Windows 7: nVidia GeForce 8600M Drivers

Hi guys,

I have a problem with my nVidia drivers. When I first installed Windows 7, I installed the GeForce drivers (big mistake). Then I installed the automatic update of nvidia drivers that Windows 7 downloaded. This lead to problems. I have now unistalled all drivers. Windows then looked for it's own drivers, and said they were installed. However, Aero doesn't seem to be working (all taskbars are gray).
I can't download the drivers from the nVidia site, because for some reason they haven't put the Windows 7 drivers for mobile gfx cards online. I can't download the driver via Automatic Update because Windows seems to think I already installed it. Does anybody know how I can find these drivers?

Cheers!
Anarch



PS- I tried via the acer.com site, but they only have Vista/XP drivers.
PPS- I run an Acer Aspire 5520.

Nvidia forceware 181.71 Windows 7 32/64bit and Modded INF for "M" series

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Anarchitect,

Try this new driver. It's beta at the moment but was released this year. It is an original driver from Nvidea.
GeForce Release 179

Anarchitect,

Maybe this link will help you.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 186.81 WHQL

I hope your problem will be solved!

Have a nice day.

zx81

This is the same driver that came up when I searched nvidia's site for 64-bit Windows 7 drivers for my card (GeForce 8600M). I downloaded and installed these day before yesterday and had to do a system restore because it screwed so many things up. Everytime I tried to watch a streaming video on full screen my screen would freeze, several of my video games locked up, and there were a couple of other random little bugs that I can't remember.

My big problem with the generic windows driver I have now is that it keeps telling me that hardware acceleration isn't enabled and that's making a lot of things run poorly. Does anyone know a way for me to enable hardware acceleration on my machine without installing this buggy driver? Windows help doesn't even have a page on hardware acceleration. (/sigh)

I installed the Nvidia drivers downloaded from NVidia website, this was straight forward, after reboot screen resolution was ok.
Then I manually had to enable Aero, but unfortunately I forgot how I did it.

Maybe you can try to install Nvidia driver again?

Good luck!

zx81