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My brother recently got his PC fixed (burnt Motherboard) and he got a new Graphics Card FOR FREE! its a ATI RADEON HD 4670 and I have an ATI RADEON x1550 And Seeing that He Doesn't HaveAny High end Graphic Games or Whatever,He Agreed to Swap With me...Could Anyone Guide me through the Process?? And Can someone please give me a link to the software i need to install on his PC for the Graphics card to work(the CD That comes with the Graphics Card),because i looked around the website for quite long but was totally lost..THANK YOU!
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Take the card out and put the new one in. Clean drivers in safe mode and install newest drivers.
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Take the card out and put the new one in. Clean drivers in safe mode and install newest drivers.
How do i uninstall the Drivers?

and do you have a link for the x1550 Drives?
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firstly go into the control panal and go into add/remove programs.

next, find your ati drivers and uninstall them from there.

following this, reboot the pc and go into safe mode and run the driver sweeper program. (google it)

after this close the pc down and switch the graphics cards over.

Once you have done this, boot the pc up.

Either insert the driver disk that came with the card or go on the internet and download the latest drivers.

Install them

Then after you have done this, simply reboot and enjoy.

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How do i uninstall the Drivers?

and do you have a link for the x1550 Drives?
http://driverscollection.com/?H=Radeon%20X1550&By=ATI

Install driver sweeper or driver cleaner or something like that, and boot up in safe mode, wipe the ATi drivers.

Edit: uninstalling them in the control panel would help(before you go into safe mode), make it go smoother.
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firstly go into the control panal and go into add/remove programs.

next, find your ati drivers and uninstall them from there.

following this, reboot the pc and go into safe mode and run the driver sweeper program. (google it)

after this close the pc down and switch the graphics cards over.

Once you have done this, boot the pc up.

Either insert the driver disk that came with the card or go on the internet and download the latest drivers.

Install them

Then after you have done this, simply reboot and enjoy.
thank-you for the detail....rep
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How do i uninstall the Drivers?

and do you have a link for the x1550 Drives?
There's no specific drivers for the x1550...you just download the latest version of Catalyst (there easily found on the AMD/ATI website).
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Would it work if i didnt unustall the old drivers but insteal just Installed the new ones..
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Would it work if i didnt unustall the old drivers but insteal just Installed the new ones..
i think it would be ok, i know you can do that with nvidia cards not sure about ATI though
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Would it work if i didnt unustall the old drivers but insteal just Installed the new ones..
without driver sweeping?

I have done this before but you can easily encounter issues, and is not recommended. It is likely you will encounter issues and have to do it this way in the end so you might aswell cut out the hassle.

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