Hello there,
I have recently installed Windows 8 64-bit Consumer Preview on my HP m7250n PC. My computer has an ATI Radeon x300 series graphic card and there are no Windows 8 drivers available for it.
I saw a post titled "[GUIDE]How to install Old ATI Radeon Cards on Windows 8" that shows how to install 32-bit drivers. I have tried the same with 64-bit but unfortunately, that doesn't work. I have looked at different tutorials but to no success.
I would highly appreciate it if someone could help me with 64-bit drivers.
But, if it's not possible to have it working for 64-bit, should I switch to 32-bit OS? What would be the disadvantages of 32-bit OS over 64-bit? (I am currently using 32-bit Windows 7 as my main OS on the same machine. I just wanted to switch to a 64-bit OS for an enhanced performance)
Thank you,
Nipun
It works!
Just wanted to say that it works fine now.
I am not sure what the problem was, but I uninstalled the device, and then re-installed the driver.
Everything works fine now!
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I have just installed the new Consumer Preview and love it!
However I have a Nvidia 555M graphics card which uses Nvidia Optimus, with out the nvidia drivers installed the graphics card simply runs on full the whole time but windows only sees the intel graphics chip, as such I can't play games well and still have horrible battery life!
So has anyone got the drivers to install/Optimus working right?
If so how?
having the same problem & graphics card,
according to NVIDIA you can just download the latest win7 drivers, works for some, not for all/always
Kind regards, Jonas
link: forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=224078
(not enough post, so just copy/paste)
edit: make sure you pick the correct bit version, or it will just tell you that it can't find your GPU
edit2: heared rumors about more success without the physx & auto-update; so disable those if you want
eidt3: just to say... working for me now, after several restarts (yesterday it failed after a restart or 2)
jlsjonas said:
having the same problem & graphics card,
according to NVIDIA you can just download the latest win7 drivers, works for some, not for all/always
Kind regards, Jonas
link: forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=224078
(not enough post, so just copy/paste)
edit: make sure you pick the correct bit version, or it will just tell you that it can't find your GPU
edit2: heared rumors about more success without the physx & auto-update; so disable those if you want
eidt3: just to say... working for me now, after several restarts (yesterday it failed after a restart or 2)
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Yup got it working in the end had to install a few times and do a few restarts but its not working so all is good
I installed windows updates ,then installed nvidia 295.73 driver.Stil can't run games on nvidia gpu.Any advices?
System specs:asus x53sv i5-2410m,4gbram,integrated intel hd 3000,nvidia gt540M 1gb.
Can you tell me how can i makew optimus work on windows 8 CP?
I have an ASUS N55SF, and after i install the nvidia latest drivers, it doesn't recognize the nvidia card...
try again
joaolliveira said:
Can you tell me how can i makew optimus work on windows 8 CP?
I have an ASUS N55SF, and after i install the nvidia latest drivers, it doesn't recognize the nvidia card...
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Hey,
try rebooting & re-installing the NVIDIA drivers a few times, it should work.
Also make sure you have the correct version of the drivers (x86 for 32-bit & x64 for 64-bit)
I tried installing windows 7 drivers, but it didn't work for my gt555m. Now that release preview is out, is there another way of making Optimus work?
Install the new verde drivers. There availible on the website and there made for windows 8. Stopped all my crashes and slow games. The newest ones also are supposd to have alotta updates for games
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I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)
oh
The windows phone SDK comes with a complete set of tools, so while installing you can't CHOOSE what you want or not....
You have just 2 options-
1 : Install it with every thing which is present in the SDK.
2 : Maybe after installation TRY to delete/uninstall the phone emulator separately but at first you HAVE to let it install completely.
Hit thanks if you got me..!!
SUDALV said:
I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)
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did you ever find a solution to this? I am having the same issue...
