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    Need Help with Aspire 5515 ATI Video Driver

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by juanathon, May 7, 2009.

  1. juanathon

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    Hey Everyone...

    I'm hoping that I'm overlooking something basic, but I can't get my video straightened out.

    I have one of the WallyWorld Acer Aspire 5515's.
    In an effort to avoid all the junk preloaded I wanted to install my stand alone upgrade XP copy, and searched Google for info and found my way here.
    I followed along with a previous post (FreeHeart4Sale's advice & Drivers) concerning installing XP.

    Everything worked very well and was mostly straight forward, except when I try to install the "Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 graphics (display drivers exact match)" executable...the install fails and I get A "Severe" error which says:

    Setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system. Setup will now exit."

    Am I missing something here?
    The "FreeHeart4Sale" supplied driver seems to work fine for everyone else...

    I've tried to let windows find it's own online through Device Manager and it doesn't pick up anything either. The VGA video listing in Device Manager has a Yellow "?" indicating a problem.

    I'm really happy with this machine and would hate to have to use Vista.
    Any help would be very much appreciated...Thanks in Advance.

    ~juanathon
     
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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