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    catalyst 10.8 update

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by jasonnam, Sep 2, 2010.

  1. jasonnam

    jasonnam Notebook Geek

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    This may sound stupid but how to I update my g73 from stock driver to catalyst 10.8?

    Thanks in advance :)
     
    jasonnam, Sep 2, 2010
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  2. kaiten

    kaiten Notebook Guru

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    I would recommend that you uninstall the current drivers and catalyst control center. Make sure you do the uninstall and not the uninstall express to just select those, otherwise you will remove other stuff like the HDMI drivers and a couple other things. Also make sure you check your device manager just incase you have other ati drivers installed
     
    kaiten, Sep 2, 2010
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  3. jasonnam

    jasonnam Notebook Geek

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    thanks, but i completly uninstall my stock driver by driver sweeper. Then i started to install the 10.8 but the new driver didn't seem to work, window automatially use its default driver.

    I mean do i need any modifier or some softwares to get 10.8 installed?
     
    jasonnam, Sep 2, 2010
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  4. Clyde_frog

    Clyde_frog Notebook Geek

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    If you go to the ATI website to download the drivers you will have two files you can download:
    - first which is around 70 mb
    - second which is around 2 mb

    The first one is just a control panel for the gpu.
    The second one is a 'download manager' for the actual drivers.

    What you probably did is downloaded and installed the first one, which is not the driver. You want the second (2mb) file. As soon as you install (or unpack) the 2mb file you will be prompted to download the actual gpu drivers.
     
    Clyde_frog, Sep 2, 2010
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  5. Dkumagai

    Dkumagai Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like you downloaded the desktop driver. Try:

    ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver
     
    Dkumagai, Sep 2, 2010
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  6. Almost Tactful

    Almost Tactful Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys, I installed 10.8 and it seemed to work fine but now it is not opening CCC and my 5870 is at a whopping 76*C idle from 50*C, bad install or bad driver?
     
    Almost Tactful, Sep 2, 2010
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  7. iman

    iman Notebook Guru

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    You can download the actual driver directly. Check my sig.
     
    iman, Sep 4, 2010
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  8. iman

    iman Notebook Guru

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    It should be bad install. Try uninstalling all the drivers then reinstall it again.
     
    iman, Sep 4, 2010
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    Rhynoxx Notebook Consultant

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    It probably doesn't matter now but just for reference, it works fine if you do Express uninstall. For me, interestingly enough, when I did Express, it didn't actually remove the display driver. When I booted into safe mode and ran driver sweeper, I used that to clear out the old display driver and any other driver remnants, then I restarted normally and installed 10.8 (which installs everything you got rid of when uninstalling the old driver automatically), and it's been working fine. Now I know exactly how to update to newer drivers without having problems :D
     
    Rhynoxx, Sep 4, 2010
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  10. Anti-N00b

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    Does anyone know how this driver performs on a system not affected by GSOD's such as mine?
     
    Anti-N00b, Sep 4, 2010
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  11. Almost Tactful

    Almost Tactful Notebook Consultant

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    Tried 2 more times, same result for both :( 10.6 seems to be working flawlessly still so I guess I'll stick with it for now.
     
    Almost Tactful, Sep 4, 2010
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  12. seebs

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    Make sure you have the new vBIOS update, because that seems to improve things a lot for Catalyst 10.8.

    (FWIW, I installed the new vBIOS, and then Catalyst 10.8, and all I can comment on is that there's been no crashes yet.)
     
    seebs, Sep 4, 2010
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  13. winfieldblue

    winfieldblue Notebook Guru

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    unstill current drivers, go to this site ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver download option 1, let it download required files, then press install, it wil reboot your comp and ur done.
     
    winfieldblue, Sep 5, 2010
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