I recently ordered a 9750 from powernotebooks with these specs:
Sager NP9750 FORCE
17" WUXGA "Super Clear Glossy" TFT Active Matrix screen
nVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX with 256MB Embedded GDDR3 memory
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ w/ 1024KB L2 cache per core (2MB Total)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
2,048MB (2 SODIMMS) PC3200 DDR400 Memory
80GB SATA/150 Hard Drive at 7,200 RPM
RAID Disabled
Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive w/Softwares
External USB Floppy Drive
Built-in 802.11g Wireless LAN Card
Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
Full Range Auto Switching AC Adapter
Standard Carrying Case
No Operating System
It just arrived yesterday and I finished installing Windows XP Pro today.
Upon starting up, I pressed F2 to check the BIOS settings and everything looked fine. Note: these settings state "VGA Card: GeForce 7900 GTX" so I know the hardware is at least in the notebook.
After getting to the desktop for the first time, I decide to install all the necessary drivers, etc. I go to the control panel, check display settings, and to my surprise, see this:
Hmm... strange... it doesn't seem to detect the 7900 GTX. At first I thought it was just because the driver wasn't installed so I went on over to nvidia.com. The 7900 GTX driver isn't in the main driver listing (I'm guessing because it's relatively new still) but after a quick search I found it as a beta driver (along with the 7950 and others). I downloaded it and began the installation, but ran across the error message that it didn't detect the appropriate hardware or something like that. Weird... I went ahead and tried downloading their generic, non-beta, driver and had the same error there too.
So basically I have a notebook with a powerful video card inside... that I can't use. Please help!
Sager NP9750 FORCE
17" WUXGA "Super Clear Glossy" TFT Active Matrix screen
nVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX with 256MB Embedded GDDR3 memory
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ w/ 1024KB L2 cache per core (2MB Total)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
2,048MB (2 SODIMMS) PC3200 DDR400 Memory
80GB SATA/150 Hard Drive at 7,200 RPM
RAID Disabled
Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive w/Softwares
External USB Floppy Drive
Built-in 802.11g Wireless LAN Card
Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
Full Range Auto Switching AC Adapter
Standard Carrying Case
No Operating System
It just arrived yesterday and I finished installing Windows XP Pro today.
Upon starting up, I pressed F2 to check the BIOS settings and everything looked fine. Note: these settings state "VGA Card: GeForce 7900 GTX" so I know the hardware is at least in the notebook.
After getting to the desktop for the first time, I decide to install all the necessary drivers, etc. I go to the control panel, check display settings, and to my surprise, see this:
Hmm... strange... it doesn't seem to detect the 7900 GTX. At first I thought it was just because the driver wasn't installed so I went on over to nvidia.com. The 7900 GTX driver isn't in the main driver listing (I'm guessing because it's relatively new still) but after a quick search I found it as a beta driver (along with the 7950 and others). I downloaded it and began the installation, but ran across the error message that it didn't detect the appropriate hardware or something like that. Weird... I went ahead and tried downloading their generic, non-beta, driver and had the same error there too.
So basically I have a notebook with a powerful video card inside... that I can't use. Please help!
