{"id":46,"date":"2010-05-10T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-06-24T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:19:40","slug":"w500-and-the-ati-firegl-v5700-on-xp64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/w500-and-the-ati-firegl-v5700-on-xp64\/","title":{"rendered":"W500 and the ATI FireGL V5700 on XP64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a way to get the ATI FireGL V5700 drivers onto Windows XP 64 bit on the Lenovo W500.  It wasn&#8217;t easy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo doesn&#8217;t package drivers for this chip, as far I could tell.  But HP does make XP64 drivers.  The problem is that they won&#8217;t install, unless you alter some files.<\/p>\n<p>Find the ATI video drivers for HP&#8217;s EliteBook 8530w.  Try to install them.  This won&#8217;t work, complaining about system requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Go to c:\\SwSetup\\SP44851\\Driver and edit all the INI files you can find here.  Change any occurrence of the string 3604103C to 212717AA (I think including in the XP64A_INF directory).  Then run Setup.exe and the driver install takes.<\/p>\n<p>I found that after a restart Windows reset the driver to Microsoft&#8217;s default VGA.  Go to the device manager and do a rollback to the ATI driver and it sticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a way to get the ATI FireGL V5700 drivers onto Windows XP 64 bit on the Lenovo W500. It wasn&#8217;t easy&#8230; Lenovo doesn&#8217;t package drivers for this chip, as far I could tell. But HP does make XP64 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/w500-and-the-ati-firegl-v5700-on-xp64\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13,11,12],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-drivers","tag-w500","tag-xp64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otherroute.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}