help with GPU to setup groovymame

[PurpBullets]

I got a janky amd radeon 4350 512mb ddr2 around a year ago to setup groovymame but didnt get around to it until now.
Trying to install the card is not working out though.

Really perplexed as to why its not. Although I dont have much experience with such things.

It came with a disc, but after trying to install with the OEM disc it turns out that disc only supports vista and xp.

So I downloaded the updated drivers for the radeon 4000 series. Upon installing that, it loads the drivers into a folder, it loads the catalyst install manager, but the install manager just tries to install the manager and C++ distributable.

If I use the catalyst installer to "uninstall" it says there is nothing installed.

So then I tried to manually load the 4350 drivers in device manager, (trying mobility, and regular) I can make the driver take over the display, shows no errors. but after the required restart it gives code 43.

I wondered if it needed a power cable, but after research it doesnt, it only needs 20w, and I read confirmation that 220w PSU's can power it. There is an empty header on the board with 2 pins, but it appears that is for a fan, which mine doesnt have installed. So I dont think that is the issue.

Really would rather not have to install windows again. But not sure what else to try.

I could really use some help from some pc gurus. Desperate to have a functional anti-lag mame setup.

Thanks in advance

[orange808]

Do you keep an XP machine? It's possible the card doesn't work. Verifying the card with real XP hardware/software would be a good idea.

There should be a large heatsink or a fan on the card. (It's been a long time since the PC had any "open air" passively cooled cards.) I'm not familiar with your specific card. You should Google a picture and verify.

You don't have to reinstall Windows. You can clean the references to the card drivers out of the registry, but it will take a long time.

What versions of your driver are available? Have you tried all of them?