ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 SERIES . . .

Only read if your familiar with gaming or your computer savy, lol.

Ok so recently I was playing a game on my computer and the image would lag, after talking with fellow gamers, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do to make my gaming experience better. Thus, I came to driver upgrading/updating which sounded easy, all I had to do was find the driver and update it with a new one.

After some googling I come to find that my graphics card which basically helps display the images for games is called ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 SERIES. So I go to the ATI website and find the Driver's and Downloads page and end up having to pick my systems specifications, which I found in Control Panel/System.

The instructions list then says after downloading the file, go through Add and Remove Software to remove everything that says ATI. Being innocently gullable I proceed, but after uninstalling everything ATI it asks me to restart.

Unfortunately when I restart everything seems fine til I'm left with no image and the sound of the welcome screen to greet me. I restart the computer go into safe mode (F8 during start up) and then access the ATI file I downloaded onto the desktop hopefully reinstalling a new up-to-date display driver, No . The file leaves me in more confusion after telling me in mid-installation that the driver is not compatible with my system. So I sit frustrated.

After endless hours of troubleshooting on google and restarting my computer I still don't know how to really update the driver, but if you atleast want to get it back to normal this is what you do.

Go to Add and Remove Programs make sure you see nothing of ATI .
2nd install the original display driver manufacture file (emachines, compaq)
- to get the manfacture file visit your "computer's" website and search for driver downloads
Once you have the file install it and it should ask you to restart your system.
Do it and your done .

I just bought a new video card as well can't wait to install it myself and see the improvement.