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need help missing drivers after re-install

  • 03-08-2008 7:53pm
    #1
    mob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭


    not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes anyway:

    i had to reinstall windows last week on my laptop my recovery disks had been damaged so i had to use anther copy of windows i had i've got all my drivers back working apart from video controler and video controler (vga compatable)
    i've been all over the internet looking for it but i can't find the driver i'm suppoet to have a nvida gforce6600 but when i downloaded the drivers from there website it wouldn't install saying there no drivers found for my computer. Can anyone help??

    my laptop is a Advent 6001

    found this info about the laptop


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  • #2
    uberpixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭uberpixie


    mob wrote: »
    not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes anyway:

    i had to reinstall windows last week on my laptop my recovery disks had been damaged so i had to use anther copy of windows i had i've got all my drivers back working apart from video controler and video controler (vga compatable)
    i've been all over the internet looking for it but i can't find the driver i'm suppoet to have a nvida gforce6600 but when i downloaded the drivers from there website it wouldn't install saying there no drivers found for my computer. Can anyone help??

    my laptop is a Advent 6001

    found this info about the laptop

    Try here:
    http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia.php

    Worth a go.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    to clarify you got the nvidia driver from their website and it didnt work?

    Here download this system overview tool Everest: http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

    It should tell you exactly what hardware you have.


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Drivers won't work with mobile hardware unless the inf is modified to recognise that hardware (which it doesn't by default) - www.laptopvideo2go.com, download whatever forceware drivers you want but downloaded the modifed inf file as well to go with it and replace the stock one in the extracted folder...

    The other solution is just to use the Advent drivers, but they're probably ancient - don't use too new drivers, they won't be optimized for such an old card, I'd say the old 70.xx or 80.xx forceware would be best for that class of card, look around Laptopvideo2go, they have lots of benchmarks on varying cards (old to new, low end to high end) on the different driver sets to show how they perform.


  • #5
    mob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭mob


    thanks for the help lads. i got it sorted at last


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