first, sanko where did you get the test bench?

second, i would like to know the size of marshal + price.

does marshal have switch to off the pcie lane

how to get one?? haha... you msi employee???

hi all,

if i were to buy GTX560 or GTX560-Ti....

Which one is better?

Planning on buying MSI brand GPU.... but may i know the warranty? I mean how to deal with it? Can i directly go to HQ? thanks

PM you?

use ccleaner and driver sweep or something before install new GC driver...

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Added on October 10, 2011, 10:29 pmFrom Internet

The purpose of this post is to be a fail-safe, idiot-proof guide to installing your graphics drivers. There are five so-called "regular" steps that you should always follow when installing new drivers, and I have also included a series of extra steps (in chronological order) for those who have serious driver troubles, and cannot resolve their problems by following the regular uninstallation process. If anybody has suggestions on how I could improve this guide, please share them here. NOTE! I purposely excluded the registry entries/directories/files that are already cleaned by Driver Cleaner in extra steps #1 and #2, and only included entries/directories/files which are not cleaned by Driver Cleaner Pro, my assumption hence being that everyone who follows this guide will use Driver Cleaner Pro to clean out most of the remnants of old Catalyst driver components.

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Before proceeding, please make a System Restore Point using Windows System Restore [Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore] and download and install the following:

CCleaner (Not compulsory, but highly recommended)
Driver Cleaner Professional

Also make sure to have .NET 2.0 at a minimum installed if using Catalyst Control Center.

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Removing old drivers

STEP 1. Navigate to Add/Remove Programs [Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs] and uninstall the ATI Catalyst driver components in the following order. Don't reboot before I tell you to!

1) Catalyst Control Center / Ray Adams ATI Tray Tools
2) ATI Display Driver
3) ATI - Software Uninstall Utility

STEP 2. Reboot your PC and go into Safe Mode when your PC is rebooting, by tapping F8 during the black screen with ~4 or 5 lines of text which comes before the Windows loading screen, and then selecting 'Safe Mode' as the startup type, and 'Windows XP' as the Operating System.

STEP 3. Log on to an administrator account (doesn't matter which one, but I'd suggest you use your own), and once at your desktop, start Driver Cleaner Professional. In the 'Cleaning Selection', tick 'Select multiple cleaning filters' and choose everything starting with "ATI". Then press the "Start" button, and after the program is done cleaning, close it.

STEP 4. Start CCleaner and go to the 'Issues' section. Tick all of the filters, and run the scanner, remembering to create a registry backup when it automatically prompts you to! Run the scanner again as many times as needed until nothing shows up at the screen, creating a registry backup each time. Alternatively, you can use another registry cleaning program if you don't find CCleaner appealing.

(Extra Step 1.) Delete the following files/folders/directories if present:
Code:

C:\Program Files\ATI Multimedia
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies
C:\Program Files\Ray Adams
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati*.*
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\ati*.*
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\ATI
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\ApplicationHistory\cli.exe.c<no spam links>d71.ini
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\ATI
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\atitray

Note #1) ATI*.* refers to any files beginning with "ATI".

Note #2) If you are not sure whether a particular file is an ATI driver component, right-click it, select Properties, and then look at the 'Created' date. If it roughly coincides with the date on which you installed your previous Catalyst Display Driver, it's probably one you should delete.

Note #3) If no files beginning with "ATI" exist in the C:\WINDOWS\system32 or C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers directories, don't worry about it; Driver Cleaner already took care of them.

(Extra Step 2.) Open Registry Editor [Start > Run > Type "regedit" (without the quotes)] and delete the following keys if they exist:
Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ray Adams
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Ray Adams
HKEY_USERS\[user]\Software\ATI
HKEY_USERS\[user]\Software\ATI Technologies
HKEY_USERS\[user]\Software\ATI Technologies Inc.
HKEY_USERS\[user]\SOFTWARE\Ray Adams
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ati HotKey Poller
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ATI Smart
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati2mtaa
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati2mtag
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati2mpab
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atitray
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\R oot\LEGACY_ATITRAY

(Extra Step 3.) Now navigate to your C:\Windows\inf directory, right-click on empty space and select Properties. In the Attributes section, untick "Hidden" such that all files and folders inside the C:\Windows\inf directory are visible. Hit OK. Still in the C:\Windows\inf directory, scroll down until you encounter files entitled "oemxx.inf", where the "xx" -part is any number. Open each one in Notepad, and check which ones contain ATI-related data in them. If in doubt, observe the 'Created' date again. Delete the inf files containing ATI-related data as you find them, making sure to also delete the corresponding .PNF files. NOTE! You will not be able to roll back to your previous driver if you delete the inf files! New inf files are created each time you install a display driver however, so you will not screw anything up by deleting them this one time.

(Extra Step 4.) Now navigate to Device Manager [Start > Settings > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware tab > Device Manager], and make sure that there are no yellow question marks next to items in the "Display adapters" section. If there are, uninstall each item by right-clicking it and selecting "Uninstall".

Step 5. Reboot and install your new driver in normal mode as you usually would.

This post has been edited by kanabalize: Oct 10 2011, 10:29 PM