Windows not recognizing NVidia GeForce 8400M GT

[tonymatini]

Sorry ive got VGN-FZ38M upgraded from vista home premium to windows 7 prof 32 bit, my graphics work at the mo but it states the screensavers wont work cause the standard driver isnt direct 3d compatible or something!
Am also a bit concerned that a bigger problem is waiting in the wings for me after reading other forums!!! please help
thanks
TM

 

[thanhers]

great work you do torrent..im having the problem too and beating my head trying to figure it out..i cant do dual monitors because the "video controller" has an exclamation mark in "other devices" of device manager...i assume this needs a driver update for my video card???

i have a sony vaio VGN-S580 and i THINK the video card is Intel® 915GM Integrated Gfx or NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 with TurboCache....accoording to the website..thanks for everything you do for us!

 

[bmebmebme]

Dear Everyone,

Please help me. My Acer Aspire 5720 with Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS not working!

Just Standard VGA Graphics Adapter. If I install a driver, with force, to recognise the Geforce card, when I start the windows 7, it has a problem in every time. Once just black, or "colorful". But never good. After this, I have to go in Safe Mode, to delete the driver, to make it again Standard VGA. And then I can use, but it's for limited, because, many refreshing problem involved.

I tried to install the new 260.99 update, and also the the oldest ones from acer support page, but the effect is the same.

My HardwareID:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_011E1025&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_011E1025
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_0300

I hope you can help! Have a nice day!

bmebmebme

 

[pebbly]

Hi bmebmebme, welcome to the forums, did you download the notebook version from Nvidia NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL , there is a chance the 8400m has failed ,they were prone to heat issues

 

[bmebmebme]

Hi bmebmebme, welcome to the forums, did you download the notebook version from Nvidia NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL , there is a chance the 8400m has failed ,they were prone to heat issues

Thank You the fast reply!

This means, my video card is useless? :S
I tried the NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL but this is still a problem.
There is no other way, to make this right?

Thanks again.

 

[pebbly]

Hi bmebmebme, welcome to the forums, did you download the notebook version from Nvidia NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL , there is a chance the 8400m has failed ,they were prone to heat issues

Thank You the fast reply!

This means, my video card is useless? :S
I tried the NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL but this is still a problem.
There is no other way, to make this right?

Thanks again.

you could try installing the drivers in safe mode see what happens then , or if you are not feint hearted you could try the "baking method" google it
but this you do at your own risk

 

[dadijm]

sir iam having the same problem maybe you could help me i have vaio VG-FZ716 unit iam using windows 7 my computer is well until one time it canot read my video card iam using NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT GPU heres my hardware id pls help me thanks in advance

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300

 

[raytitz29]

VGA GRAP

hi i have a same problem to, im running windows 7 ultimate 64bit

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_02091028&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_02091028
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_0300


i need help!pls

 

[SomewhereBeyond]

Dear Torrentg,

I'm having the same problem. I have a Nvidia 8400M GT on my Laptop. I sent it off for repair and they told me they had replaced a faulty gpu. Hadnt turned it on in a year and when I did the graphics were messing up. I upgraded to Windows 7 and was wonderful except the graphics are rated 1.0 and the graphics card seems to be non-aparant. Could you please do the same for me or is my issue different? I would like to add that when I go to the 'View detailed system info', it says there is no graphics memory detected. In Vista the card may not have had the right drivers, but this info. still showed the memory available on the hardware I believe?

Here is the pasted info from Hardware id that you previously requested.

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300

Kind regards

 

[zepp85]

Same thing

Hello,
Unfortunately I'm having the same issue. Went from Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate, and it wont acknowledge my geforce card. This seems like the best thread for hope.

8400m GS

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_02B51028&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_02B51028
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_0300

Thank you to those kind folks who have been helping everyone with this problem.
I would appreciate some help aswell

 

[JAAN]

Hi Torrentg. I've tried everything, but in vain......Can you please do a custom Inf for me. I've Sony VAIO FZ35GN. It came with Vista OS but later on I upgraded to Windows 7. But now having the same problem as above two users.
Here are info on my card:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300

Please please please help........I'll be obliged

 

[demosthenesish]

torrentg
i'm having the same problem could you help me out?
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DF4&SUBSYS_15F21043&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DF4&SUBSYS_15F21043
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DF4&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DF4&CC_0300

 

[Yatta]

ok guy heres the step by step instructions to get these video cards working. This is how i did it after days of reading different forums and about inf files and how to write your own stuff in there. Ok forget the force ware that everyone is telling to use. Step 1. Go to Nvidia and download the latest driver save it to your desktop. Step 2. Go to device manager how ever you want to get there i go to start, control panel, then to hardware and sound, then device manager top selection all the way to the left. Step 3. Go to display adapter double click open the display adapter youll probably see vga adapter but what ever it says thats the one you need double click it theres tabs across the top click the one that says details, scroll down till you see hardware ID click on that. Where it says value (in the case of this computer that i was working on Sony Vaio VGN-AR630e) it is PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1 thats the number your going to need so copy and paste it in to a blank note pad or remember how to get back there. Step 4. Ok by now those drivers should be done downloading. Double click its going to come up with a screen that shows you where the files are going to be saved to something like C:\NVIDIA alright so go ahead and continue with the setup its going to extract the files to that location when the installer starts to go through the system check hit cancel when it cancels go to C:\NVIDIA\DISPLAY DRIVERS\WHAT EVER VERSION YOU GOT I GOT 285.62\INTERNATIONAL\WINVISTA_WIN7_64\INTERNATIONAL\DISPLAY DRIVER. So on mine the adress bar looks like this when im there C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\285.62\WinVista_Win7_64\International\Display.Driver. Now that your there you have to copy that PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1 you are going to have to paste it in a million places not literally but you have your work cut out for you. Take your time here you want to do this perfect. First open the List devices text now hit ctrl+f in my case the 0426 is specific to the Geforce 8400m gt 10de is what we all have nvidia geforce mobile gpu so you want to type into that search for word 0426 or coresponding number

