Problems with drivers after downgrading to from W8 to W7

Chillosaurus Rex

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Hi all,

I have an Acer Aspire V5-122P with an AMD Radeon HD 8210 card.
I downgraded to Windows 7 (as the hardware isn't really up to scratch for Windows 8 - only a 1GHz CPU) with relative ease.
However, I cannot find working drivers. I have tried the AMD Catalyst Control Centre which downloaded drivers, I also tried specifically getting older drivers, most recently AMD VGA 12.102.1.1. Each time I restart after installing these drivers, I met with a black screen after startup. The computer itself is working fine at this point, it is the display that isn't.

Does anyone have any ideas or perhaps some links to older drivers? (They're a pain to find for AMD)
It's quite frustrating as it prevents me from using any kind of multiscreen capability or playing any kind of game.

Thanks
 

Chillosaurus Rex

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Managed to fix the issue.
The main problem was using the Catalyst Control Centre to automatically search for drivers, which picked up W8 drivers and caused black screen issues.
Manually choose 'Notebook Graphics', 'Radeon HD Series', followed by 'Radeon HD 8xxxM', and finally 'Windows 7'.
This picked up the 15.4 driver and works fine.