ATI accelerated graphics card for old laptop

When the desktop's graphics card is obsolete, you can easily remove it and upgrade by plugging in the newer. Same problem with the laptop, but much more difficult and almost impossible to upgrade the hardware. The product of ATI, one of two graphics card manufacturers the world, after many years have become popular before jumping into this market, Intel with integrated graphics chip.
After being bought AMD, ATI's older products are not supported much. Most do not have the list of drivers Catalyst Driver. The owner of the laptop has discrete graphics cards used to cost thousands of dollars had to use the driver (driver software) obsolete, even incompatible with new operating systems like Windows Vista / 7

These laptops are now relatively cheap price and user-Vietnam popular favorite. Of course they have to use older drivers that came from the factory default laptop manufacturer (OEM). Some cases are lost install disk or upgrade the operating system must use the Windows driver available much more limited, with no custom tune the performance of graphics cards.

Gradually modify the driver for ATI graphics cards

1. Download the necessary software:

First, you download the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI's website here. Note the right operating system on your computer. If you still find your graphics card in the list means you are still supported. If not, you download the same product category.

Then you download the Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 here. Install after the download MSXML 4.0.

The IBM ThinkPad laptop T40, T41 users still preferred because of their universal persistence finally editing software download driver Driver Modder DH here . ZIP file to extract into a separate folder.

2. The steps:

With Windows Vista, you should check disabled users (User Account Control - UAC) and reboot. Although this is a security feature of Vista users have complained of this and often turn it off. However, you can turn back after the editing process is complete driver.
Then you run the downloaded file may Catalyst drivers from ATI's site. Monitoring process as directed on the screen, while software extract file to your hard drive is full, prompt installed on systems not installed, the next stop (Cancel). At that time, the entire driver package is located in the directory (folder) is: C: \ ATI \ SUPPORT \ 8-2_vista32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_xxxxx \ Driver (where xxxxx is the sequential number of the driver version).

DH Driver Modder software running. Click the Browse button, select the folder containing the files of the new Catalyst drivers unwind. Then click the Modify button to proceed to edit the files needed. When you finish editing process, get rid of DH Driver Modder software.

Switch to the folder containing the installation Catalyst Driver (C: \ ATI \ SUPPORT \ 8-2_vista32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_xxxxx \ Driver) , select the Setup.exe file to run. Once installed, Windows will warn drivers not certified. You just accept the settings.
The installation process is finished, restart your computer and enjoy the tweaking utility with the performance of their graphics cards. (By LXP)