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Dedicated card not recognized

post #1 of 8
8/10/10 at 7:37pm
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I reinstalled windows on the "Acer Aspire 5745G" and when i go to reinstall the video drivers (Nvidia GeForce 330M) it cant install it because i dont have the video card. I tried the drivers first from the Acer site and then from nvidia, but neither worked. I checked in the Device Manager if it is being recognized but is not, the only thing is a Standard VGA Adapter. The laptop did NOT come with any kind of recovery cd or windows 7 cd . I searched on Google but with no results. Could someone help please
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post #2 of 8
8/10/10 at 7:46pm
...In the last several years, manufacturers have not been sending recovery cd's/DVDs, but giving the purchaser the software on the machine to make your own...the explanation of how to do it was in your user manual
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post #3 of 8
8/10/10 at 7:53pm
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I guess its my bad that i didnt make a back up dvd (well 3 dvds), also i checked the manuals and they have nothing in them...
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post #4 of 8
8/10/10 at 8:00pm
Did you re-install everything else on the ACER support site? Chipset driver per example?

cheers ...
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post #5 of 8
8/10/10 at 8:21pm
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Yeah did all the drivers that i could from the support site. The intel chipset driver installed fine, there was a Intel vga driver too and it did not install.

Or does anyone have the Acer Update Manager setup? I cant find that anywhere even though it was included in the original install.
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post #6 of 8
8/20/10 at 12:31pm
press the power saving button
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post #7 of 8
8/21/10 at 8:21am
Are you running windows7? Duh, yes you are... It should install the driver automatically - do a windows update and then try forcing a driver install... To do this go into device manager and right click on the video device and go into its properties... Click on the 'Update Driver' button and choose a) not to connect to the internet to search and b)I will install the driver myself... Windows should go into search mode and then give you a drop down list of devices.. Choose Display adaptor and look through the list if nVidia is there for your specific card... If it is not present, choose 'Have Disk' and browse to your folder were the expanded nVidia files are and look for the .inf file.. It should force the install...
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post #8 of 8
8/21/10 at 8:36pm
sometimes, for hybrid graphics. you have to go into the bios, change from hybrid to discrete, boot to the os and load the discrete drivers. then go back in and set it back to hybrid.
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