Back to the bad old days of OEM-only drivers? No support from AMD for 3020e, 3050e, 3050U laptop APUs?

[VirtualLarry]

This is quite frankly, rather disgusting.

 

[Shmee]

Hmm, what about open source drivers? Are they supported by those?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, what about open source drivers? Are they supported by those?

I'm talking about Win10.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

have you tried drivers from one of the related family products? Like the 300U for the 3050U, or 200GE for the E series? I am curious if they work.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think that the "e" (lowercase) suffix on an AMD part may mean "embedded", and as such, AMD may not provide drivers for them.

I couldn't find any drivers (at all, other than the ones included with the craptop), to install with my A4-9120e APU.

 

[Shmee]

I'm talking about Win10.

Windows used to have open source drivers. Perhaps we should go back to that. Like when there were Omega drivers.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I couldn't find any drivers (at all, other than the ones included with the craptop), to install with my A4-9120e APU.

The A4-6210 is also Beema with the R3 graphics, now legacy, and the Adrenalin 21.5.2 (WHQL) from 6/21 are the ones I'd try in the name of experimental science -

https://www.amd.com/en/support/apu/...s-apu-for-desktops/a4-6210-radeon-r3-graphics

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't get it. I wrote "A4-9120e", you wrote "Beema A4-6210".

I have a laptop with a quad-core A4-6310, it's alright, GCN graphics though, and the standard AMD drivers seem to work on it, more or less. That laptop I can download drivers from AMD.

But the Excavator / Stoney Ridge A4-9120e, you cannot. If I download the mainline AMD Adrenaline drivers, they say "No compatible AMD hardware found" upon installation.

 

[blckgrffn]

I don't get it. I wrote "A4-9120e", you wrote "Beema A4-6210".

I have a laptop with a quad-core A4-6310, it's alright, GCN graphics though, and the standard AMD drivers seem to work on it, more or less. That laptop I can download drivers from AMD.

But the Excavator / Stoney Ridge A4-9120e, you cannot. If I download the mainline AMD Adrenaline drivers, they say "No compatible AMD hardware found" upon installation.

AMD driver auto detect tool says nothing?

What is with the listing of all the CPUs in the title of the post yet you are talking about a very different CPU in your actual post?

 

[VirtualLarry]

What is with the listing of all the CPUs in the title of the post yet you are talking about a very different CPU in your actual post?

Because (AFAIK) they're all in the same boat.

Go to AMD.com, support/drivers, use their search tool or try to drill-down, there IS NO drivers listed for 3020e, 3050e, and I suppose, 3050U.

Which was also the case for my A4-9120e. They had drivers for the A4-9220, but not the 9120e.

Also, I have a feeling that the CPUID identification string for the A4-9120e had been modified by the laptop vendor. (This can be done with AMD platforms.)

 

[blckgrffn]

Because (AFAIK) they're all in the same boat.

Go to AMD.com, support/drivers, use their search tool or try to drill-down, there IS NO drivers listed for 3020e, 3050e, and I suppose, 3050U.

Which was also the case for my A4-9120e. They had drivers for the A4-9220, but not the 9120e.

Also, I have a feeling that the CPUID identification string for the A4-9120e had been modified by the laptop vendor. (This can be done with AMD platforms.)

Just built a Brix based PC a few weeks ago. Pulled down a GPU driver and chipset driver without issue, as I remember.

Are you a human?

www.neweggbusiness.com

I guess it uses a different embedded Ryzen. V1605B

But it is really conflating it a bit to compare an embedded excavator CPU with 14nm AMD embedded options that were released in 2020. If you were directly having issues with those that would be more notable.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I don't get it. I wrote "A4-9120e", you wrote "Beema A4-6210".

I have a laptop with a quad-core A4-6310, it's alright, GCN graphics though, and the standard AMD drivers seem to work on it, more or less. That laptop I can download drivers from AMD.

But the Excavator / Stoney Ridge A4-9120e, you cannot. If I download the mainline AMD Adrenaline drivers, they say "No compatible AMD hardware found" upon installation.

My idea Larry, is since they are both Beema with R3 graphics, all we want is the graphics driver. Extract the folder from AMD to a folder on your desktop; name it R3 drivers or something. Go to device manager, pick upgrade the MS default display driver, and point it to the graphics drivers in the R3 folder. If it already has an OEM AMD driver, nuke it with DDU, then proceed. If it still won't install, or they are wonky, nothing lost but a little time. But they may work flawlessly too. Worth a shot.