Ati Mobility driver caught in infinite loop

[vosrosa]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum but I've been having a problem with my sony laptop. I installed the omega ati driver and when i start it up it shows the windows xp progress bar and then it goes blank until it pops up with the blue error page saying 'driver caught in infinite loop.' I haven't been able to install the original sony drivers because i reinstalled with a version of xp i had; something about the sony drivers checking something before they allow install. So if anyone knows what I can do about this, it would be much appreciated.

[rendrag]

can you boot into safe mode maybe and re-install good drivers?

[vosrosa]

But the thing is the only good drivers are in the sony driver packs and it doesn't even recognize that it needs them and exits the install.

[chilifrei64]

Go to Sony's website and download the correct drivers, put them on a disk. boot into vga mode and install the correct drivers

[vosrosa]

Would that get past the sony driver installation checking and saying they won't work for this system? It checks to see if the computer has it (which it does) but it says it doesn't.

[chilifrei64]

if it is a setup type driver installation. it will create a temporary directory somewhere on your computer (each one is different) most likely %userprofile%\local settings\temp

copy the contents and install it manually.

All you really need for most driver installations is the .inf , .sys , .drv and the .cat if it is digitally signed.