Solved Reinstalling Graphics Drivers Problem

[farzadso]

Hi

A third-party application called Air Display totally ruined my display settings on my switchable graphics card and it's stuck on a basic windows seven look
the last time this happened i fixed it by fiddling around with it
but this time it wont work
is there a way that i can completely delete all of the display drivers i have and install the appropriate ones again?

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

You may have deeper problems than that have you tried this:http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

 

[farzadso]

You may have deeper problems than that have you tried this:http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

yeah,i just checked it, no problems with my system file

 

[marsmimar]

Hi

A third-party application called Air Display totally ruined my display settings on my switchable graphics card and it's stuck on a basic windows seven look
the last time this happened i fixed it by fiddling around with it
but this time it wont work
is there a way that i can completely delete all of the display drivers i have and install the appropriate ones again?

You could open Device Manager, right click on the device and click on Uninstall. Reboot your computer and Windows 7 will search for the appropriate driver(s). Or, you could try restoring your computer to a date/time prior to when the problem began.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

 

[farzadso]

Hi

A third-party application called Air Display totally ruined my display settings on my switchable graphics card and it's stuck on a basic windows seven look
the last time this happened i fixed it by fiddling around with it
but this time it wont work
is there a way that i can completely delete all of the display drivers i have and install the appropriate ones again?

You could open Device Manager, right click on the device and click on Uninstall. Reboot your computer and Windows 7 will search for the appropriate driver(s). Or, you could try restoring your computer to a date/time prior to when the problem began.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

well first of all i already tried uninstall and it didn't work ..
and the main reason for this happening is that i had to restore my laptop back to a date and the only restore point i had was this one that had this problem
so a restore is not an option for me

 

[farzadso]

i just restored my laptop to the factory default version .. it's all new and still it isn't working
i can't switch my graphics cards and one of them(the intel one) seems to be working and the other(the ATI one) seems to have problems as shown in the screenshot

 

[bobkn]

i just restored my laptop to the factory default version .. it's all new and still it isn't working
i can't switch my graphics cards and one of them(the intel one) seems to be working and the other(the ATI one) seems to have problems as shown in the screenshot

Looks like you have only the default graphics drivers installed now.

Seems odd that the factory restore didn't include the proper drivers.

Lenovo has all sorts of graphics drivers available for download. (Too many, if you're unsure which GPUs are present in your Y460.)

Just out of curiosity: I'm unfamiliar with "Air Display" Google comes up with it as a utility for the Mac OS. What?

 

[farzadso]

i just restored my laptop to the factory default version .. it's all new and still it isn't working
i can't switch my graphics cards and one of them(the intel one) seems to be working and the other(the ATI one) seems to have problems as shown in the screenshot

Looks like you have only the default graphics drivers installed now.

Seems odd that the factory restore didn't include the proper drivers.

Lenovo has all sorts of graphics drivers available for download. (Too many, if you're unsure which GPUs are present in your Y460.)

Just out of curiosity: I'm unfamiliar with "Air Display" Google comes up with it as a utility for the Mac OS. What?

i dont even have the default graphics installed now .. coz the default supports aero and this one doesn't
it's really weird .. i've done a factory restore before and everything was up and running
well now i fiddled around with it but i got up to the screenshot here :



and air display is a software for mirroring your desktop onto ur pc/mac .. there are two versions .. i feel like it's stuck on the air display mode

 

[farzadso]

thank god i have other laptops at home otherwise i would have to wait for years to get an answer here ))) lol

 

[chris1neji]

Air Display Support Software for Windows description, Peripherals Downloads List By 30 Day Change | PCWorld | PCWorld

Is this the tool?

I think we should isolate the problem by NOT installing the extra software at the moment.
If you have done so please uninstall it.
It seems to me that your trying to use both your ON-BOARD graphics and your PCI-E Graphics card. You can only use one. I recommend you use the ATI 5650 as it is not integrated. Integrated are really slow and are not that great.

You will need to download ATI 5650 drivers and saved them. Uninstall Intel graphics completely from device manager. Reboot, enter your bios and disable integrated/onboard graphics.
Save and exit.

Check device manager if the error continues please install the downloaded drivers

Side note:
The members in this forum are just volunteers. They do this on their free time, we have lives and we try to help.

 

[farzadso]

Air Display Support Software for Windows description, Peripherals Downloads List By 30 Day Change | PCWorld | PCWorld

Is this the tool?

