Amd drivers and ccc not installing

[antoipod]

So I decided to install an r7 240 into an old computer running windows xp media center edition and a pentium d 805. I tried installing the drivers from the amd site: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows XP Media Center Edition but nothing happened... after a restart AMD CCC was nowhere to be found and the gpu not recognized, I used DDU to uninstall it and try again and it still didn't work so I reinstalled windows and and restored to factory settings and tried installing the drivers again but like the previous tries it would say everything is installed but windows would still not recognize the GPU and CCC would still not be installed. I am inexperienced when it comes to drivers so am I doing something obviously wrong?

[Mr.Meerkat]

XP...  

I mean your CPU was released 2 years after Vista came out...it's possible that XP is just too old that the drivers aren't actually made for XP, your GPU technically came out in 2013/2014 where that's 12-13 years after XP was released...

 

Edit: Whoops, forgot to actually give suggestions on how to solve your issue...sorry  

 

Anyway, try re-downloading the drivers, downloading older drivers (search em up) ect.

Are you trying to game or something? I mean the generic drivers would more or less work fine for basic usage...

[antoipod]

4 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

XP...  

I mean your CPU was released 2 years after Vista came out...it's possible that XP is just too old that the drivers aren't actually made for XP, your GPU technically came out in 2013/2014 where that's 12-13 years after XP was released...

 

 

I would upgrade to windows 10( the free unactivated one) but I doubt it would run well with 1gb of ddr2 so im stuck with xp . The driver also said it was for windows xp so I don't think that would be too much of an issue. I noticed the motherboard has ati xpress 200 integrated graphics, could that be conflicting?

Catalyst 14.4 & Graphics Driver Installer for Windows XP 32-Bit

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, antoipod said:

I would upgrade to windows 10( the free unactivated one) but I doubt it would run well with 1gb of ddr2 so im stuck with xp . The driver also said it was for windows xp so I don't think that would be too much of an issue. I noticed the motherboard has ati xpress 200 integrated graphics, could that be conflicting?

Catalyst 14.4 & Graphics Driver Installer for Windows XP 32-Bit

I edited my original post as I forgot to actually help  

 

From the link you listed, it says it's for the media version of XP (whatever that means) so maybe just download the "normal" 32bit XP drivers? Not like I can see a difference between them...

[antoipod]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I edited my original post as I forgot to actually help  

 

From the link you listed, it says it's for the media version of XP (whatever that means) so maybe just download the "normal" 32bit XP drivers? Not like I can see a difference between them...

 

Im running xp media center, plan to practice overclocking on that pc and maybe use it as a home theater pc if it survives.  Sorry but I didn't quite get what you meant by "downloading older drivers (search em up) ect. "

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, antoipod said:

downloading older drivers

Like searching it in google and downloading older drivers from a manufacturer's website or something that provides other/older drivers rather than AMD's as they only have the newest where as others may have older drivers which may work  

 

For example:

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/support/R7-240-2GD3-LP.html#down-driver&XP 32

13.9 drivers vs the 14.4 on AMD's website

 

Yes, I usually wouldn't recommend doing this but if the drivers on AMD's website doesn't work then you can only try older drivers where something like the thing I linked above supplies  

[antoipod]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Like searching it in google and downloading older drivers from a manufacturer's website or something that provides other/older drivers rather than AMD's as they only have the newest where as others may have older drivers which may work  

 

For example:

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/support/R7-240-2GD3-LP.html#down-driver&XP 32

13.9 drivers vs the 14.4 on AMD's website

 

Yes, I usually wouldn't recommend doing this but if the drivers on AMD's website doesn't work then you can only try older drivers where something like the thing I linked above supplies  

 

will those drivers work even if I don't have the msi version? I have no idea who is the manufacturer of my r7 240 since I got it from a prebuild pc and it has no logo or anything

[Mr.Meerkat]

20 hours ago, antoipod said:

will those drivers work even if I don't have the msi version? I have no idea who is the manufacturer of my r7 240 since I got it from a prebuild pc and it has no logo or anything

Yes as they are usually just the AMD drivers...but on their website