Display Problems - HP Pavilion

[Hwangman]

Hi all,

I have a HP Pavilion laptop (dv6810us). It's about 1.5 years old, so it came w/Vista. I currently have it dual booted w/7 Premium, and everything works fine except for the display. In the Vista boot, i get 1280x800, very clear. When i boot into 7, it says it displaying the same resolution, but it looks horribly fuzzy, and the icons are larger.

I've tried all display/control panel options thus far, and i've ensured that i have all settings to their highest level. I've searched HP's website for compatible 7 display drivers, but nothing has been released. Is it that my laptop simply cannot handle 7?

 

[thefabe]

First go to Nvidia and download and unpack the latest driver for your card Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers Then go to this site NVIDIA MobilityModder - DriverHeaven.net And follow the directions on how to modify the .inf file in your driver package you just downloaded. It seems that a lot of mobile drivers need to have the .inf file modified in order to work properly.Take your time and follow the directions, it has solved many a mobile card problrems in tthe past. Good luck. Please post back. Thanks. Fabe

 

[Hwangman]

Will do, thanks!

 

[Hwangman]

Well, it's been a little while, and i finally had time to try this method out. No luck. Even after running the utility and modifying the driver, it still gives me the same error of incompatibility. Even though i downloaded the Windows 7 version of the driver, the error comes up and says that i'm not using a Vista compatible driver. ??

 

[Hwangman]

Woo! Did some troubleshooting and everything is now working fine (knocks on wood)! Wonderful, high-quality display. Thanks to all on here for pointing me in the right direction.

 

[marbanasin]

did you just use the above method? I have the same problem, the highest display setting is still fuzzy. I'll try that method after class then.

 

[marbanasin]

oh, and how can I find my graphics card, I've done the scan method but that just downloads something immediately without giving me the chance to unzip it and do the other steps.

 

[marbanasin]

okay it looks like just getting the driver for my card off hp's website solved it. display is clear again.