I think we should isolate the problem by NOT installing the extra software at the moment.
If you have done so please uninstall it.
It seems to me that your trying to use both your ONBOARD graphics and your PCI-E Graphics card. You can only use one. I recommend you use the ATI 5650 as it is not integrated. Integrated are really slow and are not that great.

You will need to download ATI 5650 drives and saved them. Uninstall Intel graphics completely from device manager. Reboot, enter your bios and disable integrated/onboard graphics.
Save and exit.

Check device manager if the error continues please install the downloaded drivers

yes .. that's the tool
i don't have anything installed .. 1 hour ago i did another factory restore and it's still the same ...
can u tell me exactly where to get the drivers for the ati 5650 please? i would very much appreciate it

 

[chris1neji]

Sorry I just realized that you had a laptop, and that you were indeed running TWO different display drivers at ONCE. This is very rare.
http://consumerdl.lenovo.com.cn/UserFiles/Driver/en/Downloads%20and%20Drivers/Y460&Y560/WIN7/IN2VDO30WW6.exe

See if this does anything they are drivers for intel Onboard graphics, Lenovo does not supply any drivers for AMD

Intel Onboard Graphics Driver
IN2VDO30WW6.exe
34.2 MBWindows 7 64bit8.15.10.211916 Sep 2010

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Sorry I just realized that you had a laptop, and that you were indeed running TWO different display drivers at ONCE. This is very rare.
http://consumerdl.lenovo.com.cn/Use...ds and Drivers/Y460&Y560/WIN7/IN2VDO30WW6.exe

See if this does anything they are drivers for intel Onboard graphics, Lenovo does not supply any drivers for AMD

Intel Onboard Graphics Driver
IN2VDO30WW6.exe
34.2 MBWindows 7 64bit8.15.10.211916 Sep 2010

Actually that is quite common now....not for your laptop model but useful general information about switchable graphics http://www.wfu.edu/~yipcw/lenovo/t400/switchable_gfx/

Now this page is as close as I can get to you laptop drivers with the information in your system spec's some are right and some are for different models Lenovo Ideapad Support & downloads - Drivers & Downloads Pay attention to all the special notices....Make sure it's the right drivers....You may have to go into the bios to reset the graphics options....The system might resist installing the drivers

 

[marsmimar]

Also found this AMD site for the ATI 5650. In the upper right corner there's a "Find a Driver" link with an autodetect capability.

ATI Mobility Radeon

One caution from personal experience. I was recently advised by Windows Update that a new driver was available for my Intel HD Graphics. After installing I started getting BSODs so I had to revert back to the previous version. I contacted Intel and they said they provide generic drivers to Windows Update and OEMs like Sony, Dell, Acer, etc. The OEMs are then free to customize the generic driver. Intel told me to always get new drivers from the OEM site and not from Intel or Windows Update because any customizations might make the generic driver incompatible.

So I guess it's possible that even a newer driver from AMD might be incompatible with your computer if Lenovo uses customized drivers. If you decide to try it, don't forget to make a new restore point before installing so you can roll everything back just in case.

 

[chris1neji]

Thanks Marsmimar, i been reluctant to get drivers from both intel or AMD and been sticking with pure Lenovo.
I went to their site look up video drivers and offer only Intel, not a single AMD, it's listed but no download. Maybe the latest intel will fix it.

THANKS a lot Ivan, your post and information is quite useful

 

[farzadso]

thank you everyone for the help
i finally found the solution on another forum
some guy had modded a driver for the 5600/5700 series and my display driver is back and working
here are the steps :

Working Catalyst 11.2 Switchable Graphics Driver (64bit only)

USE THIS DRIVER AT YOUR OWN RISK, I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY MAYHEM CAUSED. BEFORE REPORTING AN ISSUE PLEASE READ BUGS SECTION


UPDATE 30/3/2011 Another update, if I had of known it would be this quick, wouldn't have bothered with yesterdays, again this is just a HARDWARE ID update, this time for the acer laptops, so if your driver is already working, don't bother with this one.

UPDATE 29/3/2011 A new version, this one is only to include new HARDWARE IDs for the intel chipsets (as provided by users in the thread) there are no new versions of driver in this release (so if it's working for you, no need to upgrade).

UPDATE 22/3/2011 Success, new drivers uploaded with latest Intel HD drivers NEW INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS, EVEN IF UPGRADING, will now work on including the DEVICE_IDs people have provided in the below thread.

