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Vaio Laptop Video Driver

  • 23-05-2010 3:01pm
    #1
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭


    I had Windows 7 Ultimate working on a Vaio Laptop perfectly for the last 5 months and all of a sudden it would boot to the windows logo and just hang.

    I eventually decided to reinstall from scratch & am booting fine to the desktop now.

    My problem now is that I can't get the graphics driver installed. It's showing as a standard VGA adapter when I know it has a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 with Turbo cache.

    When I try to update the driver it just say's that Windows already has the best driver for the device!!!! :(

    -

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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  • #2
    Lab_Mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Lab_Mouse


    try the nvidia site for the latest drivers.

    Had a gaming laptop years ago and for some reason nvidia didnt support some mobile models(might have changed since)I got the drivers off this site http://www.omegadrivers.net/


  • #3
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Lab_Mouse wrote: »
    try the nvidia site for the latest drivers.

    Had a gaming laptop years ago and for some reason nvidia didnt support some mobile models(might have changed since)I got the drivers off this site http://www.omegadrivers.net/

    I have got the driver from the NVIDIA site & the fact that it ran perfectly for five months tells me it can be sorted but Windows isn't having any of it for whatever reason :(

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #4
    Lab_Mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Lab_Mouse


    Perhaps try and find an older driver if the one you are getting of the nvidia site is possibly a newer version than the one your laptop shipped with?


  • #5
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Found an older Vista driver & it installed fine.

    Funny how the official NVIDIA Win7 driver would not work? It is a VAIO we're dealing with though!!! :D

    Thanks for the replies & advice Lab_Mouse ;)

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #6
    Lab_Mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Lab_Mouse


    no problem..glad you got it sorted.


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  • #7
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    sony have dedicated drivers for gfx, vanilla rarely work on vaois


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