Can't update video card driver.

[Gerlinde]

I am not able to update the video card driver of my note book ( see my signature). There is a newer version for my card available at the AMD site. When I try to install it, I get this message:



Of course Sony does not have anything posted for my notebook. It came originally with Vista installed. I did a clean install of Windows 7 as it came out and switched to a 64-bit system. I did reinstall the Sony shared library to get all the special keys working and also the different card readers etc.

Does anyone have a solution to get around this message?

[Steve Grisetti]

It could be a Sony thing, Gerlinde. VAIOs are notorious for modifying their drivers.

Try going to the Sony site, looking up your computer model and checking to see if they've got updates there.

[Chuck Engels]

Depending on the age of the computer they may not be creating a 64bit driver for that graphics adapter. Same thing has happened to some of the Dell machines with onboard graphics, Dell is not updating the drivers to work with Windows 7 64 bit. Just means it's time for a new laptop

[Gerlinde]

My notebook is only 3 years old, I know that is old by technology standards. But unfortunately, I can't buy a new notebook at this time or any time soon in the future.

As I said in my original post, I checked with Sony and I can not find a 64-bit driver posted there or any driver at all.
I removed everything Sony from this notebook as I converted to Windows 7 64-bit. At that time, Sony did not provide any updated software, even the notebook was only 1 year old.

Now Sony provides Windows 7 64-bit software for this notebook, but I don't want to have all the bloat back I got rid off.

I don't know if installing the provided "Shared Library" would contain the video card driver.