Photoshop turning to black

I have not had a problem with Photoshop CS4 until yesterday. I saw a message when it opened but closed it (sorry). Either a .jpg or a .gif will make the working area turn black and the image does not appear. It has something to do with the video card - but why now and for what reason. I looked up my Dell Inspiron E1505 video card of an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 and there are no updates availiable to the driver. What do I do now?? Thanks so much.

That is a old chip. ATI is not updating their drivers for that card. According to the ATI website the last update was 4/10/2007. So unless Dell comes up with some drivers there is nothing you can do. You can try turning off Opengl in CS4 to see if that will fix it.
You have XP or Vista?
32 bit or 64 bit?
Anyways, here is a link telling you what drivers to use with XP. I do not see the X1400 listed. Not a good thing.
Oops, here is the link
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonmob_xp.aspx?type=2.4.2&pr oduct=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English

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