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    ATI catalyst drivers fail to install on Vaio FW11M

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by grizzlymiller, Feb 2, 2009.

  1. grizzlymiller

    grizzlymiller Newbie

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    Hi all, I have an FW11M which I formatted when I bought it, put on vista ultimate and after a weekend of fiddling, got all of the devices detected with correct drivers installed. Anyway, now I would like to update the graphics drivers to the new ATI 9.1 catalysts except that every time I try, I run the setup, it appears as though it is working and then says installation complete...however, it changes nothing. Device manager still reports the old driver version and the catalyst control centre does not run. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks

    The FW11M has the Radeon HD3470, link:

    http://vaio.sony.co.uk/view/ShowPro..._cons&pageType=Overview&category=VN+FW+Series
     
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  2. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Simple.....AMD/ATI not provide driver support for the mobile cards.They leave it to the OEM builders(Eg:Sony/Dell)

    However you can modify Desktop version to work with mobile card. There's a link on my sigi . Try it. I still haven't got time to upload Catalyst 9.1 modded driver, but you can follow provided link(Driverheaven.com mobility modder) to know how to modify desktop drivers yourself.
     
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    grizzlymiller Newbie

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    That's great I shall check that out now! Thanks very much :)
     
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    Wolf04 Sony Fanatic

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    Wolf04, Feb 2, 2009
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