GT335m nowhere to be found!? PLEASE HELP

So I was messing around with my drivers, trying to install the Optimus custom drivers for the M11x R1 that can be found on this forum, and I managed to mess up my drivers. My GT335m is not showing in my device manager, even when I click show disabled devices...PLEASE HELP

 

While I'm not sure how to get the custom drivers working, or what they are for that matter, I suggest you do a windows restore and restore your computer to before you installed the custom drivers. Assuming it didn't somehow damage the GT335m (Which I VERY HIGHLY doubt occurred), it will be recognized again.

 

Any other way to do it, because I would rather not restore my computer to the original state of when it was shipped out because I don't want to redownload over 100 GB of games...again!

 

System restore should have created a restore point when you installed the drivers, or right before. If not... download the Dell drivers again. Run driversweeper, completely delete all Display Drivers, reboot, reinstall the freshly downloaded Dell Drivers... will save you a bunch of time from doing a complete restore.

 

You can try system restore to take you back to a certain date. On the start menu type system restore in the search box, you will see the system restore ICON in the menu. Once you run the program it will display a list of restore points choose a date that was before your attempt to install the driver causing you problems and see what happens. If that does work then you can try to reload windows with out erasing the current installed version but i will tell you that may prove to be more problems than its worth and may not fix your problem. Good Luck

 

System restore didn't work, anymore ideas? And also to clarify, there is absolutely no sign of the GT335m in my device manager

 

I had this same problem, I had to use driversweeper and remove all display drivers. When you reboot Windows should search online for the proper drivers, or you can stop that process and install the old Dell drivers.

 

I believe I tried that, would this happen if your card burned out?

 

That I don't know. Never had one of my cards burn out.

 

Just to clarify,
When I mentioned the potential of the card burning out, the possibility is extremely small. I have never herd of the GT335m on M11x's randomly burn out, or for another component for that matter.

 

I was overclocking it at the time...

 

How high did you go?

 

540/1400/900 I think, maybe something like your stats I think

 

It's been some time since I bought my little beast and did all my test/OCing/Driver swapping... but I am pretty sure last time I OC'd too high and the driver failed, I know for a fact that Windows would not recognize I even had a 335 in my laptop. What Drivers were you using?

 

you cant damage your gpu with software... long story short, easiest way to fix your problem would be to reinstall windows.. skip the hassle and backup your important files and start fresh..

 

I doubt you killed it but just for discussion some GPUs have died according to a tech I chatted with. This was nearly 2 years ago the onsite tech mentioned that a few systems had been serviced for GPU issues.

"Died" might simply be software related issues from attempts at overclocking but he didnt say one way or the other. I doubt he would know or care.

 

I never recommend anyone to completely delete the video driver since once done, you won't be able to do windows system restores. You can always install new drivers on top of the old ones. It's the way I have always done it with no issues. When something I tried did not work, I always did a system restore to the latest point and went back to normal. You have to try to get the original dell driver from your DVD or Dell's site. If that does not work, you will have contact Dell Support unfortunately. Last thing would be a modded driver with a revised ( ).inf file (I forget the name)

 

I don't think you killed the video card. Had you done that, you would not be able to start windows before getting errors.

 

Thanks for the help from this thread. Had this problem after updating my intel driver. Now my GT335M is back

 

Fn + F6 haha I had the same noob question when I first picked up my R1.