xp display problems

I recently uninstalled sp2 due to a number of problems. In the process, my video drivers were lost. When I tried to reinstall, the installer told me I had to install my monitor drivers first. the monitor drivers won't install either, and my device manager shows no catagory for a monitor. I removed the video card and connected my monitor to the onboard video connection on my mobo. no change. New hardware wizard doesn't find it. How do I get my system to recognize my monitor so I can install the drivers?

 

Sounds like an ATI Radeon card you have? If so the easiest solution would be to download the latest Catalyst drivers for it.
http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/features.html

 

Thanks for your response, Mc Tavish. Yes, it's a radeon. I just downloaded the driver, but will it work if windows doesn't recognize my monitor?

 

Yes, the new drivers fix that old problem.

 

I just tried to install the Catalyst drivers, The process was interrupted with the following: "Setup was unable to complete the installation. Try to set up your display adapter with a standard vga driver before running setup ". I'm stumped!

 

Did you get the latest drivers? I've not had that problem with the new ones.
The first ones on this page
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

Oh wait a min, perhaps not having SP2 has something to do with it.

Sorry, that link does not take you directly there, click your way through to the Radeon, ver 5.6 drivers, dated 06/09/05

 

After several hours of clicking around, I discovered that some of my mobo drivers also needed to be reinstalled. once that was done, windows recognized my monitor, and I was able to proceed. Thank you for your help.

 

thanks alot too.
been searching high and low from search engine.
cannot be slove until found yr thread.
Is my mobo software problem
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