- Before installing the driver, you have to edit a policy to disable Windows Update trying to replace your driver. Follow this guide and only do this part Disable automatic driver install from Registry.
- Download DDU Uninstaller.
- Download latest drivers for AMD Ryzen 7 processor with Graphics and get the one that is for 7840U (AMD Driver website). Make sure that you don’t download the Auto Detect version, download the complete one.
- Reboot windows into safe mode (Use option 2) (safe mode is NOT needed–use only if issues)
- Reboot windows and it will do a normal boot.
- Delete C:\AMD folder.
- Double click the driver setup file you downloaded in Step 2, it will extract all the files and then try to install it but it will fail (it’s as expected).
- Open device manager in windows and locate Displays and click the one that says Microsoft Basic Display Driver then right click on it and select update driver.
- Select the second option, the one that says browse my local computer, then in the next windows select let me pick the driver.
- In that screen, click have a disk and browse the C:\AMD\AMD-Software-Installer\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF\ folder there should be a INF file (for this version file name is u0400566.inf, if that file is not there because newer version, there should be a similar named one).
- Once the INF is selected click OK and a list of drivers will show, scroll and select the one that says Radeon 780M Graphics (it must say Graphics at the end).
- Click OK and driver will begin to install.
- Once driver is installed, you have to install the Adrenaline Software (AMS Settings app), this is also located at C:\AMD\AMD-Software-Installer\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF folder inside a subfolder currently named B400392, the file name is ccc2_install.exe.
- Reboot the Go and driver/application is ready.
- Open AMD Settings and select Default as profile, Integer Scaling works with this driver.
Sideload AMD 780M Graphics driver (+ use an AMD Radeon eGPU
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