Generic PnP monitor!?

[mattiemo]

Sorry for posting another thread, but I am going to pull my hair out.... I upgraded to windows 7 and now this thing says that i have a Generic Pnp Monitor? and there is no 3d card listed in the Device Manager besides the Intell Mobile Chipset thing.... I Tried all of the older drivers and they won't let me install them, I tried to manually pick out the card from the list in the update part of Device Manager and when I went to restart the computer windows wouldn't ever open correctly, so I disabled it and now I am just stuck!

Any assistance is muchly appreciated!!!!

 

[mattiemo]

Oh and I forgot to mention I'm not sure what 3d card I have is there any way to find out? I thought it was a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 but now I am not positive

 

[pebbly]

hi mattiemo here are the latest drivers for your graphic card card Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers post back if you need any more help

 

[mattiemo]

ProductCurrent
Installed DriverLatest Driver
UpdateNVIDIA GeForce Go 7300--The manufacturer of this system requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site.

The GeForce M series and GeForce Go series notebook GPUs use drivers that have been customized by the notebook manufacturers to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior. NVIDIA has worked with some notebook manufacturers to provide notebook-specific driver updates, however, most notebook driver updates must come from the notebook manufacturer. Additionally, the desktop GeForce graphics drivers will not install on Geforce M series and Quadro M series notebook GPU's.ProductCurrent
Installed DriverLatest Driver


so then I go to Dell.com and they have nothing to download except the intel mobile thing which is older than the one that comes with windows 7???

So now what?

 

[pebbly]

right mattiemo, bear with me a little bit on this one your lappy i think is the I6400 (e1505) so you may not have the nvidia card i logging of now to search back soon

 

[pebbly]

mattiemo, here is the link to dells drivers there a 6 different drivers have a look in your device manager and see wether you have the intel,ati or nvidia chipset then we will take it from there Drivers & Downloads=

 

[mattiemo]

in the device manager i have the intel mobile chipset, but I had 2 base device things with question marks and tried the manual install, it didn't work......

 

[pebbly]

in the device manager i have the intel mobile chipset, but I had 2 base device things with question marks and tried the manual install, it didn't work......

is that for the display adaptor? we need to know your graphic card first, we will get to the base devices later

 

[mattiemo]

yep
Mobile Intel Express Chipset 945

 

[pebbly]

ok install the driver from dells site it will be the vista version so you will have to install it in compatability mode
right click on the setup,exe file ,properties>compatibility>run as vista tick run as admin> apply>ok and exit then right click the setup,exe file and run as admin

 

[mattiemo]

"Setup cannot find drivers that are compatible with your hardware. Set up will now Exit"

bah!

 

[pebbly]

mattiemo, can you post a piccy of your device manager with the display adator link expanded we need to find out your graphic card as it does not seem to be nvidia or intel and all thats left is ati!

 

[pebbly]

mattiemo, are you running 32bit or 64bit?

 

[mattiemo]

I am running 32 bit, however when I do the auto-detect driver thing on Nvidia's website it lists the Nvidia GeForce Go 7300.....

 

[logicearth]

Is this not the driver you were looking for?
Drivers and Downloads

 

[mattiemo]

yes, but it says that it can't locate any drivers compatible with my hardware

 

[pebbly]

Is this not the driver you were looking for?
Drivers and Downloads

thanks for that logicearth, already pointed the op to those but they did not work!

 

[pebbly]

yes, but it says that it can't locate any drivers compatible with my hardware

mattiemo, are you trying to load the drivers in compat mode ,my laptop I9400/E1705 is like yours , not officially supported by Dell for Win7 my graphic card is 7900gs i had to load the drivers under compat mode to get it to function correctly, so give it a try

 

[mattiemo]

how might I do that?

 

[jfar]

Hi try this.

Compatibility Modehttp://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html?ltr=C