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    gforce go 7400 on vista??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ahmednagy5, Feb 2, 2007.

  1. ahmednagy5

    ahmednagy5 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have ran the Vista upgrade advisor on mt dv 6183 ea and it tells me that the Gforce 7400 isnt supported and i cany find driver for it for vista ,neither on nividia or HP website,any ideas.anyone has vista on this VGA.
     
    ahmednagy5, Feb 2, 2007
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    I had the same problem. It told me my 7400 was not supported. When I first installed Vista Microsoft found a Vista driver and installed it. Don't worry it will work. The drivers themselves are not very good but they work Aero fine. I have not tried gaming yet but my benchmarks were about 500 lower than running under XP. I guess Nvidia drivers are not to hot yet.
     
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    Lots of people are having the same problem. My problem is I cant get my wireless to work
     
    mtor, Feb 2, 2007
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    man the wireless driver for vista has just been releasd today,jut go to driver downloads on HP.com,choose your model carefeully ,and u will find a bios upgrade for vista and wireless driver for vista,please let me know if this worked for you?
     
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    The official HP Vista driver for Nvidia cards is quite old, so I didn't bother posting most of them in the driver thread. The ones Windows gets off of Windows Update are newer, as are the ones you can get from www.laptopvideo2go.com . As Whale mentioned, though, Nvidia is way behind in their driver development, so none of the drivers have the full functionality or speed of the XP ones.
     
    JadedRaverLA, Feb 2, 2007
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    As of right now, driver support for Vista is relatively low...we're all going to experience problems for the next few months (most likely). I for one am not upgrading until ALL my devices and drivers are guaranteed to work...even my $60 scanner that is two years old.
     
    Greg, Feb 2, 2007
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