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    8920g from ATI - nvidia, problem!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by MKultra72, May 1, 2010.

  1. MKultra72

    MKultra72 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My ATI 3650 died so i bought a 9650m gt (found it cheap on ebay), but i have a problem finding a driver, or rather a nvidia control panel, that installs. If i go to nvidia and download the latest drivers for this specific card it will just say that it doesnt find any compatible drivers for my card when i do the install. If i download the latest drivers from Acer's site (old Vista drivers), it'll install the driver but not the control panel.

    I can also install the latest Win7 drivers if i do it manually, but again, it wont install with a control panel.

    Any solution to this?

    I've reinstalled my OS (Win7 x86)
    I've updated to the latest BIOS for the notebook.

    GPUZ pic: http://piclair.com/data/c1cfv.jpg

    maybe it's just not possible to run this card with this laptop :/ maybe possbile to flash it or something?
     
  2. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

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    I came up against this on Vista with a geforcego6100... and asked about it on here.
    It seems most laptop drivers are unique and have a specific .inf file allocated to them.
    I did find by using the options in device manager and searching for "compatable hardware" that other drivers were listed by Microsoft. I made a full backup and tried installing and found a later one that worked great... and strange to say windows update only last week offered the latest NVidia driver which seems good... loads of new options in control panel.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/393954-forcing-driver-pc-how-do-you-do.html
     
  3. MKultra72

    MKultra72 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks a lot Mooly, lot of good info in that thread it seems :)