Need an alternative driver.

mike6623

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I have a dell inspirion 530 from 2007. It is afriend's. When he gave it to me to look at it had a pirated windows 7 ultimate copy and had never been updated. Not to mention the 25 unwanted programs. It now has windows 8 pro 32 bit.

The only issue is after a few minutes it gives me the eror AND display driver has crashed and recovered". Then it will freeze shortly after. I've run the diagnostic and memory tests and all came back with no errors. I have the latest AMD display driver.

Where can I find out what other drivers may work for the Machine and OS I am having the issue with? I've Uninstalled the driver and went to the site, same thing. Any help? OR any alternative tests that can pin point the issue. The fix it said it wasn't compatible.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite
    Memory
    16GB
Sometimes the newest driver is not the best driver on older hardware..

You have to revert back to an older version - and then block driver updates - to prevent MS update from installing newer driver
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
Sometimes the newest driver is not the best driver on older hardware..

You have to revert back to an older version - and then block driver updates - to prevent MS update from installing newer driver
Great, how do you block driver updates?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite
    Memory
    16GB
How did you get to that?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite
    Memory
    16GB
In any case, would the display driver cause the entire screen to freeze if it is incompatible with the driver?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion Elite
    Memory
    16GB
right click start flag > system > Advanced system settings > hardware tab > Device installation Settings...

A driver is just software telling the hardware what to do - software crashes and hardware fails..
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
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