ATI RADEON 8500/RADEON 8500LE Driver Download

Immediately following restart, the new display driver wil be loaded for the first time. It will automatically run a series of tests to ensure maximum stability on this system. These tests normally take under one minute to complete.

The test may cause your computer to stop responding. If this happens simply restart the computer at which point the tests will continue normally.

A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS

B) LANGUAGES

C) PRIOR to USING wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

D) USING wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

E) UN-INSTALL wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER

G) CONTACT INFORMATION

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wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

7.72-020524m-004273C-AT

Windows Display Driver for ATI RADEON

June 2002

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A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS

The display driver included in this package is for Microsoft Windows XP. This driver may be used with ATI products based on the RADEON.

ALL-IN-WONDER and VIVO products also require the TV-CAPTURE-WDM driver components that are available for download from the ATI WEB site.

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B) LANGUAGES

wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe contains a display driver with language support for;

English

French

German

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C) PRIOR to USING wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

Be sure to UNINSTALL any previous version of the RADEON display driver prior to installing this version. See the "Un-Install" section for instructions.

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D) USING wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

Overview

There are two phases to the installation of a driver that has been downloaded from the ATI WEB site.

The first phase occurs when you run the wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe program.

This phase creates a temporary directory on the system disk and unpacks all the individual files that make up the ATI software bundle.

In the second phase the ATI SETUP program is launched from the temporary directory created in the first phase. ATI SETUP installs the software (from the temporary directory) into the operating system.

Steps

a) You must download wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe and save it to a directory on your systems hard disk.

For example C:\temp is a common directory used to initially save a file into.

b) Once you have downloaded wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe,

- Close all programs

- Click the START button and select the RUN menu item.

- Click the BROWSE button.

- Browse to the directory where wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe was saved.

- Select wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe and click OK to run the program.

- Follow the instructions on the screen.

! The individual files will be unpacked and placed into a directory on your hard disk. The default path for this directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg\

! After copying the files to the hard disk the INSTALLATION program will launch. You may choose to abort the INSTALL process at this point. (If you abort, no software will be installed into Windows.)

Manual Installation instructions after running wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe

- Start Windows.

- Click the START button.

- Click the RUN menu item.

- Click the BROWSE button. Browse to the directory where the files were unpacked after running wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg.exe. (The default directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg)

- Select SETUP.EXE and press OK.

- Follow the instructions displayed in the help.

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E) UN-INSTALL

To un-install this software;

- Click START, go to SETTINGS and select CONTROL PANEL.

- Launch ADD/REMOVE programs.

- Select "ATI Display Driver" and then click the ADD/REMOVE button.

- RESTART Windows.

To un-install temporary files from the DOWNLOAD bundle;

- Delete the directory C:\ATI\support\wxp-radeon-6-13-10-6094-efg\

NOTE: If you unbundled the files into a different directory, simply delete that directory.

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F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER:

VERSION CONFLICTS

When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Version Conflict" message may appear multiple times during the installation.

If you encounter a "VERSION CONFLICT" message while installing this display driver select the "NO" option to proceed.

* Selecting "NO" will ensure that the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components.

* Selecting "YES" will result in a MIX of new and old driver components, which is undesirable

CONFIRM FILE REPLACE

When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Confirm File Replace" message may appear multiple times during the installation.

If you encounter a "Confirm File Replace" message while installing this display driver select the "YES" option to proceed.

Selecting "YES" will ensure that all the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components.

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G) ATI CONTACT INFORMATION:

ATI WEB site: www.ati.com