Updating Drivers

What is the proper method for updating drivers? Specifically the display drivers for the GPU.

I tried to uninstall, used driver sweeper, then rebooted. Then installed new drivers. However drivers did not re-enable the graphics card, so I was stuck with the onboard vga.

In order to fix it, all I could do is to use the old drivers from the disc that came with my laptop.

Btw I have a GX640.

Thanks for any help

 

Where did you get those new drivers ?

Get these ATI

 

Personally, I mostly don't bother with driver sweeper. I trust AMD and Nvidia to be able to handle cleaning things up properly, and almost all the time it works fine. In the event of a problem I can always do it the other way anyway.

 

I gotta agree with that approach. Today's drivers are at the point where they'll completely or at least try to uninstall the previous drivers and registry entries first before installing the newer drivers.

 

I've always removed my drivers my deleting the specific device from Device Manager and checking the "Remove driver software" box that comes up. Then I restart and install the new ones. Don't worry about Windows 7 trying to install the driver automatically. Just cancel it.

 

Tried this but my GX740 is not seeing the 5870 after reboot, only the VGA board. Win 7 never tried to install drivers automatically after reboot.

Installed the 10.5 Catalyst drivers but after install says it cannot run with the GPU. My prior experience is with XP & Nvidia. Never a problem with driver updates. What am I missing?

 

Are you sure you're using the mobility drivers? (Sounds like I'm being snotty but really A LOT of us screw that up the first time)

 

I wouldn't doubt if this is the issue.. at least I hope it is.

Edit: Yup. I wasn't using the mobility drivers. THANK YOU!

 

It sounds like you're not using the right kind of driver. This used to happen to me with my NVIDIA GPU when I downloaded non-official drivers.

 

Ok I correctly installed the new drivers/CCC. I also updated the vbios to the beta and have confirmed its success with GPU-Z.

I still cannot come back from sleep mode.

Anything else I can try?

 

Can you monitor your video card's clock speeds to see what clock speeds it goes to when idle, and (more importantly) when the screen turns off?

I'm 99% sure that the sleep issue is caused by PowerPlay downclocking the card to 100/1000 whenever the screen is off. You can test this by enabling PowerPlay and using GPU-Z to monitor your clock speeds.

 

It's not so much when the screen turns off, it's when it goes into sleep mode.

How do I use GPU-Z to monitor my clock speeds when the monitor is off?

 

What's in the link above is a downloader and not the driver itself , you have to go through it to get the latest drivers.

 

I must have been tired Download and installed okay now. Thanks.