HELP! Acer travelmate Vista ATI graphics card not working

[abardall]

ok i have an acer travelmate 5720 windows vista 32 bit
i have had to re install my operating system and now it cant find my graphics card
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 256MB dedicated memory
now in the bios it says it has dedicated graphics of 256 but once the os has loaded up it will only load in 1024 x 768 and it will not find the graphics card and says VGA Graphics Adapter and when i try to install the drivers for it and This computer does not meet the minimal requirements for installing the software also i have tryed installing every driver under the sun for it and still cant get it working iv istaled drivers from ati acer the lot anyone got any solutions???


I bought a new Acer Travelmate 5720G, following specs (copied):
Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Santa-Rosa ( (T7300 - 2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB)
Screen 15.4" (Crystalbrite WXGA Acer TFT LCD)
Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
RAM HIGH (2048MB 2GB)
Hard Drive 160GB
Optical Drive DVD Rewriter (Records DVDs 8x & CDs 24x & Dual Layer Super Multi)
Graphics Dedicated (ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 2400 XT with up to 1024 MB Hypermemory™)

[Judas]

Did you go to acer website and download the latest available driver for that model..

OR

Try the latest mobility modder and catalyst set?

[kn00tcn]

or did you get a 'repair disc' with acer's installer on it?

[abardall]

no i didnt get a disk and iv tryed the acer website still nothing but iv updated the bios and now it says there unknown devices

[Judas]

i would highly suggest perhaps sending the entire laptop back to the manufacturer.... or where you had purchased it..

there is ZERO reason you shouldn't have a restore disk of some sort..... Every acer laptop i've received with vista installed has had the orginal vista discs and a restore disc..

Usually you have the option at bootable to hit F2 to load restore from hardrive....

you didn't buy it second hand did you?

[abardall]

no no i bought it brand new from acer direct but the hard drive stopped working completely and instead of all the hassel of sending it back i tryedreinstalling windows plus if they got the had drive working id havew been fucked the amount of illgal software that was onit i got somthing now it says thers an unknown device on display part but windows cant find the solution also it says the amd 8151 hyperTransport(tm) agp3.0 Graphics tunnel isnt working and windows cant install that either

[Judas]

Seriously, if it's causing that much grief.. it's quite likely it's a dud..... not worth trying to resolve as the chances of failure down the road increase... to the point of enevitably running out of the warranty period and then crashing to the point of no return..

Just wipe the drive and send it back to acer.... tell em to completely fix the sucker or replace it completely .... trust me.... the short time you'll be without a laptop.... is alot better then the long time you'll be without one PLUS losing all of your data possibly as well.

[Vikingod]

Sounds like a driver issue to me. The error you are getting is because its a laptop and windows can't find a driver for it.

Does the system boot into safe mode? If it does, try uninstalling your device drivers and see what you get. Boot up and reinstall your chipset and graphics drivers.

Have you tried the DH mobility modder with the official cats from ATI. If not, try them

If you don't have a restore disk, I'd call Acer and have them send you one. They will most likely gripe, but stick to your guns, ask for the guy in charge, and you will be fine.

[abardall]

im gona try 1 more time iv flashed the bios and installed xp but still having the same problem so i think i may just wipe it and send the fucker back lol