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    p-6831FX not detecting 8800m after reinstall

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by geo3tech, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. geo3tech

    geo3tech Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys. I was able to buy this laptop today and i didn't like all the bloatwares so i reinstalled windows vista 32bit using the cd that the laptop came with. But i have a problem now. Whenever i try to install the 169.44 driver, it doesn't says it does not detect any hardware compatible. Also, whenever I go into device manager, it says "standard vga graphic adaptor".

    This is what I have done so far. I tried ....
    1. Uninstall the driver of standard vga graphic adaptor and restarted windows, but it keeps updating by itself by vista.
    2. Disabled the standard vga graphic adaptor and ran the 169.44 driver install and it still didn't detect any hardware compatible.

    Problem is that i do not see a "8800M GTS" anywhere; including device manager or anything. Is there something that i need to do for vista to detect the graphic card at all?
     
    geo3tech, Mar 8, 2008
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    Did you use the modded inf?
     
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    id10t error dfw, Mar 8, 2008
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