Forcing WinXP to use Standard VGA display driver

As my HIS ATI Radeon IceQ9800 Pro graphics card is in the process of dying on
me because of a memory fault, I'll shortly need to uninstall its tools etc.
software and driver before replacing the card.

I understand that it's preferable to uninstall the ATI software, and
particularly the driver, with the display driver changed to Standard Windows
VGA. This would obviously be enabled if I were in Safe Mode.

Question - is it possible to force WinXP to use the Standard VGA Mode
Drivers when starting Windows with a normal boot (i.e. before actually
uninstalling the ATI driver & software and re-booting the system) even if it
were inadvisable to do the latter uninstall in other than Safe Mode?

Any advise would be appreciated.

I would have thought that if you used add/remove dialogue to uninstall
graphics software/drivers then on reboot you would be in std vga mode.
Leastways thats how it works with nvidea vid.card drivers.

"Pegleg" <> wrote in message
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> As my HIS ATI Radeon IceQ9800 Pro graphics card is in the process of dying
on
> me because of a memory fault, I'll shortly need to uninstall its tools
etc.
> software and driver before replacing the card.
>
> I understand that it's preferable to uninstall the ATI software, and
> particularly the driver, with the display driver changed to Standard
Windows
> VGA. This would obviously be enabled if I were in Safe Mode.
>
> Question - is it possible to force WinXP to use the Standard VGA Mode
> Drivers when starting Windows with a normal boot (i.e. before actually
> uninstalling the ATI driver & software and re-booting the system) even if
it
> were inadvisable to do the latter uninstall in other than Safe Mode?
>
> Any advise would be appreciated.