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Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:41 am
by cheatax21
hello all, i have just procceeded to a format of my laptop and now my graphic's card's driver is missing,, i downloaded some drivers but they are not compatible with the card.. I run windows Vista-32b SP1.

My laptop is Turbo-X Maestro MN81-432

Card details : Nvidia 8600M GS 512MB
in the www.nvidia.co.uk i cannot find any driver for the card ;///

if someone can help me please i would really appreciate it..


P.S I already tried google it w/o results- i keep trying- ;/

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:51 am
by janiii

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:03 am
by cheatax21
it still says its not compatible with the hardware ;((((uf;/ what to do ?

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:08 am
by _DS_
Get PCI device id and vendor id and google by then, not by name.

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:23 am
by cheatax21
oh,, well i understand nothing of that pci :SS vendor id = Nvidia corporation , what you mean with pci ?

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:30 am
by _DS_
Get some PCI device list utility or check in device manager, device properties.
My radeon has vendor id = 1002, device id = 9501

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:38 am
by cheatax21
man i dont know how can i get these ids ;/ what difference there will be even if i knew them? why the driver since it supports my graphic card says its not compatible with my hardware ?;//

how can i get these ids and what to do with them?thx for help a/w i cannot do this alone;/

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:41 am
by cheatax21
um, i think the device id = 0x0403
and the vendors id = 0x10DE


but i dont know i found these from http://developer.nvidia.com/object/devi ... tml#Sample

are they correct? and what to do with them :S


i got to this site and thats what it found when added the device id in its search :S
http://www.pcidatabase.com/search.php?d ... rch=Search

hlp S:SSS

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:50 am
by _DS_
You need to find EXACT value for YOUR card, for example, in device manager.

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9501&SUBSYS_22441787&REV_00\4&399D3C6A&0&0008

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:54 am
by Aikimaniac
I know it would sound maybe lame or noob but..have you tried to uninstall fully your graphic card driver (the wrong one) and to restart vista ?

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:57 am
by cheatax21
well man,, i dont know how to do this :S can you give me specific directions how to do this please?


or if you can connect with me via teamviewer to do this :S

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:00 am
by Aikimaniac
cheatax21 wrote:well man,, i dont know how to do this :S can you give me specific directions how to do this please?
go to hardware manager and uninstall it there... btw...are you server admin ? How you got directed to this forum ? :o

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:05 am
by cheatax21
i used to be server admin but not anymore.

i dont have any graphic card driver to delete mate i cannot even install one :S.... i went to the company from which i bought my laptop and they gave me a cd wth the "proper" drivers to install... but there was no driver for the graphic card ;/

do you know how i can find that pci values? not go there ;p click where?

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:12 am
by _DS_
I does not have vista in hands now :(
Try pci explorer from here: http://pci-viewer.vista-files.org/ (just found by google)

Re: Need driver for my graphic card please help

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:16 am
by Aikimaniac
cheatax21 wrote:i used to be server admin but not anymore.

i dont have any graphic card driver to delete mate i cannot even install one :S.... i went to the company from which i bought my laptop and they gave me a cd wth the "proper" drivers to install... but there was no driver for the graphic card ;/

do you know how i can find that pci values? not go there ;p click where?
restart vista and run in VGA mode or some safemode... then check your drivers in hardware manager and maybe uninstall graphic adapter and restart again...or ....get Win 7 :D heared its driver base is realy huge :D