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    Acer 7741G ATI 5650 driver problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jpinks, Dec 17, 2010.

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    jpinks Notebook Geek

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    I did the usual uninstalled the existing driver, booted to safemode and ran driver sweeper removed all the ATI crap, then rebooted ran the CCC install for 10.11 drivers and it says it wont install some error. Tried 4 times now. Is there a new trick to update the graphics drivers I am not aware of???

    Laptop is a Acer Aspire 7741G-3647. Core I5 2.4, 4 gig of ram.
     
    jpinks, Dec 17, 2010
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    Don't use driver sweaper. You are downloading the mobile set right?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 17, 2010
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    Yes I downloaded the mobility drivers. It keeps trying to tell me I have an unsupported video card or some such

    Why not use driver sweeper??
     
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    Any hints or other ideas guys???
     
    jpinks, Dec 19, 2010
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Does it have switchable graphics?
     
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    Not that it shows in Device Manager. All it shows is the 5650 no intel graphics shown there.
     
    jpinks, Dec 22, 2010
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    You can try to install the default driver that your notebook was shipped with and then update to the most recent one from ATI- it seems to help in most cases.
    If it doesn't you may also install manually via device manager/ update driver and browse to C:\ATI\Support\10-12_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF

    There's no reason to use driver sweeper- Terry Makedon who is in charge of Catalyst answered this question several times- just install on top of the old ones.
     
    downloads, Dec 22, 2010
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