Recent content by gibby

I had a Vista Home Premium 32-bit running on an Acer 4420 Extensa. I ran the Windows 7 RC in virtual PC and I was never able to find a graphics driver that would work for my ATI Radeon graphics card as it was discontinued apparently. Anyway, I purchased the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade...

Installed the driver, video output is still bad and the driver reports:

Ok, let me go fire up the old IE to visit that link and I will give it a try. I'll report back. Thanks!

I am about to expose my ignorance here but, do you mean the Windows updates? If so, it states there are no more updates. I ran the driver update and it said the standard VGA driver was the "best" one available. I downloaded the vista driver at that link you provided earlier today, installed...

I have installed Windows 7 in a virtual pc (2007). I decided to go this route before I plunge into installing it outright on my laptop. I have googled and searched extensively and have tried everything...I cannot get a driver installed for my display which is for an x1250 ATI Radeon graphics...

Well, I started the upgrade and the script flagged my ATI Radeon x1250 graphics card as having driver issues. I am surprised this did not come up in the update advisor script. Did some googling and it sounds like there are no driver's available for Windows 7. I checked the Microsoft site and...

Cool, thanks. I ran that update advisor beta thingy from MS and it states all my hardware is fine. It only flagged Acer specific software as having potential issues. It also flagged Skype as incompatible. If I do a clean install, I won't have to worry about that software anyway, right...

I am in the market for some advice. I am considering updating my Vista SP1 to Windows 7 RC. My machine is a dual boot and I also have Linux Mint (ubuntu) installed. When it boots, the grub boot loader comes up first and I have to choose Vista from a list to boot it. Now, if I upgrade...