Having the amazing ability to read, and an internet connection, I'm sometimes asked to fix people's computers. This can involve reinstalling a OS, troubleshooting weird errors and all that crap.
As a lil backstory, I've helped my cousin's BF by installing XP on his Toshiba Satellite A200-21T lappy cause Vista was burning a hole into his brain.
Recently, my cousin told me her BF was having trouble playing recent games: a blue screen of death showed up every time he tried. I suspected it was a driver problem with the graphic card so i asked her to bring the damn thing here, sure enough, the file causing the error was called ATI something, so indeed that was it.
Here's what was fucked up though, ATI doesn't seem to release drivers for their mobile graphic card models. Toshiba's lappy drivers are fucking 3 years old, which is why i hate laptops to begin with: drivers seem to always suck. And this was a classic example why:
The laptop is a Toshiba, but the graphic card is a ATI, however, neither seem to really support the damn drivers for it. Seems like a common problem for laptops though.
So after doing research, i found out that ATI doesn't really make different drivers for the mobile version of their graphic cards. For example, the drivers for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 are praticly the same save for minor details that identify each card.
Luckly, someone picked up on that and made a tool to do the minor changes so that u can use normal drivers as mobility ones here. Mmm...actually, where's my laptop? i think that one had a ATI card too...
As a lil backstory, I've helped my cousin's BF by installing XP on his Toshiba Satellite A200-21T lappy cause Vista was burning a hole into his brain.
Recently, my cousin told me her BF was having trouble playing recent games: a blue screen of death showed up every time he tried. I suspected it was a driver problem with the graphic card so i asked her to bring the damn thing here, sure enough, the file causing the error was called ATI something, so indeed that was it.
Here's what was fucked up though, ATI doesn't seem to release drivers for their mobile graphic card models. Toshiba's lappy drivers are fucking 3 years old, which is why i hate laptops to begin with: drivers seem to always suck. And this was a classic example why:
The laptop is a Toshiba, but the graphic card is a ATI, however, neither seem to really support the damn drivers for it. Seems like a common problem for laptops though.
So after doing research, i found out that ATI doesn't really make different drivers for the mobile version of their graphic cards. For example, the drivers for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 are praticly the same save for minor details that identify each card.
Luckly, someone picked up on that and made a tool to do the minor changes so that u can use normal drivers as mobility ones here. Mmm...actually, where's my laptop? i think that one had a ATI card too...
I hate ATI. I have had nothing but trouble with them.
ReplyDeletewell, i used to like ATI, but then they were bought by AMD and their driver support became abysmal.
ReplyDeletethis mobile driver thing is annoying, however, means that when they update regular cards u can update your mobile card. so there's always drivers for it, it's a weird blessing in a way.