DEV_0DF4&SUBSYS_10ED17C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M "
DEV_1050&SUBSYS_10E517C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M"
DEV_1050&SUBSYS_10EC17C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M "
DEV_1248&SUBSYS_10E717C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M"
DEV_1248&SUBSYS_10E817C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M "
DEV_0844&SUBSYS_408F17C0 "NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G"

nvmt.inf:
DEV_0405&SUBSYS_82271071 "NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS"
DEV_0405&SUBSYS_82301071 "NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS "
DEV_0407&SUBSYS_02841A92 "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT"
DEV_0425&SUBSYS_82271071 "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS"
DEV_0425&SUBSYS_82531071 "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS "
DEV_0426&SUBSYS_55841991 "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT"
thats what i find thats mine so highlight that hole line
DEV_0426&SUBSYS_55841991 to right there paste in
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1 and then we are going to use a little common sense and make this look like the other as far as the prefix dont delete anything from the end that is card specific to your oem BS.
DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1. 0426 is graphics card specific but replace that with &subsys etc. so through all the txt files you have to do ctrl+f 0426 or coresponding and highlight it and replace it with your oem specific hardware name cause thats what that is PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1. Hardware device ID. So you search every .txt with ctrl+f 0426 and you replace ill do a couple of examples for you but not all inclusive like the last example.
%NVIDIA_DEV_0426.1% = nv4_NV3x_Mobile, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426
%NVIDIA_DEV_0426.1% = nv4_NV3x_Mobile, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1.
the one in yellow doesnt matter but it will find it anyway just replace the top line with the bottom line so highlight PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426 right click and paste you cant mess it upto easy just make sure you do it right. PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1 keep searching the document till its done.
%NVIDIA_DEV_0426.1% = nv4_NV3x_Mobile, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426
%NVIDIA_DEV_0426.1% = nv4_NV3x_Mobile, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1
organize the file by type till all the setup txt files are in a line then go through them and do this over and over install and you should be good repost if this didnt help. You can walk me through what you did and ill tell you if you did something wrong

 

[marty1]

Hi Yatta

How many .txt files have to be edited? I could locate only 3, all in one folder and out of those I could find only one file ListDevices.txt with only one 0426 entry........

Can you send me this driver that you have modified or the .txt files plz, because I have identical hardware as you......


PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9016104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300

Reg

 

[joey007]

Torrent g Nvidia

Hi this is for Torrentg. Can you please do a custom Inf for me.still unable to install the lastest nvdia driver to my sony vaio running windows 7 ultimate with 8400M GT.lastest drivers from nvidia cannot detect card and sony only have od drivers Here are info on my card:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300.

thanks m8 this seems to be the only promising thing i havent tried.

 

[marty1]

anybody need driver for nvidia Gforce 8400M GT for Windows 7 x64 contact me.....

 

[huyle66]

Hello Torrentg/Yatta:

can you help me? I am running Windows 7 Professional 64bit on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ640, and the NVidia driver software I downloaded will not recognize my NVidia GForce 8400m GS, even though their Java online auto detector recognized it fine. My hardware Id is:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_9008104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_9008104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_0300

Yatta: I tried to follow your instruction, but there were so many "0427" and I was not sure what has to be replaced--sorry. Thanks for all your help.

 

[GianniDPC]

Hello Torrentg/Yatta:

can you help me? I am running Windows 7 Professional 64bit on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ640, and the NVidia driver software I downloaded will not recognize my NVidia GForce 8400m GS, even though their Java online auto detector recognized it fine. My hardware Id is:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_9008104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_9008104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&CC_0300

Yatta: I tried to follow your instruction, but there were so many "0427" and I was not sure what has to be replaced--sorry. Thanks for all your help.

Did you download the lasted drivers from the NVIDIA site ???

otherwise torrentg has made a tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/36593-nvidia-driver-convert-desktop-mobile-laptop.html

 

[huyle66]

Hello Gianni: thanks for the link. I must confess I read and re-read the instructions numerous times before it start to click -- maybe it is my lack of tech-savyness (is that a word??) but I finally downloaded the correct installation file from NVidia and made the change to the nv_disp.inf file and WOW it worked I even have the NVidia control panel also. I don't know if torrentg read this thread or not, but a big thanks to you. Thank you to Gianni for the link. My Sony Vaio has GeForce 8400M GS if anyone wants the edited inf file..just pm me. The instructions seems clear enough once I figure it out and completed the task, but I admit I had a tough time making the connection. Tkx again for a great forum.

 

[ArmandoCanto]

Hi this is for Torrentg. Can you please do a custom Inf for me. I did everything incl downloading MobilityModder but was still enable to install the lastest nvdia driver to my sony vaio VGN-FZ250FE running windows 7 with 8400M GT. Here are info on my card:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D&REV_A1
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_9005104D
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&CC_0300

Please and thank you