HeirApparent
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~SOLVED~ If you tried everything to get your graphics card to show up on Windows 8 (instead of the default driver) but nothing works, refer to the very last post in this thread for how I solved the problem. ~SOLVED~
I'll post this in points to make it simple so hopefully nobody skims past this issue.
1. My computer is self-built from a bunch of other computers. "Frankenstein" I call her.
- It has good parts, but some names of the hardware is unknown to me.
2. I have just upgraded to Windows 8 today from a barely operating Windows XP with driver issues (they got lost in the building process).
3. I have an ASUS Motherboard, that came with an Alienware Aurora.
4. I know what kind of graphics card I have.
5. I cannot install new drivers, because they're either incompatible with Windows 8 or I don't know the exact graphics card model.
It is an ATI Radeon HD graphics card. It's somewhere in the 4xxx series. When I first installed it on my old Gateway (it was crem-de-la-crem back then) the CCC had a... woman? I believe her to be called "Sapphire", but I haven't found a capable graphics card driver with this series (on Windows 8).
The model is not on the graphics card, if it is, it is not visible and I am not removing it from my motherboard. Not that I would need to, there's no name marked.
How can I find out the name of the card? And once that is done, how can I upgrade my graphics card driver? It's running off the default system driver and I've read all the threads that deal with it, but none of them work because they boil down to the problem at hand.
All help is appreciated and I will regularly check this thread to post, etc. Thank you.
PS: DXDiag is no help. There's only five tabs, and barely any information (which is all wrong, it still thinks I have an AMD Processor instead of my ASUS).
I'll post this in points to make it simple so hopefully nobody skims past this issue.
1. My computer is self-built from a bunch of other computers. "Frankenstein" I call her.
- It has good parts, but some names of the hardware is unknown to me.
2. I have just upgraded to Windows 8 today from a barely operating Windows XP with driver issues (they got lost in the building process).
3. I have an ASUS Motherboard, that came with an Alienware Aurora.
4. I know what kind of graphics card I have.
5. I cannot install new drivers, because they're either incompatible with Windows 8 or I don't know the exact graphics card model.
It is an ATI Radeon HD graphics card. It's somewhere in the 4xxx series. When I first installed it on my old Gateway (it was crem-de-la-crem back then) the CCC had a... woman? I believe her to be called "Sapphire", but I haven't found a capable graphics card driver with this series (on Windows 8).
The model is not on the graphics card, if it is, it is not visible and I am not removing it from my motherboard. Not that I would need to, there's no name marked.
How can I find out the name of the card? And once that is done, how can I upgrade my graphics card driver? It's running off the default system driver and I've read all the threads that deal with it, but none of them work because they boil down to the problem at hand.
All help is appreciated and I will regularly check this thread to post, etc. Thank you.
PS: DXDiag is no help. There's only five tabs, and barely any information (which is all wrong, it still thinks I have an AMD Processor instead of my ASUS).
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