Solve : finding drivers for older system still possible??

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Answer» Greetings CH! A little odd for me to ask where to find drivers however i ran into a little issue. I have an older SYSTEM which i have managed to get Windows 8 running on. Its not that bad actually. The only issue im having is trying to locate the ati driver off AMDs website. not sure if www.official-drivers.com can be trusted. the driver im looking for is the ATI radeon Xpress 1100 for Xp and win 8. I cant find it on amds website, as if its too old. The machine im running is an 2005 acer laptop. Acer Aspire 5050-5951 specs AMD turon Tl50 1.6ghz dual core 1gb ram 40gb hdd ati radeon xpress 1100 256mb vram thanks No Win 8 drivers for that Radeon... I would give the Vista drivers a try...good luck...but's that an older system.ok but i cant even find the driver page for that card on atis website. as if it doesnt exist. i do the drop down menu and select notebook graphics> and then a radeon but none there for xpress..It's not a card...it's a chip. Drivers should come from the laptop manuf. site only...not ATI.yes thats true. However its made by ATi. and each time i took the driver from the Acer cite or the computer cite it was old and buggy. unlike atis website its updated to the latest and best. That's irrelevant...you are asking an older PC to do something it wasn't designed to do... And although others here may differ with me the only place for drivers for any laptop /netbook etc should ONLY come from the laptop manuf. because they are customised for the PC... Quote from: comda on October 29, 2013, 07:35:01 PM ok but i cant even find the driver page for that card on atis website. as if it doesnt exist. i do the drop down menu and select notebook graphics> and then a radeon but none there for xpress.. You have to choose Integrated Motherboard Graphics->Radeon Express Series->Radeon Express 1100. It doesn't have Win8 Drivers, but the Windows 7 Drivers should work fine.ok thats what i did BC_programmer. But im having a new issue. At first the driver would install without any issue and then i get this error: Failed to find any installable components! Whats that mean?OK so i got the system driver installed. Did i lot of research and found that catalyst controller was the issue and what i ended up doing was going through my computer> device manager> display adapters> update driver> showing the system which folder it was in. The only other QUESTION i have is this computer is moody. SOMETIMES it will boot up faster then other times. For this setup do you think adding some RAM like 2gb would help? i tried using ready boost and it did NOTHING. The systems runs ok for a 9 year old PC. but id like a tad bit faster. The little netbooks you find with intel atoms compare parts as here AMD Turon at 1.6ghz 512kb Cache 1gb Ram so maybe giving it 2.5GB ram or 3 will help it out. To my amazment it had no issue playing 480p youtube VIDS at 720 it played but had an ocasional stutter im assuming from lack of memory. Let me know. Cause for an internet web browsing machine it doesnt seem that bad. Battery still holds a good 2 hour charge. pretty nice if ya ask me.

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Greetings CH!

A little odd for me to ask where to find drivers however i ran into a little issue. I have an older SYSTEM which i have managed to get Windows 8 running on. Its not that bad actually. The only issue im having is trying to locate the ati driver off AMDs website. not sure if
www.official-drivers.com can be trusted. the driver im looking for is the ATI radeon Xpress 1100 for Xp and win 8. I cant find it on amds website, as if its too old. The machine im running is an 2005 acer laptop. Acer Aspire 5050-5951

specs
AMD turon Tl50 1.6ghz dual core
1gb ram
40gb hdd
ati radeon xpress 1100 256mb vram

thanks No Win 8 drivers for that Radeon...
I would give the Vista drivers a try...good luck...but's that an older system.ok but i cant even find the driver page for that card on atis website. as if it doesnt exist. i do the drop down menu and select notebook graphics> and then a radeon but none there for xpress..It's not a card...it's a chip.
Drivers should come from the laptop manuf. site only...not ATI.yes thats true. However its made by ATi. and each time i took the driver from the Acer cite or the computer cite it was old and buggy. unlike atis website its updated to the latest and best.
That's irrelevant...you are asking an older PC to do something it wasn't designed to do...
And although others here may differ with me the only place for drivers for any laptop /netbook etc should ONLY come from the laptop manuf. because they are customised for the PC...
Quote from: comda on October 29, 2013, 07:35:01 PM

ok but i cant even find the driver page for that card on atis website. as if it doesnt exist. i do the drop down menu and select notebook graphics> and then a radeon but none there for xpress..

You have to choose Integrated Motherboard Graphics->Radeon Express Series->Radeon Express 1100. It doesn't have Win8 Drivers, but the Windows 7 Drivers should work fine.ok thats what i did BC_programmer. But im having a new issue. At first the driver would install without any issue and then i get this error:

Failed to find any installable components!

Whats that mean?OK so i got the system driver installed. Did i lot of research and found that catalyst controller was the issue and what i ended up doing was going through my computer> device manager> display adapters> update driver> showing the system which folder it was in.

The only other QUESTION i have is this computer is moody. SOMETIMES it will boot up faster then other times. For this setup do you think adding some RAM like 2gb would help? i tried using ready boost and it did NOTHING. The systems runs ok for a 9 year old PC. but id like a tad bit faster. The little netbooks you find with intel atoms compare parts as here

AMD Turon at 1.6ghz 512kb Cache
1gb Ram

so maybe giving it 2.5GB ram or 3 will help it out. To my amazment it had no issue playing 480p youtube VIDS at 720 it played but had an ocasional stutter im assuming from lack of memory. Let me know. Cause for an internet web browsing machine it doesnt seem that bad. Battery still holds a good 2 hour charge. pretty nice if ya ask me.

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