Video Card not recognized

I have an Acer 5920 laptop. for specs : http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/acer-aspire-5920/4505-3121_7-32461074.html

Anyhoo I have had a long and complicated history with the product. I bought it back in March. Then, I got a virus on the system. I did not get a restore CD with the laptop so I installed XP on the laptop (initially it came with Vista). This installation was on a separate hard drive than what came initially with the laptop. Also, my monitor got broken so I had to replace it with one from an older HP laptop of mine.

Now the product had some problems, but ran with XP fine. There were problems with my video card since the drivers I needed to install were integrated with Vista.

Now, I finally reinstalled Vista on the laptop. Everything is almost back to normal... except I have one BIG problem. My device control reads that I have a "standard vga video adapter" for my video card. This is entirely false as I have an Nvideo card.

I have tried installing drivers from Acer's website but to no avail. I have gotten the error message :"Nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware"

I feel like I am out of options and any helpful advice will be greatfully apreciated.

 

Use these, make sure you read the guide.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/vista/177.92

 

Nope, tried, used the modded inf file that the site gave me and when I went to run the Nvidia setup I still received: "nVidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

I appreciate the answer though.

 

Apparently you didn't followed the guide, because the whole point of it is to FORCE Windows XP to use the driver. And in that case XP doesn't have a choice and installs it.
Download both the driver and the modded INF from laptopvideo2go.com as @Lithus suggested. Make sure they are both the same version! Check the "Have Disk" guide. Follow the guide. DO NOT RUN NVIDIA SETUP!