ATI Driver Shenanigans

[Fortune]

So I have an ATI Radeon HD 5570 that I bought some time ago, and after having to reinstall my Windows I've had this issue where my drivers install (Usually with an error message, but it seems almost random) and apparently work fine; assuming I don't restart the computer.

If I restart my computer, an error message pops up on startup that tells me that no AMD Device is installed. Although the monitor is hooked up to my graphics card, it refuses to acknowledge its existence until I uninstall and then reinstall the drivers, at which point they once again install with an error message and work without a hitch.

It takes like 4 minutes to uninstall the ATI Catalyst drivers and install them, but it has been fairly annoying to have to do every time I restart my computer. I've tried quite a few solutions, including virtually every driver ATI has put out in the past century. I've used programs to clean my driver registry, then installed the drivers without error message; nevertheless when I restarted I was right back to square one.

I think it has to do with my Windows installation, which was troublesome but seemingly functional: I still have the option to continue the "Windows XP Setup" everytime I boot, to the point that if I don't key away from it and run XP Professional it will try and install XP, retardedly.

Any idea how I might go about not having to reinstall my drivers on a constant basis? Many thanks in advance.

[D3matt]

Have you tried continuing your windows XP setup?

[Fortune]

The setup is a terminal endeavor, and will never finish.

I'm considering just going out and finally updating to a more recent version of Windows, since I can't simply install another version of XP since my version is apparently the most recent and 'can't' be updated. But I'd reaaaaally like to not have to do that, because I'm pretty set in my XP ways.

[kow_ciller]

Get a more modern OS man. XP had its time. If you're a student or know someone who is, you can upgrade to win7 for $60 through microsoft.

[Fortune]

Originally Posted by kow_ciller

Get a more modern OS man. XP had its time. If you're a student or know someone who is, you can upgrade to win7 for $60 through microsoft.

Send me $60?

It worked perfectly fine before, and the things I do with my computer (Looking at porn, watching NFL highlights, playing Moviebattles 2, Photoshopping pictures of myself and posting witty comments on this forum) I have literally no need to waste $60 on so it'll look prettier and be more capable of doing things I don't even have time to do. Furthermore, I have real-people things to spend money on, like bills, college, and alcohol.

Hell, if I could do any of those things on Windows 98, I'd be perfectly happy to still use it.

Any method of simply fooling my windows into installing an older version?

[D3matt]

If the setup process never finishes, you're doing something wrong. It sounds stupid, but is the installation disk still in the drive?

[Fortune]

If I remember correctly I was attempting to install Windows on the larger of my two hard drives. I assume my disc is damaged, because the setup literally just loads up and then restarts, destined to loop for all eternity if I press nothing.