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    WiDi wont connect with AMD Drivers Loaded

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by exocet956, Apr 30, 2011.

  1. exocet956

    exocet956 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have been trying to get my WiDi working and it works fine when the only driver i have installed is the Intel driver. If i have the ati drivers loaded (installed not with the dedicated gpu enabled).

    The issue is when i try to connect to the adapter it flashes a few times but i get "unable to send remote display" error message. It only seems to work when i have no ati driver installed at all.

    I was wondering has anyone else been able to get widi working with gpu switching drivers loaded.

    its starting to tick me off.

    Also i get some weirdness when loading drivers.

    Has anyone else Intel drivers loading when you load ati drivers. Ya i know it sounds weird but i stripped all the drivers off and i was going to load the ati drivers first then try loading the intel drivers and bam after reboot of the ati driver installer i had both the intel and ati drivers loaded.

    When i checked device manager the intel driver provider is listed as ati. If that isn't odd, if you do get the intel drivers loaded either from intel or from dell, i get a solid white screen after the reboot.


    When i say if you get them loaded if you have the ati provide intel drivers loaded and try to install either from intels website or from dell they will say they are incompatible with the hardware. Yet the exact same drivers loaded when the drivers were stripped out.