Windows 10: upgrading to windows 10 on dell inspiron N4050 model is showing AMD graphics device is...

My dell inspiron laptop Model N4050 came with inbuilt AMD radeon graphics card of version : AMD Radeon HD 6470M.

Factory OS is windows 7. My hard disk was corrupted and i replaced a new hard disk. I did a fresh install of windows 10 on this device.


under display adapter of windows device manager, it shows device is working fine. But when i launch amd control center, under display, it shows Adapter RAM: Not available, Color Planes : Not Available, Color Table Entries : Not available, Resolution Not available, Bits/pixels not available.





Radeon catalyst is not showing up any radeon drivers.






when i try to launch radeon settings, i am getting no amd graphics driver is installed.





I tried un-installing and re-installing the driver many times but no use.Please help to let me know .whether radeon graphics card is installed properly or not. or what should be done to fix this issue.

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Windows 10 in Dell inspiron N4050

Hi boraozkhan and muhammad.

I have the same model Dell Inspiron N4050 with Intel HD3000 and AMD Radeon 7450.

I have tried almost everything under the sun to get Windows 10 working.

Unfortunately there is no support for 1st and 2nd gen Intel drivers like HD3000. It is mentioned on Intel website and they don't intend to do anything about this.

AMD has no support for switchable graphics either for Windows 10.

Neither does Dell support Windows 10 for N4050.

So you will have to roll back to Windows 8 or Windows 7 like I did.

You may try to give the new AMD Crimson drivers or the leschat Catalyst driver a try to see. I havent tried those yet since I am happy with Win 7 for now.

 

Bluetooth Problem in Dell Inspiron N4050

Hi Ujwal,

It's unfortunate that you are facing issues even after upgrading to Windows 10.

We will need to work on the errors first. Here are few threads that has users confirming solutions for this issue. Please find the links here.

For error 1079:

Error 1079 on starting Bluetooth Support Service service

For the model-Dell Inspiron N4050.

bluetooth not working for Dell Inspiron N4050 in windows 7 64bit

The steps listed can be worked on Windows 10 as well

 

Compatabilty windows 10 in dell Inspiron n4050

Hi Barun,

I have the same Dell laptop model Inspiron N4050 and tried to upgrade to Windows 10. It is unusable because there is no compatible drivers for the Switchable graphics for Intel HD3000 and AMD Radeon 7450M. You will end up with a either a black screen or
blue screen (bsod) with the current set of drivers.

Dell does not support this model for windows 10, only windows 8 which is worst than windows 7. So I reinstalled the stock Windows 7 Home Premium after trying a lot and giving up.

If it was a single graphic card model it is possible to use windows 10, like my other acer travelmate 8420 which has no problems with intel hd graphics driver.