Dual ATI Graphics Cards

Sep 27, 2009

I'm running:

Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.73 GHz

3.5 GB RAM

ATI Raedeon Xpress 200M Chipset

Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit

I have recently installed a ATI Radeon HD 4670 into my computer, I downloaded the latest ATI Catalyst driver from the ATI website and it installed the latest driver for both of the video cards, after it restarted I get this error message in the device manager for the ATI Radeon HD 4670:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)

I checked in the device manager and it says it has the same wddm driver version for both devices, I have tried installing many times but it continues to presist, is this a Windows Vista or ATI issue? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

System Information:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5255/sysinf2.png

Device Manager:

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