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A note to owners of an eMachine M6805, M6809 or M6811 notebook

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When the first M6805 appeared on the market, I ordered one. It was one of the first publicly available 64-bit notebooks, powered by AMD’s Athlon64 processor. Nice box. I still use it as a print-, file- and web server on the Intranet.

I just got notice from Mike Wall, Mike is senior member of technical staff at AMD, he found yout how to update your ATI driver for these systems. Here’s what he wrote:

"If anyone has an Athlon 64 Emachines M6805, M6809, M6811 notebook and you're running 64-bit Windows, here is how to get the ATI graphic driver to work properly:
https://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=74785 (thanks to an AMD Forum user for posting the link)

I used this procedure with the brand new Catalyst 5.7 x64 driver from the ATI web site, and it works great! After patching the .inf file and installing the driver, I could then install the Control Panel (note: that's Control Panel, not Catalyst Control Center) and it enabled PowerPlay, SmartGart, and the other ATI features. And the notebook now supports the native 1280x800 rez, and it gets all the nice performance enhancements and bug fixes ATI implemented in the latest driver.

FINALLY a fully working graphic driver for this fine notebook!

-MW"

Haven’t tried it but if Mike says it works, it sure works. Happy updating.