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Solved by editing the .inf files in the Dell driver instead of the nvidia driver.
Thanks.
Solved by editing the .inf files in the Dell driver instead of the nvidia driver.
Thanks.
Great stuff.
Thanks for the update.
Sorry to post in a solved thread, but I have the same problem.
The difference is that I have an Acer Aspire 8930G. My GFx card went south for some reason almost 2 years ago. I just bought a new one, and installed it and upgraded my laptop from vista to win7 ultimate x64.
But I'm stuck on standard VGA graphics card, and this is day 5 on trying to solve this.
Bpruhs wrote that it was solved by editing the .inf files in the Dell driver instead of the nvidia driver.
How? What did he/she do?
Please help!
I have a similar issue. Multi boot GB X58-UD5,f13. Nvidia 1gb 8400GS, 12gb ram, several drives, conservative bios setup.
3x-Win7, 1x-Win8, Linux booters via EasyBCD. The win7 install on SSD blew up with some kind of glitch, source never identified. Eventually got it to get past BSOD on boot with some external cleaning. Only worked with "unsigned driver" boot option. Many system files appeared to be munged, sfc no use - hash errors making it look like the hash tables were gone too.
So I then managed a repair install-in-place (usb boot worked but not recognized from this running OS so more fun there), retaining data and some installed software.
Got only VGA video, Nvidia installers failed with the 'no hardware found' errors and a failure due to inablilty to remove a font for reinstall (found in the NV install logs). Used Revo uninstaller to clean up. Still no go. Then saw in a thread a suggestion to trash the display and VGA and let them reinstall.
VGA and video came back, but no display devices show in devmgr. Now the same NVIDIA errors not finding the NVIDIA card, running only in generic VGA mode. Before you 'AHA!' this one, the other OS installs boot and run perfectly with current display drivers. The faulty Win7 passes the relevant checks otherwise and the drive tests good. The rest of the hardware seems stable and power is in spec. One small clue is that the faulty OS _sometimes_ takes a long time in POST for a reboot. Power cycling cures this.
It seems that the next step is another 'upgrade' repair install and maybe an image save and full wipe install....bios refresh, battery, image to another drive. Yes, there are needed programs on the drive that would take a long time to get going again.
Ideas?
Last edited by lhinckley; 15 Oct 2013 at 20:47. Reason: clarification
I hassled for months, trying to get a solution to a similar problem. Nothing I did fixed it, and no help could be found. Until I discovered this NVIDIA GeForce Automatic Driver Updater
Drivers | GeForce
Ran the program, it said it had failed, but when rebooted Everything looked Great. FIXED.
Hope it works for you, or someone else.