on another drive.
C is just the WINDOWS directory more or less.

Oh and the ATI demo is one big self extracting CAB that fails the CRC check..neat
Still haven't been able to test the card beyond browsing the web, gonna d/l the Madonion demo now...

if it crashes just run ghost and re image the boxen.

i am a computer network tech at HCCS <a community college> and without ghost, we'd be screwed!!

I love that thing...without it, my job would be unbearable.

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And Happyfish: FYI, I have owned several ATI cards and have found they all have one thing in common: buggy drivers. About 6 months from now, they'll probably release a driverset for the radeon that will be mostly stable, but until then, all you can do is keep checking the updates page. All in all though, it's good hardware.

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And as for Ghost, it's saved me a few hours of boringness a few times.

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They have cats in the future?

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