Windows 7 doesnt see my gforce 8600 gt

I got a nice one... Windows 7 doesnt show any display drivers/devices in device manager.. Therefore I cant install any drivers..

Anyone smart enough to crack this? Anyway I am not

Kind Regards

Edit: Its a 7600 GT

Ptor said:

I got a nice one... Windows 7 doesnt show any display drivers/devices in device manager.. Therefore I cant install any drivers..

Anyone smart enough to crack this? Anyway I am not

Kind Regards

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Hi Ptor....... welcome to the se7en forums


have you tried re seating the card since you installed W7..??

have you got any GPU monitoring software on there..?? anything that might show the presence of the card even without drivers..??

you may need to try the card in another machine, just to rule out the possibility it my have died..



SK

Well thank you.. The card didnt die, I have dual boot and xp still runs like it used too..

Me and a mate think we have found the problem.. just no solution yet..

My motherboard is an Asus P5RD1-VM wich uses ULI drivers... And asus offers all kind of drivers except for my board. So my chipset isnt installed properly... So we think to know the problem..

The solution is harder.. we cant find drivers on the net.. xD

Maybe this bit of extra info helps out..

Kind Regards

Edit: Chipset is ATI RS400/RC400/RC410

is this what your after.....

Asus P5RD1 chipset driver





SK

Well yes and no..

I ran the program from that site.. And it said all my drivers are up to dat except sound max.. wich is not that important.. but the rest seems to be up to date.. xD

So still no solution.. thanks for your imput though

Ptor said:

Well yes and no..

I ran the program from that site.. And it said all my drivers are up to dat except sound max.. wich is not that important.. but the rest seems to be up to date.. xD

So still no solution.. thanks for your imput though

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you may still need to re seat the card so W7 can detect it....this happens with H/W from time to time...



SK

Well I installed the driver, it asked for reboot, did so..
Then an error popped up at boot up (see added pic).
And no changes in device manager..

And another bit of extra info: Pc wizard 2008 reconised the graphic card. As the gforce 7600 gt

Ptor said:

Well I installed the driver, it asked for reboot, did so..
Then an error popped up at boot up (see added pic).
And no changes in device manager..

And another bit of extra info: Pc wizard 2008 reconised the graphic card. As the gforce 7600 gt

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so it is in fact your W7 install itself stopping the card running, if the card is picked up by other S/W while your in W7


have you re seated the card..??, i know its a chore but it maybe as simple as taking it out & plugging it back in...




SK

Try to to change the settings of Windows Update to 'notify, but don't download or install'. Check for updates, and then choose to view available updates. There you must choose what you see about graphic cards.

Good luck!

I reseated the card.. no change except there is no error at start up..
But still no graphic card.. Windows update changes didnt work.. It just says there is no updat availeble.

This time I added a screenshot of my device manager.. maybe that gives you guys some clues.. caus I'm clueless atm

have you tried uninstalling whatever has a yellow sign and rebooting and see if windows will pick it up automaticly?

Sorry for grave digging but I think I know the solution.

The reason why 7 does not detect your graphics card is because you don't have chip set drivers installed properly.

Get Vista / XP chip set drivers and try to install them. If that doesn't work, you will have to extract chip set drivers from setup.exe of chip set drivers and make Device manger update drivers for all chip set components by having device manger to search through the extracted drivers.

Thats what I believe should fix the problem as the device manager screen shot that Ptor posted has a yellow exclamation mark on PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI bridge. It should not be like that. Also there is no CPU to AGP bridge or some driver of that sort in his screen shot of System Devices in Device manager.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for your time!