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Perry Rhodan

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Posted: Thu, 20th Oct 2011 16:53 Post subject: AMD APU am I being stupid?	Quick Quote Quote

so a friend of mine bought a new pc and asked me to install Windows 7 on it. No problem I said. Haha me and my big mouth. This machine is for internet browsing and office use, no gaming or anything that taxing, so it consists of a Asus F1A55-M LE mobo with 8 GB DDR3 ram and a AMD A4-3300 apu. For those who don't know, this apu is actually a dual core cpu with a third core for graphics. So far so good. Installed W7 no problems, insert the driver cd, install chipset/graphics driver, lan driver, audio was already recognized by windows, didn't need that. Reboot. Check the device manager for unrecognized devices, didn't find any, but i noticed that the video card wasn't any Raden HD stuff type thing but instead just the standart vga device. Needless to say when i checked dxdiag there was absolutely no hw acceleration available, even google earth refused to run in DX mode. Now i tried various other driver versions but to no avail. The only thing i got working was google earth in opengl mode, so that's something i guess. Soo, what am in missing here?

outtanames

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Posted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 02:38 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Sounds weird... try to reinstall the display driver.

Perry Rhodan

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Posted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 09:41 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I did, three times, with uninstall beforehand. Oh yeah, forgot to mention: On the AMD website they have a tool for autodetecting your hardware in case you don't know what driver to use. Needless to say when i started that program it said "Couldn't recognize hardware or operating system" and all i could do is click on OK and stare at the program window where it says Win 7 pro 64 bit in the OS box and only a vendor ID in the detected hardware box. Cool beans!

JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 09:47 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Seems like a entry-level GPU but still a OK model for what you described above. http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A4-3300M-Notebook-Processor.55741.0.html http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6480G.55685.0.html I'll see what I can find about the drivers. EDIT: Well that wasn't easy, maybe try the latest Catalyst drivers? EDIT: There we go. http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx ("Download Drivers" Notebook Graphics -> A Series APU -> A4-33XX M/MX series -> OS) EDIT: Maybe the below link works better. EDIT: Above link leads to Catalyst 11.9 (That was quite a interesting way to reach those - http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx - strange that game.amd.com just links to their auto-detect crap.) (Same as the below link.) EDIT: This is another edit. Last edited by JBeckman on Fri, 21st Oct 2011 10:00; edited 5 times in total

Werelds
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Posted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 09:55 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx Tried those? Should include yours, the GPU is an HD6410D. I'm not sure whether it's an OEM part though, in which case you want the drivers from the ASUS website: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_FM1/F1A55M_LE/#download

Perry Rhodan

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Posted: Fri, 21st Oct 2011 12:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

JBeckman: I see i'm not the only one who's totally confused by the AMD support Also since the apu in that machine is not the m/mx (mobility) version, i'm not sure this will work, but i'm gonna give it a whirl anyway. Werelds: I did try the ones from the Asus site since they were the only ones i could find besides the ones on the motherboard driver cd

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