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Old October 21st 11, 01:16 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
DMP[_5_]
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Default Problems updating display driver GEForce 8600GT

Am attempting to update the display driver for a family members PC.

The system is runs Win7 64 bit, and it looks like a Windows generic
video driver is installed. I could not find anything in control panel to
remove. I uninstalled the card from Device Manager and attempted to
install the newest WHQL driver downloaded from Nvidia's site.

I got the message during the install that Windows could not find
compatible graphics hardware and the generic driver was reinstalled on
reboot.

Can someone give me a hand insolving this issue? Thanks.

D.
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Old October 24th 11, 02:18 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
King Beowulf[_2_]
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Default Problems updating display driver GEForce 8600GT

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:16:43 -0400, DMP wrote:

Am attempting to update the display driver for a family members PC.

The system is runs Win7 64 bit, and it looks like a Windows generic
video driver is installed. I could not find anything in control panel to
remove. I uninstalled the card from Device Manager and attempted to
install the newest WHQL driver downloaded from Nvidia's site.

I got the message during the install that Windows could not find
compatible graphics hardware and the generic driver was reinstalled on
reboot.

Can someone give me a hand insolving this issue? Thanks.

D.


Did you check the Nvidia supported device list? The newer Nvidia drivers
dropped support for some of the older cards. Did you download the
correct driver for your card?

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Old October 24th 11, 10:46 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
DMP[_5_]
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Default Problems updating display driver GEForce 8600GT

On 10/23/2011 9:18 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:16:43 -0400, DMP wrote:

Am attempting to update the display driver for a family members PC.

The system is runs Win7 64 bit, and it looks like a Windows generic
video driver is installed. I could not find anything in control panel to
remove. I uninstalled the card from Device Manager and attempted to
install the newest WHQL driver downloaded from Nvidia's site.

I got the message during the install that Windows could not find
compatible graphics hardware and the generic driver was reinstalled on
reboot.

Can someone give me a hand insolving this issue? Thanks.

D.


Did you check the Nvidia supported device list? The newer Nvidia drivers
dropped support for some of the older cards. Did you download the
correct driver for your card?



You know, I didn't check the supported device list. I just picked the
latest driver. But, I did find as you said that support was dropped.

Anyway, I found a driver that supported the card and it installed with
no issues.

Thanks for helping.

D.
 




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