Continue through the process, and you'll have a driver meant for your video card installed. When asked two options in reference to your driver, select the SECOND (bottom) option. To bypass this, RIGHT CLICK on the Vista 64 bit driver after you download it, and select TROUBLESHOOT COMPATIBILITY. If you try to update with the Vista driver by selecting Update Driver from Device Manager, you'll be told the latest driver is already installed (the generic Windows 10 driver.) To install, you must FORCE Windows to take the older Vista driver. Select the driver to download: WINDOWS VISTA-64 BIT EDITION Here is a working link to download the driver from ATI. Windows 10 uses a generic video driver, which does work, but when using a 64 bit driver meant for the video card back in the days of Vista, the video becomes a lot crisper, and the driver seems to work just as well as the generic video driver supplied by Windows 10. Use the Vista 64 bit driver for the ATI Radeon xPress 1150 video card on Windows 10. If anyone is searching for the solution to the question above, I figured it out. I wondered if it was a driver issue with the video card, so I found a legacy driver for an older Windows OS in 64 bit (can't remember if it was a Vista or Windows 7 driver,) but it works, but doesn't resolve the issue.īios 2.6.3 (final bios release from Dell)Īny advice would be appreciated on resolving the choppy streaming playback. The only exception is watching, say, a youtube video. It's not lightning fast, but it's acceptable. I've had Linux Mint 64 bit installed on it before, but I want my daughter to have a Windows machine at home for bare bones tasks (basic web browsing, email, word processing,) as well as having the computer's OS compatible with her school. If it doesn't, I will have the laptop recycled. I want to test it to make sure it works, as well as being realistic to use, on the laptop.

I found it, and all the hardware is listed as working properly, with the Windows 10 drivers. The install went fine, short of having to find and install a driver for the Ricoh card reader. I have downloaded the 64 bit version of Windows 10 Home install disk onto a usb flash drive, and did a fresh install of the OS onto the laptop.

I have wiped the hard drive (it's a 300GB 7200 rpm drive that I added,) and installed 4GB of RAM. This being said, the architecture of the laptop is 64 bit. I was purchased in 2007 with Windows XP 32 bit.

Dell 1720 driver 64 bit