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Hey, I was desperate and dumb enough to "express uninstall all AMD software" when an error kept saying "Installation complete (warnings during installation) View Log for details." Whenever I tried to uninstall and install my AMD driver how I regularly did on my laptop in order to update it.
http://oi58.tinypic.com/28bxkyr.jpg
Whenever this error shows up instead of the regular green check saying everything went perfectly it always meant it just completely failed installing it.
(For some reason the uninstallation of the drivers at some point stopped asking me to restart my computer and when uninstalling the of the driver did no distort of icon distortion or start flickering my screen, which added to the desperation to fix the issue)
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After doing the mistake this error now started showing up when I tried using the catalyst driver detector:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/1z4zqjl.jpg
And after doing some more research I found out that this option can actually delete my chipset drivers or something vital from my computer. Things got even more worrisome when factory resetting my alienware laptop did not reset these missing drivers.
(How can such a tempting and possibly irreversible mistake be put on display when updating a driver can turn out to be way less user friendly than people posting "how to" videos on it make it seem?)
I have searched for a couple of days on the internet but there does not seem to be a clear answer, is there a way to recover chipset drivers on a laptop if that is the case?
I read on a forum that downloading the suggested driver for your laptop's model at Dell's website may fix this issue but I have no idea where to unzip this file if it does work. (I have unzipped it on several program folders, starting with the AMD program folder, but it does not fix the issue)
Things got even weirder when my Qualcomm Atheros Killer Network Manager (who did not display my Radeon graphics card after the incident, and only displayed my battery saving Intel graphics card) Showed my Radeon graphics card in the registry. For some miracle the issue resolved itself and my games started playing perfectly fine as it would with my gaming graphics card. This was too good to be true and I was disappointing when the Radeon graphics card disappeared from the registry again on my next boot up. This is what it currently looks like:
http://oi57.tinypic.com/1qs520.jpg
When the "miracle" happened the Radeon graphics card showed up next to the Intel one with a semicolon separating them since my alienware laptop has a switchable graphics card. Any idea what this could mean? Am I stuck with my Intel graphics card or can I salvage my Radeon graphics card?
Hey, I was desperate and dumb enough to "express uninstall all AMD software" when an error kept saying "Installation complete (warnings during installation) View Log for details." Whenever I tried to uninstall and install my AMD driver how I regularly did on my laptop in order to update it.
http://oi58.tinypic.com/28bxkyr.jpg
Whenever this error shows up instead of the regular green check saying everything went perfectly it always meant it just completely failed installing it.
(For some reason the uninstallation of the drivers at some point stopped asking me to restart my computer and when uninstalling the of the driver did no distort of icon distortion or start flickering my screen, which added to the desperation to fix the issue)
-------------------------------------
After doing the mistake this error now started showing up when I tried using the catalyst driver detector:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/1z4zqjl.jpg
And after doing some more research I found out that this option can actually delete my chipset drivers or something vital from my computer. Things got even more worrisome when factory resetting my alienware laptop did not reset these missing drivers.
(How can such a tempting and possibly irreversible mistake be put on display when updating a driver can turn out to be way less user friendly than people posting "how to" videos on it make it seem?) I have searched for a couple of days on the internet but there does not seem to be a clear answer, is there a way to recover chipset drivers on a laptop if that is the case?
I read on a forum that downloading the suggested driver for your laptop's model at Dell's website may fix this issue but I have no idea where to unzip this file if it does work. (I have unzipped it on several program folders, starting with the AMD program folder, but it does not fix the issue)
Things got even weirder when my Qualcomm Atheros Killer Network Manager (who did not display my Radeon graphics card after the incident, and only displayed my battery saving Intel graphics card) Showed my Radeon graphics card in the registry. For some miracle the issue resolved itself and my games started playing perfectly fine as it would with my gaming graphics card. This was too good to be true and I was disappointing when the Radeon graphics card disappeared from the registry again on my next boot up. This is what it currently looks like:
http://oi57.tinypic.com/1qs520.jpg
When the "miracle" happened the Radeon graphics card showed up next to the Intel one with a semicolon separating them since my alienware laptop has a switchable graphics card. Any idea what this could mean? Am I stuck with my Intel graphics card or can I salvage my Radeon graphics card?
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