Acer Aspire 5633 - Not Recognising Video Card!

Hi everyone, good to be here.

I'm just looking for some help really. A few days ago I purchased an Acer Aspire 5633WLMi notebook and upgraded it (!) from Vista to XP. I've managed to aquire the drivers from Acer's website support, but the driver for the video card (NVIDIA) doesn't work. It flashes up the message that it can't find the hardware to support the software so it's going to give up installation. I've opened device manager and to my horror, the video card the notebook came with is not listed, so clearly the notebook no longer realises it's got a video card attached. I've installed the driver for Intel Graphics Media Accelerator but I can tell that another driver is needed because the graphics (e.g. the start button) sometimes appear blotchy.

Can anone help with this?

 

Here is the driver from the acer-euro site. It is probably the same driver you have aready tried to use. Give it a try, also try to upgrade the driver from the Device Manager window.

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5630.html

 

Make sure you have installed the Acer motherboard (Chipset) software first. I ran into the same trouble.

 

Thanks for your suggestions. Do you mean "Chipset Driver Intel Ver.8.0.1.1002" from the link given above? If so, the problem remains. When I try to install the NVIDIA drivers from the same drop down menu, it says "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

Is there anything else I should be installing before I attempt this, or should I look for alternative drivers? Or just give up?

 

The specs show that you have a Intel GMA 950 for your vid card.

You said you have installed both the chipset drivers and the intel GMA drivers (VGA Driver Intel ver 6.14.10.4543) But the color on the screen looks blotchy.

Check the device manager and see if there is any type of check or mark next to the Display Adapter (you are looking for a red check or yellow "!") If none, click the +, left of the display adapter, you should see the name of your dispaly adapter (Intel GMA 950 or something close to that) and verify the device status (general tab on the GMA 950 properties). If it shows status is good then the driver is installed.

If the driver is installed, exit out of all your windows and right click anyway on the open desktop, you should see the dispaly properties drop down window open, click on properties and click the settings tab. Make sure the screen resolution is 1200x800 and verify that the color quality is set to the highest setting.

I hope these helps

 

Ok, look, i don't know what your AA5633 graphic card is, i assume your 5633 GPU is NVidia GeForce Go7300 as stated in other sites.

If that is the case, this is because you install desktop card's driver instead of mobile card's driver or "modded" desktop card's driver.

Get the latest "modded" driver for XP 32-bit here or 64-bit here.

Download both the Driver and Modded INF. Extract the driver into a folder and replace the original INF in the folder with the modded one. Uninstall the previous one if there's one and install your downloaded one.

Visit this site for any further driver upgrade or perhaps, downgrade.

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Agree with Skibums, some sites show that your notebook has GMA 950. So please clarify this and hope we help.

 

Thanks for trying to help. All suggestions so far have drawn a blank, sadly. Here is a screenshot of my device manager, if it helps anyone...



This shot also demonstrates the problem - look at the word 'start' on the bottom left green button. The text is not smooth... it's this that I'm trying to fix.

Thanks again....

 

What looks funny is that you have two devices in the display adapter. At this point you can try reinstalling xp and install the drivers in this order:

Chipset, Video, Audio, Lan, Touchpad, Card Reader, Bluetooth, Wireless, PCMCIA, IR, etc. (thanks SSX4life). I have had problems installing vid drivers before and this order seem to help. Ignore the drivers that do not apply.

Or get Driver Cleaner from here and see if that can remove the old vid drivers prior to reinstalling them.

 

Yes... this is indeed very weird though, backup everything and reformat see if it helps.

 

Ok, well I re-formatted and loaded the drivers in the oder suggested above and still the Nvidia ones wouldn't install. However, things do look a little better now, so I'd say problem solved. Weirdly, my driver manager still shows two entries for display adaptors, I don't know why.