I have a desktop computer about 4 year old, running Windows XP. It has hardware robust enough to run Windows 8. So, I created a bootable usb drive using Windows 7 usb tool in my laptop running Windows 7 HP x64. The usb drive works fine on my laptop, both while booting from it as well as using it while already booted on Win 7 to install Windows 8. But when I insert it to my desktop, and run setup.exe, it shows that setup.exe is not a valid win32 application. And if I boot from it, just shows the Windows 8 logo and does nothing, even if I leave it for a couple of hours, I have purchased Windows 8 for both my pcs but I am not able to install it on my desktop. Help.
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Windows XP 32-bit will likely be unable to start the 64-bit setup.exe file, you'll have to boot the installer from the USB stick or from a DVD.
or use a 32-bit ISO and install a 32-bit version of Windows 8.
As nbates said you can't run apps with different architecture. Make sure you have the right settings set in the BIOS (make the USB device bootable) and install again. I think that there was an app called Wintousb or something like that. That's the best app for making a bootable usb.
EDIT:
WinToFlash, that's how the app is called
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nbates66 said:
Windows XP 32-bit will likely be unable to start the 64-bit setup.exe file, you'll have to boot the installer from the USB stick or from a DVD.
or use a 32-bit ISO and install a 32-bit version of Windows 8.
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Since Windows XP both a 32Bit and a 64Bit version exist. OP therefore should clearly specify which machine have what OS version running...
EDIT:
Another worthwile freeware tool is WiNToBootic - the ultimate Windows Boot Disk Maker
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Since Windows XP both a 32Bit and a 64Bit version exist. OP therefore should clearly specify which machine have what OS version running...
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yeah since XP 64-bit was mostly unpopular i'm assuming they're using 32-bit XP.
cheema1234 said:
hello my name is garry . i have IBM destop with 1 GB ram Intel pentium 4 processor 3.00E GHz (3000.0 MHz) MOTHERBOARD intel 865GV. i was trying to install window 8 pro on this but when i was trying to install on it it shows your system doest support NX compatible .i know what is this but i want just ask can we install window 8 without NX .do u have any solution for this i mean bypass this NX .i have found these error code while installation.Error Code: 0x0000005D
Parameters:
0x0306170A
0x756E6547
0x49656E69
0x6C65746E
please help me
Thanks
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Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-5kVNwPUo4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLGNZ1PNrU
HTH
i have a problem
i had windows 8.1 64-bit in my pc then after that i installed windows 8 32-bit in different partition after that when i reboot my pc i didn't get the dual boot option to choose between windows 8 and 8.1..my system automatically loads windows 8....
Sounds like you didn't do the installation safely with regard to the old OS. The 64-bit one may have been using a 64-bit bootloader? In any case, you may have clobbered the boot partition of the old installation. You can try using bcdedit to add a boot entry for the old OS - it might still work - but you may need top use 64-bit Win8.1 recovery media instead (and doing so you risk clobbering the boot partition for the 32-bit install).
... Do I dare ask why somebody would *do* this? I mean, I could understand if you were installing Win7 or something, and even vaguely understand why you'd install 32-bit instead of 64-bit (though these days I pretty much exclusively use virtual machines for 32-bit systems) but why in the world install 32-bit Win8 on a 64-bit Win8.1 machine??
Ok so I have an HP pavilion DV7-4825DX which.. after 4 years still is better than most of the Notebooks over there. My laptip comes with two gpus: one is from AMD for advanced graphics and the other one is an Intel gpu with less power but better battery friendly. My PC came with Windows 7 Ultimate out of the box and, obviously everything worked fine. Years later I decided to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. I did a clean install and everything worked flawlessly. Same happend to W8.1 and W8.1 update 1 (both with clean installs and manually installed drivers). Then Windows 10 was announced.. I had went to the Windows Insider page and converted me to one of then, then i grab the first build.
