Hi all
(BTW this post is shamelessly copied from my other post further down the page, it wouldn't allow me to edit that one)
I bought a Dell Inspirion 1501 off a friend some months back. I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled windows as soon as I got home (it being a dell that had been used as delivered, bloat and all, for 4 years, 2 of which without virus protection).
That was obviously a mistake, Now the video driver is very primitive. I can only use the screen in 1024 x 768 at the moment and I know it can do 1280 x 860 (I think it is using xp's default driver). Windows has absolutely no clue as to what the card is so I can't update the driver using device manager or dxdiag.
After some research I am fairly sure the card is an ATI Xpress 1150 (intergrated) so I downloaded the drivers directly. 76MB and an error message later (see below), I have come to the conclusion that it was a driver package that relied on knowing what the card is so that it could install the correct driver from its library.
The error message:
I was reling on the driver identifying the card to windows, not the other way round.
What can I do? Is there another way I can get the card to output the proper resolution? Absolutely any ideas welcome.
(BTW this post is shamelessly copied from my other post further down the page, it wouldn't allow me to edit that one)
I bought a Dell Inspirion 1501 off a friend some months back. I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled windows as soon as I got home (it being a dell that had been used as delivered, bloat and all, for 4 years, 2 of which without virus protection).
That was obviously a mistake, Now the video driver is very primitive. I can only use the screen in 1024 x 768 at the moment and I know it can do 1280 x 860 (I think it is using xp's default driver). Windows has absolutely no clue as to what the card is so I can't update the driver using device manager or dxdiag.
After some research I am fairly sure the card is an ATI Xpress 1150 (intergrated) so I downloaded the drivers directly. 76MB and an error message later (see below), I have come to the conclusion that it was a driver package that relied on knowing what the card is so that it could install the correct driver from its library.
The error message:
Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration. Please make sure you have the required hardware or software
I was reling on the driver identifying the card to windows, not the other way round.
What can I do? Is there another way I can get the card to output the proper resolution? Absolutely any ideas welcome.