Acer Aspire 4745G Windows 8 Driver

Either you are planning to install windows 8 or already have windows 8 on your system, you will need to install 2 drivers which is the graphic and the touchpad. If you have 2 VGA (switchable graphic) ATI (AMD) and Intel graphic,  don;t worry about the intel graphic because windows will automatically install the drivers and also available via windows updates.

Important: Do not install ATI (AMD) Driver using windows update, If you did, uninstall the updates first before proceed with the driver installation.


A. Drivers
We only need 2 drivers which is

ATI HD 5000 series (5450 or 5650 etc)
Version 8.84.7.4  218MB
Download

Touchpad driver. : Download

B. Graphic Installation.

1. we need to install the graphic manually using device manager. To open device manager Right-click on the Start screen icon then click on Device Manager.

2. Extract  VGA_AMD_8.84.7.4_W7x64_A.zip and remember the location.

3. On the device manager right click on standard VGA and select update driver
4. Select browse my computer for driver software.\
5. Select "Let me pick from a device driver from my computer".
6. Click NEXT and the select HAVE DISK the click BROWSE.
7. Now point to the driver folder we extracted earlier and select the avilable INF file.
8. Continue with on screen instruction until installation finish.