This is the first time that I upgrade (not clean installed) Windows. The installation went fine but the screen never turned on after the bootscreen (sounds worked, fingerprint scanner worked etc). Rebooted in safe mode and deleted the graphics drivers from both gpus and then it started. I've installed the AMD graphics and they worked, then I installed the Intel ones and woops! Blackscreen again. Deleted everything and installed the Intel drivers first and worked, then I decided to go with the Amd ones and.... black...screen. So i thought which is more productive to keep? And I keep the AMD ones. But some apps or 3D moddeling programs require the intel processor to work and viceversa, so I turned back to 8.1 Update 1. Now that Microsoft released the "Consumer Preview" kind of version of W10 I've installed it...
.
.
.
Black screen.
Then a screen appeared saying that my PC went back to the last OS because the W10 couldn't be installed. So I had deleted the drivers and reinstalled and now is working only with AMD.
End of the story, the conclussion is that Windows 10 doesn't support switchable graphics anymore and I wrote in the feedback section but I think I'm the only one with this problem so please, people, report it too to get it fixed in the next builds.
Thanks!
I believe it has to do with the WDDM signing, and Windows 10 uses a newer one that AMD has not had any drivers released for.
That or because the new build comes with NT 11 kernel.
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That or because the new build comes with NT 11 kernel.
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Actually it comes with nt10 (10 cos of win 10 who'd a known) and I had 10 when it was first released I had a laptop with Intel hd4000 and gtx 750m and both worked out of the box per say I had to do a little tweaking to get progs to play along sounds like a driver issue you looked for amd beta drivers?
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Ok so I have an HP pavilion DV7-4825DX which.. after 4 years still is better than most of the Notebooks over there. My laptip comes with two gpus: one is from AMD for advanced graphics and the other one is an Intel gpu with less power but better battery friendly. My PC came with Windows 7 Ultimate out of the box and, obviously everything worked fine. Years later I decided to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. I did a clean install and everything worked flawlessly. Same happend to W8.1 and W8.1 update 1 (both with clean installs and manually installed drivers). Then Windows 10 was announced.. I had went to the Windows Insider page and converted me to one of then, then i grab the first build.
This is the first time that I upgrade (not clean installed) Windows. The installation went fine but the screen never turned on after the bootscreen (sounds worked, fingerprint scanner worked etc). Rebooted in safe mode and deleted the graphics drivers from both gpus and then it started. I've installed the AMD graphics and they worked, then I installed the Intel ones and woops! Blackscreen again. Deleted everything and installed the Intel drivers first and worked, then I decided to go with the Amd ones and.... black...screen. So i thought which is more productive to keep? And I keep the AMD ones. But some apps or 3D moddeling programs require the intel processor to work and viceversa, so I turned back to 8.1 Update 1. Now that Microsoft released the "Consumer Preview" kind of version of W10 I've installed it...
.
.
.
Black screen.
Then a screen appeared saying that my PC went back to the last OS because the W10 couldn't be installed. So I had deleted the drivers and reinstalled and now is working only with AMD.
End of the story, the conclussion is that Windows 10 doesn't support switchable graphics anymore and I wrote in the feedback section but I think I'm the only one with this problem so please, people, report it too to get it fixed in the next builds.
Thanks!
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it actually does Support it, i have the same problem on a dell vostro ( core i5 with build in gpu and a nvidia)
before install remove all gpu drivers (even the intel drivers) reboot and after it installed the generic drivers for intel turn of internet connection ( DONT let it install any other grapic drivers)
now without internet upgrade to win 10 , after all is done you can connect to internet and manually install your second grapic drivers.
this worked for me , and yes its a pain in the butt.
ceesheim said:
it actually does Support it, i have the same problem on a dell vostro ( core i5 with build in gpu and a nvidia)
before install remove all gpu drivers (even the intel drivers) reboot and after it installed the generic drivers for intel turn of internet connection ( DONT let it install any other grapic drivers)
now without internet upgrade to win 10 , after all is done you can connect to internet and manually install your second grapic drivers.
this worked for me , and yes its a pain in the butt.
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mmh.. Tried everything without luck, I didn't thought that it might be the solution. I will give it a try! Thanks!