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    Help - Intel drivers not detected

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by zipidy928, Jun 1, 2012.

  1. zipidy928

    zipidy928 Notebook Geek

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    Hi guys,

    I really need your help!

    When I got my laptop, I did a clean install following the guide and was able to install all the drivers fine.

    I installed all my applications and everything works fine.

    I thought I would do a clean install again just to practice.

    Before I did my 2nd clean install, I did a Fn+F7 and ran solely on the 7970M.
    I also opened the computer and added 16GB of ram on top of my previously added 16GB before my first clean install. The second set of RAM was installed under the keyboard.

    When Windows finished installing, I am at driver step 5 (intel video drivers) and when I tried to install it it said that "your PC does not meet the minimum requirements...". I disregarded the error message and went to the next step and installed the 7970M drivers and so on. All drivers installed fine except for the intel video drivers. I even tried disabling the 7970m from device manager and rebooted but same results.

    I did however notice that on the BIOS, the integrated graphics states: not available/not detected (forgot which one).

    I was very careful when opening the laptop and I dont believe I broke it when installing the RAM.

    Any help is much appreciated.
     
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    zipidy928 Notebook Geek

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    Never mind I figured it out. All I had to do was reset the bios.