[access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

  • From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:43:05 -0000

Hi Andy,

Video and Sound drivers are the two most risky areas where
screen readers are concerned. It's always safer to have
sighted help to hand.

BTW, how much memory do you have in your system, and how
much free hard drive space have you got?  

Likewise, what operating system and version of it?  Does the
system have all the critical updates applied, and have you
checked Windows Update to see what it thinks needs hardware
updates for?

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Collins
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:27 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

Hi George -

This feels a bit scary then, if I listen to some people,
they say "make sure 
all your drivers are up to date" but in the case of the ATI
drivers it sound 
best to leave well alone. I'm trying to sort out this
problem I have when 
trying to rip music cds, or use Windows Media Player, where
my PC keeps 
freezing, and was wondering if the ATI drivers might be
causing the problem?

The scan of my PC for drivers produced an update driver for
my serial bus; 
could installing this create problems too?

These websites recommending an update to drivers make it all
sound so easy, 
but it isn't in reality <smile> -

Andy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please


| Hi Andy,
|
| You don't need to uninstall the old ATI drivers, but I'd
be
| a shade wary about installing new video drivers without
| sighted help to hand. It will most likely break the video
| chain to your screen reader, leaving you without speech,
and
| the necessity to re-install your screen reader.
|
| George.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Collins
| Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:34 PM
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Help with drivers please
|
| Hi all -
|
| I'm pasting my message from yesterday here again, as it
got
| no responce, and
| I'm sure there are people on this list that can help, so
| please do if you
| can, it's always apreciated.
|
| Start of message:
|
| Hi all -
|
| Ok, a scan of my PC tells me that certain drivers need
| updating, and I'm
| trying to understand quite what to do, and what I need to
| download!
|
| When I click on the link from driveragent.com to update
the
| driver, the page
| that comes up says:
|
| "The following packages will provide display drivers and
| capture drivers
| that can be used with various video capture programs."
|
| And then it lists what is in the package, the first thing
| being the display
| driver, is this all I'll need, or will I need the rest of
| the package that
| includes things like 'catalyst control centre' or the 'WDM
| Integrated
| Driver.'
|
| Can I ask too, if I need to uninstall from 'add/remove'
| within the control
| panel, the existing ati drivers that these updates are to
| replace?
|
| Thanks as ever -
|
| Andy
|


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