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Itasuke

Can't update my nVIDIA 330M drivers, Acer Aspire 5745G

Hey guys,

for quite some time now I have not been able to update my drivers. I'll post pics regarding my specs and my problem for clarity. They are in Swedish, and if I have to translate anything just ask. If there's any pertinent information I left out, again, just ask.

This is my system: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2XO1o.png[/IMG]

These are my graphics drivers: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PbW44.png[/IMG]

This is the issue: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YJeRQ.png[/IMG]

I tried downloading the drivers from the Acer website, but they seem to be... different. The version number from nVIDIA themselves is 280.26, while it's VGA_NVIDIA_8.16.11.8997_W7x64_A when I download from Acer. It doesn't even seem to be the same thing.

I'm tired of having problems because of this, a lot of games don't work and I should probably get better performance than I do... Any ideas?

Posted Oct 15, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

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pitman•

Completely uninstall your drivers and run Driver Sweeper and then re-install them.

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ItasukeOP•

I uninstalled them, and downloaded Driver Sweeper. What exactly should I do with it? Analyze nVIDIA - Display and then remove all the files?

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pitman•

Pretty much.

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ItasukeOP•

I did that, STILL couldn't install the drivers. I'm out of ideas.

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Matt08642•

Can you translate that error to english?

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ItasukeOP•

Denna grafikdrivrutin kunde inte hitta kompatibel grafikmaskinvara -> This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware

EDIT: And obviously, according to dxdiag, I have indeed got graphics hardware :/

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Hikikomori523•

try getting it from Nivida.com itself and when installing choose >"Advanced" > Clean Install.

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ItasukeOP•

I have downloaded it from there, but I don't even get that far. When I execute the file it start some kind of system check, and tells me I don't even have any graphics hardware...

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Hikikomori523•

hmm. It's not seeing that you have it installed, you might have had a previous bad driver. Can you go into Device Manager? Do you see Nividia 330m in there under Display adapters and can you right click and choose properties?

From there you should choose the Driver tab, and try rolling back to the previous driver.

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ItasukeOP•

I did this now. It went from 8.16.11.8997 to 8.16.11.8996... not a huge change. Anyways, it still can't find the graphics hardware when I try to install the drivers. I'm going to try to uninstall the drivers, use Driver Sweeper and then re-install, per another guys advice. Fingers crossed.

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lucidify•

Maybe NVIDIA Optimus problem? Try disable it.

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