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Solurins · Nov 13, 2012, 12:17 AM

@ DRDNA & Batou1986

Thanks-you both for your interest in my issue and your advice is much appreciated.
I do however have a few points and a few questions:

1. DRDNA: A system restore simply isn’t feasible at this time as I installed CCC + driver (part of HP’s SoftPaq sp45261) originally in early 2010. Reverting the computer back to that state would be a disaster for my work as I have too many things going on, on this computer at this time i.e. programming projects in Visual Studio, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008, etc. I cannot afford (for my job’s sake to have this computer out of commission or risk losing the functionality of a project and/or losing software configurations  anyone who ever configured SQL Server or tweaked IIS knows how hard and complicated it can be and I am not reliving that again, lol). In other circumstances, it is a great idea, just not practical for me right now.

2. DRDNA & Batou1986: Okay so according to the release notes from AMD concerning CCC 12.6 it does support AMD Mobility Product Families just not the HD 4200 Series (or maybe they forgot to include it in the list). If you guys know something about this please tell me and also keep in mind that I wasn’t even able to install CCC 12.4, 10.6, 9.X and many other versions because the installer simply will not write in the c:\Program Files\ATI Technologies folder, which is where, I assume, the Catalyst/HydraVision files should get installed in.
I’m going to keep going with Black Panther’s plan for now and if his idea fails, I will surely look into doing a clean install of CCC 12.6, who knows, maybe it will work.

Nov 13, 2012, 12:17 AM	#6
Solurins Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 5 (0.03/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My replies don't show up... @ DRDNA & Batou1986 Thanks-you both for your interest in my issue and your advice is much appreciated. I do however have a few points and a few questions: 1. DRDNA: A system restore simply isn’t feasible at this time as I installed CCC + driver (part of HP’s SoftPaq sp45261) originally in early 2010. Reverting the computer back to that state would be a disaster for my work as I have too many things going on, on this computer at this time i.e. programming projects in Visual Studio, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008, etc. I cannot afford (for my job’s sake to have this computer out of commission or risk losing the functionality of a project and/or losing software configurations  anyone who ever configured SQL Server or tweaked IIS knows how hard and complicated it can be and I am not reliving that again, lol). In other circumstances, it is a great idea, just not practical for me right now. 2. DRDNA & Batou1986: Okay so according to the release notes from AMD concerning CCC 12.6 it does support AMD Mobility Product Families just not the HD 4200 Series (or maybe they forgot to include it in the list). If you guys know something about this please tell me and also keep in mind that I wasn’t even able to install CCC 12.4, 10.6, 9.X and many other versions because the installer simply will not write in the c:\Program Files\ATI Technologies folder, which is where, I assume, the Catalyst/HydraVision files should get installed in. I’m going to keep going with Black Panther’s plan for now and if his idea fails, I will surely look into doing a clean install of CCC 12.6, who knows, maybe it will work.