Okay guys, I'm at my wits end.
In the device manager, there are two entries for the video card, one being called secondary. The primary one has a code 12.
When I load up Windows, and the ATI control panel goes to load, it gives me an error saying that the driver is either not installed or not installed correctly and then proceeds to close.
I have disabled the onboard video in safe mode, uninstalled the onboard video drivers, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the ATI drivers about a million different times in a million different ways.
According to e-machines tech support, you can't disable onboard video in the BIOS.
ATI tech support told me that I needed to upgrade my BIOS (and that this problem was common on e-machines) but then e-machines proceeded to tell me that there was not a BIOS update available for my machine.
So one big resounding WTF from me.
As for my specs, I am not entirely sure how to give them to you, but here is a link to my particular model on e-machines website.
I recently upped the RAM to 768MB.
At this point I am just wondering if I ought to save up my money for a better machine.
In the device manager, there are two entries for the video card, one being called secondary. The primary one has a code 12.
When I load up Windows, and the ATI control panel goes to load, it gives me an error saying that the driver is either not installed or not installed correctly and then proceeds to close.
I have disabled the onboard video in safe mode, uninstalled the onboard video drivers, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the ATI drivers about a million different times in a million different ways.
According to e-machines tech support, you can't disable onboard video in the BIOS.
ATI tech support told me that I needed to upgrade my BIOS (and that this problem was common on e-machines) but then e-machines proceeded to tell me that there was not a BIOS update available for my machine.
So one big resounding WTF from me.
As for my specs, I am not entirely sure how to give them to you, but here is a link to my particular model on e-machines website.
I recently upped the RAM to 768MB.
At this point I am just wondering if I ought to save up my money for a better machine.