Generic Non-PnP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphic Adapter

OK as Ive been looking around the site Ive noticed that there are many issues like this one, and Im sure there are plenty of people out there that have this problem...

My "Windows Experience Index" is at a 1.0 only because my Graphics, and Gaming Graphics rating are at 1.0. Everything else is at 5.9 which I can live with.

When I look at my adavanced settings for my monitor it Shows my Nvidia GPU but only running with 14 MB total avail mem. And I know that NOT right. Unfortunatly when I went to Nvidia's site and ran the auto detect it said that I didnt even have their product and that I had the Standard VGA Graphics Adapter.

I can't seem to find the right drivers for this to fix it all, and I would love to be able to "Experience" Windows 7 at its fullest. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully the attached photos will give you an idea as to what Im working with.

Also When i toubleshoot Aero Ive received this message:
"The current video card may support Aero with a driver that is compliant with the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM). Contact the manufacturer of your computer or video card for a WDDM-compatible driver."

And when I try to change my screensaver to a 3D one it states that I either need a newer graphics card or one that is compatible with Direct3D. So yeah. Thats about where Im at.

UPDATE: OK so Ive discovered exactly which GPU I have installed in my PC. It's the Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS. After realizing that I then went to Nvidia.com downloaded the most current driver installer for it (btw it was released like 2 weeks ago) and installed it. And it didn't work... I got an error message saying "Nvidia installer could not locate and drivers compatible with your current hardware." I was rather frustrated. I thought I had found the solution, but so close and no cigar. THEN I went to my device manager and of course it still states that I have the Standard VGA graphics adapter which I found out is the default setting when windows cant locate the driver for something. Anyways I tried uninstalling it and rebooted, but when it powered back on it immediately reinstalled it! So then I went to update the driver for it and choose "let me choose location" and then I was given the choice to choose drivers from a list and I did, and then I found a list of Manufacturers and found Nvidia, then I found my GPU at that point I was extremely hopeful that this was going to work, so then I tried installing the exact driver for my GPU, but to no avail I got and error message saying that it was uncompatible with my hardware.

SO now my question is... How do I get my pc to recognize my hardware without being able to install a driver for it?

Basically Windows 7 won't recognize that I have an Nvidia GeForece 8400 GS, and says that I can only use the Standard VGA. Even when I try to run the latest Nvidia driver installer it wont let me cuz it can't recognize what I actually have.

Is there a way to get the individual driver for my GPU and place it in the driver location without running an installer?

The problem here is that you have an *integrated* 8400 GS - meaning you'll need a driver for that machine. Since HP is slow about putting out the driver, perhaps you'll need to find one elsewhere.

Basically, those integrated GPUs are actually on the motherboard as opposed to separate video cards - thus the 'normal' driver will not work unless you extract the driver files and edit an .ini file to allow it to work on your system.

Your best bet is going to be finding a site that has a lot of laptop users with integrated 8400GS GPUs so you can see exactly *how* to install the latest drivers by knowing *which* file to modify and *where to modify it at.