Sometimes the WEI will ahng due to the registry
having issues. There were sokme threads on it a
while back. Try a search.

Curt

"Alfred Kaufmann" <al.kaufmann@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:A435D263-1C4A-4659-9BD6-0EC787F2AEE7@microsoft.com...
>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.
>