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‎05-25-2016 08:00 AM

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Product: Pavilion dv6
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Hello

 

I have a HP Pavilion dv6 that I purchased in late 2010 (see specs below) with 'Intel core i5' with an 'ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics' card included (exactly as the stickers on my machine advertise).

 

However, the other day I was admittedly a bit stupid, as I am a techy person, but I decided to download updates for my ATI driver via the AMD website. However after doing so a few days later I found that the card had ceased functioning, dissapearing from my device manager and my Catalyst CCC stopped working. After doing some research I decided to uninstall my AMD Catalyst stuff (practically everything I downloaded the other night was included in it) which automatically switched my graphics card over to the 'Intel(R) HD Graphics' card of which is really bad as I game on this computer.

 

I tried to reinstall my ATI card via AMD's website but nothing actually installed other than its directories and I also tried the recovery manager which did not work either. I decided to uninstall the AMD install manager to clear everything AMD related and try to get some help here online.

 

Here are my laptops specs:

Windows 7 (x64) Home Premium

Intel(R) Core i5 CPU

500GB HDD

4GB RAM (8GB RAM now after a recent RAM upgrade)

1GB Graphics Card (ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics, the card that isn't functioning)

 

Big thanks to anyone and everyone who can be of assistance, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks

Brendon

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