N56vz does not recognize graphic adapters

After a last minute hardware failure of the drive with pre-installed Win 8, I was forced to come up with a short term solution and have thus re-installed the drive from my old Acer Ferrari 200 with Win 7 64-bit, to this machine.

After cleaning from old drivers and re-installing new from the Asus website, all works except for the graphics adapters. I get the following error on the Intel HD 4000 adapter;

"This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)"

(Please, see attached pdf with images from Device Manager)

The GT650M installed without errors but the computer does not switch to it. Instead I am stuck with Microsoft's generic VGASAVE driver and nothing seems to change that.

I have researched for several days and done the following;

1) Installed drivers in the order; Intel Chipset -> HD4000 -> Nvidia, but no change

2) Done a "clean" hardware re-install with SYSPREP, no change.

3) Tried disabling sound and other non-critical drivers to see if resources are freed, but to no prevail.

As this machine is for work, it is really important that at least it runs of the GT650M so that the graphics do not become a bottle neck (I use CAD and image editing software all the time).

So, before I can make a clean Win 8 install and hope it goes away, I need for now to make it work with the current Win 7 install. Main question (besides a solution) is however there is a way to override VGASAVE and to make the 650M the main card for now?

Hope you guys on this great forum can help me out! It has been a quite a few sleepless nights trying to figure this one out ;-)

 

hahaha. Crazy.

Have you tried downloading an hd4000 driver from intel's pages, and installed it in safe-mode? Could be you have the desktop version of the driver installed - and I think that driver will force a different setup with an exclusive frontbuffer. So if you have optimus then, the graphics card will switch context as well as memory area. The kepler optimus setup is a bit different - it uses the hd4000 buffer to draw to, so the intel graphics is active all the time, even when you're really running something on the nvidia card.

Update the nvidia driver as well. The later ones are extremely much better. But the culprit is the hd4000 driver.

Another thing - did you just run an update on the bios? 215, 216? They had a vbios update - I'd like to know if this could actually cause a conflict with the earlier hd4000 drivers.. Would save me some problems to know when updating later..