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Hi,
A clean install is always better than an overwrite.
In Windows XP preferably in Safe Mode, to uninstall a device, you can try:
1. right click on My Computer, click on Properties, Hardware tab, Device Manager button, expand your Display Adapter, right click on the device such as your Matrox Parphelia, click on Uninstall;
2. open your Control Panel, click on Add or Remove Programs, highlight Matrox Parphelia, click on Change/Remove; and/or
3. Click on Start, click on Run, type "regedit", click on Edit, click on Find, type "Matrox", delete entry, press F3, do the same and delete all instances of Matrox.
To install, reboot your PC, insert Matrox driver/installer CD and follow on screen instructions. If it does not auto start, open/explore your CD and click on setup.exe.
Hope that this be of some help/idea. Post back how things turned out or should you need additional information.
Good luck and kind regards.
Comments:
Nov 12, 2007
- Hi again,
Perhaps you would be better of using a downloaded copy of the installer presumably more up to date compared to the CD.
The driver is available
here, expand the + Parhelia Series and select/check the 128 version, click on Next. The next page would be several choices which includes:
1. Latest display drivers - Most recent software to use Matrox graphics hardware
2. Certified display drivers - Display drivers that have undergone extra testing
3. WYSIWYG plug-ins - To use Matrox features with certain third-party software
4. Software and utilities - Software tools for Matrox hardware
5. BIOS - Basic input/output software for Matrox graphics hardware
6. Documentation - Information for Matrox products
I would suggest the "Certified display drivers" since they have been known to be more stable and Windows certified.
Hope this be of further help.
Cheers.
