Not the car or truck driver, am talking about the Video driver on my sweet little Acer Ferrari 1100, ya some might ask me when did you buy that, ohh ya that was a secret operation a couple of months ago, when i was browsing and accidentally glanced at a site that was more than happy to sell it at 500GBP, before the thought signals could get processed in my brain cells, my hands were quick to click the buy button, 500GBP for that cute little machine is a steal.
This was a secret mission, my friends already call me a spender, so it went under the covers, what the heck , you earn to spend, isn’t it?
Ok, so installed Win7 when it came out and it installed the drivers and all was fine, but still had some nagging issues with the video driver, I knew something was not right, i put her to sleep, and then wake her up, her LCD face would dance in a thousand colours, and the only way to bring her back to mood is to press her magic re-start button, sometimes everything would be fine, except that the LCD chooses to stay black after resuming from a hibernate session, so back to the magic button again.
Video Card : ATI Radeon X1200 on an AMD X2 64 bit.
Yesterday happened to search for the issue again, and stumbled upon this forum where there were many with the similar issues,
Downloaded “DriverCleaner“, a very good tool to uninstall any device drivers without any trace, cleaned the Windows default 8.56 ATI driver and then downloaded this new Catalyst Suite from the ATI site, even thou it says its for Vista, it worked perfectly fine in win7.
Everything went fine and got my video back, tried a couple of sleep and hibernate patterns and everything looked more snappier than before, now it resumes faster than before. Looks like a video driver issue seems to have been resolved.
Sometimes, i think , life would be more happier if there can be as easy as a driver re-install or a re-start process to set things on the right track….. is it too much to ask for





