- Sep 24, 2018
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I was trying to update the driver for my integrated AMD Radeon R9 M275 card on my Lenovo Y40-80 laptop running Windows 8.1.
Having struggled with this in the past, and hoping to make a clean install of the newest driver (mistakenly assuming I would be able to find it online easily), I uninstalled the AMD card from device manager. It was a little weird, because after uninstalling it and rebooting, the device manager then said I had an M275X. This might be explained by the fact that I may have accidentally downloaded a driver for the M275X in the past. But then I uninstalled THAT and restarted, and then it changed to saying I have AMD Radeon HD 8800M Series. Which I can’t explain. Speccy shows the same thing. Trying to uninstall it in the same way only temporarily works; it keeps popping back up in device manager.
Things are made more complicated by the fact that AMD does not have the M275 listed on their manual driver download page (only listing the M275X), and they also no longer offer their autodetect and update tool (every link to it from another site now instead being redirected to the previously mentioned useless manual driver download page).
So how do I...
Get my computer to recognize the correct card that it came with - M275 - again?
and...
Finally install the latest driver for it, when it’s not available on the AMD website and it doesn’t seem like there still exists a tool that will detect and download the correct driver for AMD cards?
Having struggled with this in the past, and hoping to make a clean install of the newest driver (mistakenly assuming I would be able to find it online easily), I uninstalled the AMD card from device manager. It was a little weird, because after uninstalling it and rebooting, the device manager then said I had an M275X. This might be explained by the fact that I may have accidentally downloaded a driver for the M275X in the past. But then I uninstalled THAT and restarted, and then it changed to saying I have AMD Radeon HD 8800M Series. Which I can’t explain. Speccy shows the same thing. Trying to uninstall it in the same way only temporarily works; it keeps popping back up in device manager.
Things are made more complicated by the fact that AMD does not have the M275 listed on their manual driver download page (only listing the M275X), and they also no longer offer their autodetect and update tool (every link to it from another site now instead being redirected to the previously mentioned useless manual driver download page).
So how do I...
Get my computer to recognize the correct card that it came with - M275 - again?
and...
Finally install the latest driver for it, when it’s not available on the AMD website and it doesn’t seem like there still exists a tool that will detect and download the correct driver for AMD cards?
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