Video problems after upgrade?

[ayame]

Hi everybody.

I have a dell laptop inspiron 1520. (blue ray dvd player)
When i had windows vista, i could watch all my videos in ful screen as smooth as i would watch it on TV...but now that i've upgraded to win7, when i want to watch my vids full screen, they get all kinda pixely...the quality sucks.

I wish i could tell you what video card i have but i dont know how to find that.
Any help?

 

[nate42nd]

Yes, right click "my computer" and click "manage" then click "device manager" on the left.

Then expand "display adapters" and see what card you have. You may need drivers.

 

[whs]

Type system into start/search and hit Enter. Then go to Hardware Resources > IRQ. That will show your Video card.
Your problem could be a missing codec. What is the filetype of your videos ??

 

[ayame]

oh ok, thank you.
Well it says i have 'Standard VGA graphics adapter'

But this isnt right because when i had vista i know i had Nvidia Geforce followed by some big number...

 

[ayame]

Type system into start/search and hit Enter. Then go to Hardware Resources > IRQ. That will show your Video card.
Your problem could be a missing codec. What is the filetype of your videos ??

.avi and mp4s...

 

[nate42nd]

oh ok, thank you.
Well it says i have 'Standard VGA graphics adapter'

But this isnt right because when i had vista i know i had Nvidia Geforce followed by some big number...

It should tell you in "device manager" you can just type it in the search.

If you have the model # of your laptop, we could find it

OR when you find out you can go here

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/602-latest-nvidia-forceware-video-drivers-windows-7-a.html

Download and install the latest drivers and see if that works

 

[ayame]

It says i have the VGA graphics adapter (Nvidia chip)....i went to that link and did a scan of my system and found an update/driver. So lets see how that goes...

As for the model number, its a inpiron 1520. Or do you mean some other number?

 

[nate42nd]

It looks like you have an 8400M GS or GT so let us know how that driver works.

 

[ayame]

ahh the driver worked! thank you so much for your help!! appreciate it!

Now the graphics card changed back to Geforce 8600M GT (maybe it was 8400M before the update?)

still, thanks!

 

[nate42nd]

Great! Have a great day! Looks like you weer running a "generic" driver and the real one probably whipped the video device into shape.

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