Vista Video Drivers

gideonca

New Member
Ok so I have a HP Pavilion 6000t with a Nvidia 7400 video card and it's definitely having some issues. Right now i have Vista Ultimate installed but can't get any video card drivers installed correctly on it. I downloaded the one from the hp.com website and also did the one where it automatically detects it from the windows update drivers tab. Right now I'm using the Standard VGA graphics adapter driver.

The other related issue is that I can't get anything displayed on my laptop screen, but I can connect an external monitor using the vga out. I tried the Function F4 key and it basically blacks out the external monitor and I then can't get it back to showing any
thing on screen. Nothing is displayed in the settings display thing so i can't get test to see if it even reads the laptop monitor as a display.

The question is, is there a way to install a better graphics driver than this standard VGA graphics adapter? Or maybe find a driver that will install correctly the Nvidia 7400 card.
 

My Computer

Get the driver from nvidia. Never use the manufactuer as a d/l for these type of drivers.
Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

They now have the mobile graphic cards on it.

To properly install gpu drivers, d/l the driver, and drive sweeper
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper download from Guru3D.com
Thgen boot into safe mode, run driver sweeper and remove the nvidia display drivers.
Then run the driver from nvidia, and boot back into normal mode.

This should work fine.

The f4 key probably doesn't work due to the driver being borked.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Back
Top