UPDATE 14/3/2011 Apologies for the delay, only have the chance to work on the drivers on my train rides to and from work, I have a beta version of the 11.2 and latest intel igfx drivers and switching software functioning, still have some bugs to sort out (HDMI audio) and driver signing is looking to be impossible as you have to modify the INF to much with the custom registry entries that whatever arbitrary signature boundaries microsoft sets on it's driver cat file are breached (I am still pondering how to solve this one)

ISSUES:
1)If you have a 5600 or 5700 series card, It will now register as a 5600/5700 series card in device manager, this still should work fine as they both use the Manhattan driver variant , am working on a fix (see technical section)

2) The Intel driver is unsigned, so you will have to hit F8 every time you cold boot your PC and scroll down to Disable driver signature enforcement for the driver to work (See Technical Section for why and updates on the issue)
There are now two solutions to this issue:
1) Thanks to Black_ice_Spain for a solution if your willing to modify your boot partition.
or
2) Thanks to randomizer:
This works without having to press F8 on bootup to disable driver signing.
Go to the Start menu and type cmd.exe in the Search Bar. Right click on cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator.
If you have the UAC turned on, choose Yes to proceed. Otherwise, you should see the command windows opened already. In the shell window, copy paste the following and hit Enter.
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
After you reboot you will get a see a new stamp in the bottom right of the screen "Test Mode, Windows 7, Build 7600"
Now all of the unsigned drivers you have for x64 will work and load fine.


3) I have gotten as many Intel Graphics chipsets into v08 as I have the HARDWARE IDs for, please continue to let me know if I am missing yours.


I got sick of waiting on vendors to fix the abysmal situation of updating their outdated and buggy ATI Drivers for switchable graphics laptops ಠ_ಠ so I modified the current driver in 11.2 catalyst (8.821.0.0) to include the igfx proxy calls (Intel HD Graphics) which is what makes the older manufacturer drivers work properly. This download includes everything in the 11.2 64bit download (including CCC2) as well as the modified 8.821.0.0 driver and HDMI sound driver.
This was tested on my HP DV6 running Windows 7, a HD5650 and a full video driver wipe (including Intel HD drivers). So far has been stable on Borderlands and Battlefield BC2 with switchable graphics working fine.
Hope this helps out some of you that have found yourself in the same predicament. Please let me know of any bugs/issues that arise and I will attempt to address them (honestly my technical skill is just above that of a shaved monkey, it was just a text copy, pasta job to get the correct calls into the inf, then quite a few rounds of restore point testing before I got it working. So please bear with me.)



DOWNLOAD:

11-2_mobility_win7_64_Youzen_mod_v08.zip

Previous Version:
11-2_mobility_win7_64_Youzen_mod_v05.zip



INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Download and install Driver Sweeper from Guru3D and ccleaner


2) Open Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program and remove the following:

-ATI Catalyst Install Manager

-Intel Management Software


3) Reboot and mash F8 to enter safe mode.


4) Run Driver Sweeper and remove ATI drivers,


5)Open Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager -> Display adapters, Make sure both graphics cards are showing as "Standard VGA adapter". If they still aren't, right mouse click on it and select "Remove"


6) Reboot, Mash F8 and select "Disable driver signature enforcment"


7) Run ccleaner and select the registry tab and clear the registry, repeat again as the first clean leaves orphaned activex objects.


8) Unzip and Install driver by running setup.exe in folder, reboot making sure you hit F8 on startup and select "Disable driver signature enforcment".

TECHNICAL
It would appear that the 5600/5700 cards are identified by their SUBSYSTEM ID rather than DEVICE ID, so it may be just a case of gathering the various subsystem ID's from known working drivers (as AMD/ATI provide zero documentation) and adding them to the driver, have not had a chance to implement this as it will break the driver for cards who's SUBSYSTEM ID I do not have.

The Driver Signature enforcement fix is currently impossible as the modified intel driver needs to reference ATI DLLs which break the driver signature, I currently don't see any way around this as I need a Microsoft signature to co-sign the new drivers which costs quite a bit of money (I see now why manufacturers don't bother to update their drivers).


BUGS
When reporting an issue, please include in your report the Hardware ID of both your ATI card and Intel HD Graphics card. (By going to Device Manager, selecting the card and right mouse click Properties, go to the detail tab, select Hardware ID from the drop down box copy those numbers). Also a massive help for me would be a direct link to your last known working manufacturer drivers.

Make sure you are using just this driver and no other mod's on top as I currently do not have time to support them.