S
Sensitive New Age Thug
Hi,
I'm using a Sony PCG-K13 laptop. It uses the Radeon IGP 345M chipset, for
video display, I guess. That terminology might not be quite right.
Trying to use Google Earth causes a severe system crash, forcing Windows to
quit altogether. The error message says there is a problem with the driver, I
think.
At first, I thought there might be a driver corruption problem, or a hard
disk directory error, or something. But now that I've googled around, it
looks like the driver for the video display is obsolete. It also looks like
neither Sony nor ATI has updated the driver, and probably never will.
I guess Sony wants me to buy a new Sony laptop. That isn't going to happen.
If I knew then what I know now, I would not have bought a Sony.
So, maybe Google Earth just won't work on my computer.
On some forums, users have suggested an independently developed (hacked,
apparently) driver update on
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
I don't know if this is a good idea. I don't know if this is a trustworthy
site.
Advice? Suggestions?
Thanks,
Tim
I'm using a Sony PCG-K13 laptop. It uses the Radeon IGP 345M chipset, for
video display, I guess. That terminology might not be quite right.
Trying to use Google Earth causes a severe system crash, forcing Windows to
quit altogether. The error message says there is a problem with the driver, I
think.
At first, I thought there might be a driver corruption problem, or a hard
disk directory error, or something. But now that I've googled around, it
looks like the driver for the video display is obsolete. It also looks like
neither Sony nor ATI has updated the driver, and probably never will.
I guess Sony wants me to buy a new Sony laptop. That isn't going to happen.
If I knew then what I know now, I would not have bought a Sony.
So, maybe Google Earth just won't work on my computer.
On some forums, users have suggested an independently developed (hacked,
apparently) driver update on
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
I don't know if this is a good idea. I don't know if this is a trustworthy
site.
Advice? Suggestions?
Thanks,
Tim