Need a Tech Guy help.

[Mailamea]

I recently uncovered my Laptop "HP Compaq 511" stashed in the back room older laptop. It house a "ATI Mobility HD 4330" which is enough to run skyrim on medium 20fps and other optimized modern games on medium 30 fps.

 

However when I formated to Windows 8.1 x86 since it only houses 2gb of ram.

 

The graphics card turned into Basic Windows Display Driver, so I grabbed "Graphics Driver ATI 13-4 Legacy" but when installing it the Installer crashes, i found out that it crashed because it doesnt detect my laptop as compatible with it, more seriously it doesnt detect my graphics card at all.

 

Any help or ideas?

 

Please, thank you very much.

[MajinCry]

You probably downloaded the x64 version of the driver.

[Mailamea]

You probably downloaded the x64 version of the driver.

[bjornk]

Looks like Legacy 13.4 is a beta driver. Have you tried non-beta 13.1?

[Mailamea]

Looks like Legacy 13.4 is a beta driver. Have you tried non-beta 13.1?

[kingkong]

if you are sure  that your driver is ati 4330  did you try to force install it manually  just the driver first

[MajinCry]

Oh, right. It's a laptop.

 

Whenever I installed the official drivers fer anything, I'd get all sorts of buggery with my Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15", specially with the Intel iGPU. Had to install ancient OEM shiznit fer the doozey.

 

Try nabbing the GPU drivers from here. http://www.getdriver.com/notebook/hp-compaq/331/compaq-511-windows-7-drivers-x86-32-bit.html

[Mailamea]

if you are sure  that your driver is ati 4330  did you try to force install it manually  just the driver first

[Mailamea]

Another add on is when I install it when I delete the basic addapter driver windows 8 gives , and when i attach a monitor it installs but only a kb and the install log only displays final status success size 20mb and blank field.

 

EDIT: connecting the laptop to another monitor doesnt project my desktop to it, when i go in the project option theres a notice please install driver to use dual monitor, is it possible that the onboard ATI Graphics is broke? thats why its using the onboard basic display driver?

[kingkong]

no not cmd  :   w8 you go to the bottom left side  a purple square appear  and you  right click on it .   in pop up  you select the peripherics ,  a window  pops and all the hard is mentioned   you select the videocard  , right click  on it.  it gives you the options.

[Mailamea]

no not cmd  :   w8 you go to the bottom left side  a purple square appear  and you  right click on it .   in pop up  you select the peripherics ,  a window  pops and all the hard is mentioned   you select the videocard  , right click  on it.  it gives you the options.

[kingkong]

yes  device manager    (sorry could not say it in proper English)

 

i do not think it is broken  but i can not tell from distance.

 

it installed only the kb  because you do not have the files. inf  (drivers) 

 

also  a probable thing  is you might need to update the bios  (read   carefully   before doing anything with the bios)

[Mailamea]

yes  device manager    (sorry could not say it in proper English)

 

i do not think it is broken  but i can not tell from distance.

 

it installed only the kb  because you do not have the files. inf  (drivers) 

 

also  a probable thing  is you might need to update the bios  (read   carefully   before doing anything with the bios)

[kingkong]

http://www.toshibadriversupdateutility.com/drivers_HP_(Hewlett-Packard)-Compaq-511-Base-Model_Bios_Windows-7.html

i found this it might be verry usefull      just choose on the right  your correct Windows .

[didimelo100]

Maybe you can try this ones:

http://drp.su/drivers/notebooks/?v=HP&m=Compaq%20511&id=43423&l=en

[bjornk]

Have you tried using this utility? Does it also fail to detect your GPU?
 
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
 

Also,

Some instructions on how to manually install display drivers on Windows 8,
What Do I Do If Windows 8 Won't Detect My Graphics Card?
 

You might want to give this a try in order to completely remove previous drivers.
Display Driver Uninstaller

[Xeraser]

I recently uncovered my Laptop "HP Compaq 511" stashed in the back room older laptop. It house a "ATI Mobility HD 4330" which is enough to run skyrim on medium 20fps and other optimized modern games on medium 30 fps.

 

However when I formated to Windows 8.1 x86 since it only houses 2gb of ram.

 

The graphics card turned into Basic Windows Display Driver, so I grabbed "Graphics Driver ATI 13-4 Legacy" but when installing it the Installer crashes, i found out that it crashed because it doesnt detect my laptop as compatible with it, more seriously it doesnt detect my graphics card at all.

 

Any help or ideas?

 

Please, thank you very much.