NVidia Card Recognition

[Matt B]

I just got my Alienware laptop with a NVidia GeForce Go 7600. I installed
Vista Ultimate RTM. The system doesn't see the card, all I get in the
device manager under Display adapters is 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter'.
Then I try to install any NVidia vista drivers the installation program says
it can't find any devices that are applicable.

What am I missing?

Please help, I am definately not a hardware guy.

 

[Mark Rae]

I just got my Alienware laptop with a NVidia GeForce Go 7600. I installed
Vista Ultimate RTM. The system doesn't see the card, all I get in the
device manager under Display adapters is 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter'.
Then I try to install any NVidia vista drivers the installation program
says it can't find any devices that are applicable.

What am I missing?

You're not missing anything - it is, unfortunately, Vista which is missing
decent nVidia GeForce drivers.

Do a search for nVidia in this newsgroup...

 

[Paulchen]

Same thing on my laptop ASUS A6J with label "Vista capable",
equipped with a GeForce 7300 Go, I asked ASUS, they answered
I had nothing to complain before Vista is made public.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

nVidia has not released a set of drivers with proper support for any
card/adapter in the GO family. Windows Update should pick up a set of
updated drivers soon after install that are better, but still not quite
there yet.

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