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    AMD driver installed on my Y510P?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by D4n1EL, Oct 13, 2014.

  1. D4n1EL

    D4n1EL Notebook Guru

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    After a clean install of W8.1 on my Y510P, I used this driver updater software. After installing the drivers I now have this driver installed on my Y510P and it seems to be from AMD. Is this needed or not, what is it for?
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  2. pigulici

    pigulici Notebook Guru

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    What driver update software you used? I don't think amd drivers have something to do in y510p, I usually, for laptops, download the last drivers from lenovo website; I tested some driver update software, and at some point, break something, so I stay to official website manufacturer...
     
  3. glewarne

    glewarne Notebook Guru

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    there could be some variant of the machine with some AMD hardware, and Lenovo just mass produce windows images with every possible combination of hardware supported and load it on to all machines. I have seen similar things with acer and hp in the past. I would not worry about it
     
  4. NonXtreme

    NonXtreme Newbie

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    There is no such a thing as AMD variant of Y510P or any AMD hardware on it. So what on your laptop is some useless driver that doesn't work. You can uninstall it.

    Well, I have never trust any driver updater software since it tend to download garbage along with the right driver to make sure they doesn't miss any driver for your pc.
    For me, I always recognise each hardware on my pc first then download each driver from manufacturer site and install manually.
     
  5. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    Just don't go overboard and delete any AMD64 folder in the \Windows directory. You will brick your OS. :laugh:
     
  6. D4n1EL

    D4n1EL Notebook Guru

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    Have any of you seen a driver like this installed in your Y510P? Would you guys recommend uninstalling it?
    I used Auslogics Driver Updater, and Advance Driver Updater. I know, I went a little overboard with it by installing two software's that most of you find suspicious.
    I just tried comparing which of the two detected the most drivers. .