Topic Title: AMD A8-3520M Switchable Graphics not working right?
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 03/10/2013 01:14 PM
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elemein
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So guys, I need some help. Recently I reinstalled Windows 7 Enterprise onto my laptop. It is an AMD A8-3520M+7450M CrossFire setup. I popped in the appropiate Toshiba drivers and everything is recognized fine. Buuut-

http://imgur.com/Qdg9yJA

Crossfire is disabled, and everytime I turn on Switchable Graphics, it complains that I dont have drivers installed (which I do...)

Any ideas for the fix?

 03/10/2013 01:23 PM
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Yes....you overlooked the first big sticky in this forum...installing mobility drivers. Let me re-cap:

QUOTE:      If you experience difficulty while using the generic AMD Catalyst Mobility drivers, we recommend reverting to the driver provided by your notebook vendor. Please contact your notebook vendor for their most recent graphics drivers.

 

The following notebooks are not compatible:

 Toshiba® notebooks
 Sony® VAIO® notebooks
 Panasonic® notebooks

 Notebooks equipped with switchable graphics

 NOTEBOOKS EQUIPPED WITH SWITCHABLE GRAPHICS MUST GET DRIVERS FROM LAPTOP MANUFACTURER.



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 03/10/2013 01:27 PM
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elemein
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I suppose I forgot to mention that it was the Toshiba website that I got the drivers from right after installing Windows 7 Enterprise. So I did do as the sticky instructed me to do, but I still arrived at this issue. Sorry for not mentioning that earlier.

 03/11/2013 10:55 PM
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elemein
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Is there no solution to this?

 03/12/2013 07:12 PM
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Vantharas
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Well since the AMD drivers are not supported by Toshiba since they decided to opt out of the AMD Driver program. You need to be contacting Toshiba and ask them what your options are.



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