Video driver for eMachines M5309

[acole1]

As the title says, I am trying to install the video driver for an eMachines M5309 I recently reformated.

With Everest I can verify that the graphics card is an ATI Radeon IGP-320M (U1), but when I install the ATi driver (Catalyst 6.6 Windows XP - Motherboard/IGP Driver) I get an error with the title "Severe" saying
"INF error
Video driver not found."
I have tried using driver cleaner to clean out drivers that may have partialy installed, but I always get this error.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks

 

[fbrdphreak]

You're trying to install a desktop video card drive on a notebook computer.

You need to either get the driver directly from eMachines (good luck, LOL) or use a modded driver. Modded drivers generally have restrictions removed from them that allow for users to install a desktop driver on a laptop. I believe the Omega drivers are setup out of box to install on any ATI video card. Also there is a program called Patje's Mobility Modder, that will mod any Catalyst driver to work on a notebook. I believe these should work for you. However the Omega drivers will be better optimized than the Modded Catalysts.

http://www.omega-driver.net
http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/

 

[acole1]

I did try the omega drivers, but it looked like it didnt pick up the device. I will try again though.

I also looked into the patje mod, but this chipset is not shown to be supported. If all else fails I will try that.

Would it work to get the mobility drivers from ATI? The chipset is not in the "supported" list, but would it work?

Also, would there be any way I can edit the .inf file to make this IGP driver work?

How would the desktop driver be any different from the notebook driver when the device is an IGP (Integrated Graphis Processor?) attached to the motherboard?

 

[acole1]

It apears that a 2nd try at the Omega drivers worked. I had to find the .INF and load it, but it apears to be working now.

eMachines has horrible driver support

Thanks for the help!

 

[fbrdphreak]

Yeah eMachines is cheap for a reason. Glad it worked