I did try the latest driver from ATI and besides being buggy, it did no
change anything.

Thanks everyone, I will just ignore the Windows Experience Rating.

Al

"David Sanders" <news@nospam.sandersweb.net> wrote in message
news:u7Pb0e6WIHA.4868@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Alfred Kaufmann wrote:
>> The windows experience rating for my machine is 1.0! It is being
>> dragged down by my video card, a Sapphire X1950 Pro with 512MB. The
>> graphics and gaming subscore is 1.0. I thought it might be problems with
>> this video card and I pulled it out and installed an ATI Radeon 850XL
>> with 256MB - same score. I tried the ATI latest drivers and earlier
>> drivers, no change.
>>
>> Everything seems to be working fine. The only thing I can see is an
>> exclamation mark, "! New hardware detected, your Windows Experience Index
>> needs to be refreshed" No matter how many time I refresh this index, I
>> keep getting this message.
>>
>> This is obviously a problem with Vista and not with the video card. Is
>> there a way to correct this problem?
>>
>> Al
>>
>
> It is a problem with the graphics driver. Download updated drivers from
> manufacturers website.