M17xR3 graphics card problem?? Please help

I have a M17xR3, which i just got recently, and it seems like my 6970m isnt working. So i checked my device manager and it isnt listed under the display drivers. All i see is the Intel 3000 HD driver but no 6970. Please help me get it back or get it working again. Thank you

 

Which graphics driver did you install?

 

I installed the Intel HD 3000 driver and tried the AMD driver but still nothing. Is there a certain way to do it?

 

Actually when i try the driver from the AMD site it says "The version of your graphics card is not supported."

 

Did you try the version off the Dell website that's for your M17xR3?

 

Yes, and it still seems to be stuck on the IGP. Ive tried many things. If i reformat with the disks and everything will it go back to normal. Im desperate at this point.

 

Or if someone can guide me through on how to reformat my laptop with all the correct drivers I'd apreciate it

 

this happened to me too when it installed the new win 7 updates i respawned everything was fine and just to make sure i updated again same thing happened doing a 2nd respawn now

 

So just do a respawn? Would I have to get drivers to install?

 

what you need to do is download the amd driver from dell. Then go to device manager and unistall the driver from intel. Restart then install the driver you downloaded.

 

try resetting your bios, take out the coin battery and do a power drain. member to set date and time and hdd setting afterwards. then check to see if the other display adapter shows up.

 

If you restore using the respawn disks you created you will not need to install any drivers (assuming you're system came with all the drivers installed ofcourse).

However, if you want to do a clean install its a very simple process:

1) Backup everything.
2) Insert Windows CD which came with your machine and boot from it.
3) Then just follow the process and I prefer to format the hard disks usually.
4) Once you managed to login to your freshly installed windows take a look here. Read this before you start installing windows. Download all the drivers before fresh install.
5) After installing the drivers take a look here

You're done!

 

I uninstalled the intel driver, restarted then installed the amd driver from the Dell site and nothing happened. What am I doing wrong?

 

Whenever I install the amd driver it finishes with the ati catalyst saying " installation complete (warnings occurrd during installation). View log" and there is a yellow "?" to the left of it. It seems like it changed nothing

 

I uninstalled intel then restarted, then installed amd then restarted. It worked then my computer when to sleep and wouldn't wake up, so I did a hard reset. Then when it booted it went back to standard VGA, so I installed the amd and restarted and nothing what do I do?

 

So I did alienrespawn, I'm afraid to turn off my computer lol so I just put it on sleep mode when it's not in use, it seems to work for now

 

when your computer wont wake up. or it it goes totally black screen. Hit the FN+F4 or brightness key it should wake it back up.

 

Now when i turned on my system the screen went white so i reset it and now the driver is gone again! What do i do?