i screwed up my video card driver.. plz help me

[Razor436]

The story is simple. I use a laptop so i cannot use the drivers that ati releases. I must therefore rely on my laptop's manufacturer for the drivers: in my case Toshiba.

For many months I've been using the Toshiba's latest driver and everything worked well. But one day, I came across a website that contained a program that would allow me to install ati's latest catalyst driver for my video card. Well not surprisingly this new driver did not work on my driver so I reinstalled Toshiba's driver.

Unfortunately, the result is the following: If i try to open a video file like an anime episode, I get the blue screen of death and I am forced to reboot. They say that the problem lies within the ati2dvag.dll file. REinstalling the driver did not work. Reinstalling the player did not work. And the problem occurs for any video player I use.

Anyone have any ideas what to do?
You know that special recovery disk that comes with premade computers... would that correct the problem (without reformatting or deleting any of my precious anime files) ???

[exp]

the recovery disks normally erase ALL files on your harddisk.
so you would probably loose all your data (if you haven't backed it up somewhere).
but it would fix your problem, yeah.

BYe!
EXP

[wahaha]

Anyone have any ideas what to do?

A possible workaround for this problem is to lower the hardware accelleration for the card. Depending on the version of Windows you use, the option is in Control Panel -> System (9x/me) or in Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshooting (2k/xp) [translations guessed].

You could also try to first completely remove the ATI-drivers before reinstalling. For this, you have to boot into safe mode and remove basically all drivers for your graphics-card (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager). To be on the safe side, you could also remove all files related to these drivers from your windows-directories. A list of these files should be available in driver-properties (prior to removing them, of course).
After rebooting, do a clean installation of the original drivers.

[Elberet]

You can try the Omega drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

These drivers are based on the ATI Catalyst driver, but afaik work with ATI's Rage Mobility and mobile versions of ATI's Radeon chipsets even on mobile devices. They also include certain special feautures, such as the RadLinker (a tool to set 3D settings per application) and h/w clock overrides.