Vista not detecting Radeon HD 5450

[rebel12340]

I know. It's not like I can take the integrated graphics out (atleast not that I'm aware). There is only one PCI express x16 slot. I don't have any extra pci-e x16 cards, so I can't test to see if the slot is bad or what. The nvidia card I have is a PCI card and not a PCI-E card, so it won't fit into the slot.

 

[latecomer]

if its integrated, you have a chipset embedded and theres no way to upgrade them. you can click on its property and disable it. then try the radeon.

 

[rebel12340]

I'm not trying to upgrade the onboard graphics O.o

I thought about going into device manager and disabling the onboard graphics, but I wasn't sure what would happen if the computer still couldn't detect the Radeon. Would I have no video whatsoever or what?

 

[latecomer]

if it doesnt, then no video output. its all trial an error.

 

[rebel12340]

That seems like it could potentially cause an even bigger problem lol.

 

[latecomer]

im going to try get a hold of my friend let him know what your asking about, it might be a day or 2 before i reply back. he spend his day on computer cause he works for a division of norton security. and play a lot of call of duty, so he turns his cell phone off.

 

[wither 3]

You can reinstall the driver for the integrated graphics. I think we've covered where to get it. My system came with a disc that has the motherboard drivers.

 

[latecomer]

sorry my friend said your stuck with the onboard graphics. component dont meet the specs need for the radeon. power supply, shared memory, ect is whats keeping windows from detecting it. he said if it has a advanced bios where you can disable graphics there, then it might detect it.

 

[townsbg]

I prefer to get my drivers from the manufacturer rather than the chip producer. In other words I get my chipset drivers from Asus (my motherboard's manufacturer) as compared to nVidia. I never use windows update with the exception of a Microsoft product and even then I still get it from their website.

 

[latecomer]

one problem with manufactures, after a while they stop updating drivers for their machines. acer stopped updating drivers for my aspire in oct 2009. in nov 2009 it became obsolete. one flaw with windows, if you try updating driver through device manager, windows will say the best driver is already installed, even though there is a better driver available. i have an ATI X1200 chipset, acer update is 8.52, AMD updates up to 9.0, i have their 8.59 driver installed even after acer and AMD said i couldnt use it, due to the way acer set up the chipset.

 

[wither 3]

From what I read, the Radeon only uses 19 watts. That's why the use of a connection to the PSU is unnecessary. If there is a connection on the card for using the power supply directly, you might try doing that. I don't have time to research the card.

 

[latecomer]

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[latecomer]

he needs a power supply of 400 watts or greater. a installation disc.
so first need to upgrade power supply. then graphics by installing softare from supplied disc.

 

[wither 3]

I think this puts everything together. Thanks.

I suggested he try connecting it to a PSU even though it only typically uses 19.1 watts. That's probably an idle power level. The 400 watt PSU is only recommended. I personally found out that that the recommended PSU specs may or may not be necessary when I installed my new MSI card 6 months ago.

The need for a installation disc supports what we've been saying about the drivers and installation of Catalyst. In the absence of the disc, he should be able to download and install everything he needs from one or more websites. I don't have AMD but I thought that Catalyst would also include the driver.

 

[rebel12340]

sorry my friend said your stuck with the onboard graphics. component dont meet the specs need for the radeon. power supply, shared memory, ect is whats keeping windows from detecting it. he said if it has a advanced bios where you can disable graphics there, then it might detect it.

I'm a bit confused. What do you mean by shared memory is stopping Windows from detecting it?

As I've said before, I got the Radeon card out of a different computer when I upgraded the graphics card and the PSU of the other computer. So I took the Radeon, as well as the PSU that was in the other computer, and put both into this one. I don't have an install disc for the card because it came pre-installed on my new computer. But oh well, it's not like I have to use the computer lol. But thanks for all the help anyway guys, I really appreciate it. I was hoping it was just something really obvious that I somehow missed, but my friend is just gonna have to deal with the computer the way it is lol. I'll stick with my Radeon 6950 :b. But anyway, again, thanks for all of your help.

And just a random, off topic question, but does anyone have a suggestion for an upgrade from a AMD Phenom II X4 945 (95W) CPU? I use my computer mostly for gaming, music recording and editing for my band, and video editing. I've looked on NewEgg and they only have one Phenom II processor for sale and I'd have to buy a new motherboard to use it and I'm not sure if its worth the cost. And I've heard that the FX series isn't worth upgrading to either :/

But yea, thanks

 

[latecomer]

if your into gaming, building a system would be better. my friend is a hard core gamer. he builds his on cause its easier to upgrade as newer products comes out.hes his newest upgrades to system has 4 amd bulldozers 32 gb ram ati radeon 5870 and 2 tb hard drive. connected to a 65 inch monitor.
upgrading processor make sure it has same socket as original. processors with am2 sockets are getting hard to find, people have bought them up and selling them on ebay. i been looking for a amd 5050e ebay is only place and theyre used.

 

[rebel12340]

Well I'm not going to be building a system just yet. I dont have a job yet (I'll be starting my first day of college in two weeks), so I don't really have the money to build an entire system. And as far as gaming goes, my computer is about 3 years old and I have no complaints whatsoever when it comes to gaming (or really anything for that matter). And I've heard alot of negative reviews about the AMD bulldozers.

 

[latecomer]

i hear ya there on money. try finding a 400 watt psu or greater making sure it will fit in tower case, and download driver for the hd 5450.

 

[wither 3]

did you try hooking the radeon up to the PSU and then installing Catalyst?

 

[rebel12340]

The radeon doesn't connect to the PSU. And I tried installing catalyst.