Drivers needed after Windows 10 clean install on Pavilion g6 (Pavilion g6-1d21dx)

[diamante]

As it turned out, I needed to install r.46 of the BIOS. Now the g6 goes in and out of sleep and hibernate modes like a dream.

I highly recommend clean-installing Windows 10 on this model. The performance is fantastic once you get everything set up.

Here's a summary of the only other issue I have encountered, in case I can save another user some time:

When I intalled Windows 10, the installer automatically installed the correct driver for the laptop's Radeon HD 6520G display adapter. Nevertheless, I was later prompted to upgrade to Radeon Software Crimson Edition. When I tried installing the update, though, nothing changed. The Catalyst Control Center was still installed, and there was no sign of any Crimson software. It was as though the system ignored the installation, even though I didn't get any error messages. I had a similar experience when I installed the Crimson "upgrade" after my first Windows 10 upgrade attempt (installing Windows 10 over Windows 7). That time, though, I opted to install a gaming component of the Crimson software along with the basic software. The gaming component did install, but it wasn't something I would ever use. No display adapter driver update was installed that time, either, though.

I recommend that anyone with this model not bother installing the Crimson Edition software--just select "don't tell me about this update again." AMD has stated on its website that no further driver updates will be released for the Radeon HD 6520G. Also, I found a few threads on AMD's user forum where people said that drivers for the Radeon HD 6520G need to be installed using Windows Update and that drivers downloaded from AMD won't work. The Windows Update driver would obviously be the same one that Windows installed automatically in the first place.