Cannot install video card driver on Acer 722.

Discussion in 'Windows' started by runderekrun, Aug 25, 2011.

  1. runderekrun

    runderekrun

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    Hi,

    I purchased an Acer 722 about a week ago. Cool little netbook. I decided to format and re-install Windows 7 Home Premium from scratch to get rid of all the bloatware and pre-packaged crap that came along with it. Everything went great until:

    The videocard (gpu) driver will not install. I got the official download from the acer page (VGA_AMD_8.802.2.1000_W7x86W7x64_A.zip) and went through the install, restarted and it still was using the default Windows 7 graphics drivers. I tried to use the Radeon website for drivers and nothing there either.

    I can't get these stupid graphic card drivers working! Any ideas??

    Thanks for reading.
     
    runderekrun, Aug 25, 2011
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    I'm assuming you reformatted with Windows 7 64 bit and not 32 bit?
     
    nestone, Aug 25, 2011
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    I'm sorry for not clarifying. This should have been in the original post.

    It came with 64 bit Windows 7. I formatted and installed 32 bit Windows 7 HP first and I couldn't get the gpu drivers installed. I thought that was the problem so I reformatted again with 64 bit Windows 7 HP and the problem persists.
     
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    Figured it out. For anyone one that is having a similar problem:

    Some of these acers ship with C60 cpu instead of C50. The driver hasn't been released for the C60 yet but you can grab it from your recovery partition.

    Someone posted it at slickdeals.net. Link here.
     
    runderekrun, Aug 25, 2011
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