Windows 7 not detecting my GPU.

Forgive me for reviving this thread, but I really need some assistance

This isn't going to solve your problem but if you download GPU-z and run it will provide more information on your card something is definetly heenky. I know this must be very frustrating, but sometimes and I mean only sometines if you unseat the card then reseat it, this wiil cause windows to search for the driver upon reboot. GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility Aslso check out this thread it talks about down grading the graphic driver in the last post their is a reference to another thread having to do with the 9500gt. good Luck. Fabe

have you tried letting nvidia detected the drivers for you via the website.

open IE8

Code:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Select
Graphics Drivers under Option 2:

worth a try.

are all the motherboard devices installed ?

when you go to device manager is there anything with a question mark or exclamation mark ?

what happens if you right click unninstall your device in device manager then reeboot or "scan for changes" ?

can you please fill out your system spec here on this forum

thefabe said:

This isn't going to solve your problem but if you download GPU-z and run it will provide more information on your card something is definetly heenky. I know this must be very frustrating, but sometimes and I mean only sometines if you unseat the card then reseat it, this wiil cause windows to search for the driver upon reboot. GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility Aslso check out this thread it talks about down grading the graphic driver in the last post their is a reference to another thread having to do with the 9500gt. good Luck. Fabe

Forgot to post that! :P
Not sure what thread you're talking about? Do you mean "W7 not detecting my 9800gtx+ "?

Also

Windows XP GPU Report


Windows 7 GPU Report

JoHn87 said:

have you tried letting nvidia detected the drivers for you via the website.

open IE8

Code:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Select
Graphics Drivers under Option 2:

worth a try.

Did that when I first put Windows 7 on, it gave me notebook drivers, never the less I downloaded and installed and to no avail I received the same error.

ickymay said:

are all the motherboard devices installed ?

when you go to device manager is there anything with a question mark or exclamation mark ?

what happens if you right click unninstall your device in device manager then reeboot or "scan for changes" ?

can you please fill out your system spec here on this forum

Yep everthing works perfectly except for sound (did I mention that the GPU works with x32 visit? ~ tried it ages ago and it worked), anyway I'll give the uninstalling and rebooting a try.


I got a giggle from..

Hi there
whilst in general I would recommend a Clean install this might be one of the instances where an "Upgrade" install would pay dividends.

What I would do here is a "Half way house".

1) Install a CLEAN version of 64 bit VISTA. You don't have to activate it if you've got a full install W7 disk.

2) add all the necessary drivers etc from the nvidia site. Don't add any other apps other than the mobo drivers etc. Get ALL these working -- no exclamation marks against any devices in the device manager list.

3) now run a Windows 7 UPGRADE. W7 will keep the existing drivers if it can't find a W7 version and it will "adjust" the compatability so you won't get the installer saying it doesn't recognize the OS.

Doing an upgrade this way gives you the best of both worlds - it's essentially a CLEAN install but preserves hard to find or non existant drivers.

It's just possible that the W7 compatability check before it does the upgrade might sling out the video driver -- unlikely as the code for video won't have changed much. If it does I'm afraid you are screwed until nvidia fix their stuff for W7.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
whilst in general I would recommend a Clean install this might be one of the instances where an "Upgrade" install would pay dividends.

What I would do here is a "Half way house".

1) Install a CLEAN version of 64 bit VISTA. You don't have to activate it if you've got a full install W7 disk.

2) add all the necessary drivers etc from the nvidia site. Don't add any other apps other than the mobo drivers etc. Get ALL these working -- no exclamation marks against any devices in the device manager list.

3) now run a Windows 7 UPGRADE. W7 will keep the existing drivers if it can't find a W7 version and it will "adjust" the compatability so you won't get the installer saying it doesn't recognize the OS.

Doing an upgrade this way gives you the best of both worlds - it's essentially a CLEAN install but preserves hard to find or non existant drivers.

It's just possible that the W7 compatability check before it does the upgrade might sling out the video driver -- unlikely as the code for video won't have changed much. If it does I'm afraid you are screwed until nvidia fix their stuff for W7.

Cheers
jimbo

I don't have Windows Vista, dual booting with XP.