I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop VGN FZ21S recently to windows 7. Everything went smooth but when I checked the device manager I noted that for the graphic card driver, I had only something called "Standard generic display driver" (Or something similar to that). This was ok for your basic stuff. But wouldn't be no where near nvidia for hardware acceleration or active x
So I tried to download nvidia drivers from nvidia site and sony vaio site. Downloaded. But windows 7 didn,t allow me to install it !
It simply couldn't recognize the hardware. As always I tried several forums and other internet places for help. There were several suggestions. None did help, no matter how many times I did it. So frustating.
Some how I did it on my own. Here is how ......
When you upgrade to win 7 as a clean sweep, windows will make a folder knwon as "Windows.old" under Local C. This contains all your programes. files and drivers you used in vista. This is a snap shot view of my folder
When you open drivers folder under C:windows.old/windows/drivers, you will see all of your old drivers
Now go to device manager and use "Upgrade driver" Under display divices
It will now install the vista driver which will solve the problem. You will be able to upgrade all of the drivers for other divices like audio, mouse, ethernet etc.. replacng the windows 7 inbuilt equavalants.I am not a it geek. But I know there are lots of guys frustated with the same problem. This is me sharing my success hoping atleast someone out there would see this and benifit from this.
Thanks
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Good luck with your windows 7
The question is, is it the latest drivers from nvidia? The vista driver was fine, but I was looking for windows 7 drivers just like on the nvidia website but for my sony. You have to search around the internet for equivalent spec'd computers (in this case the graphics card like mine vgn-z520n nvidia 9300m gs) and download the drivers from there. For some reason, certain countries get better support. I don't really care about the language, cause I'm only interested in the updated drivers. I hardly ever mess w/ the settings too much anyways. I found mine at
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Hi, I've been having exactly the problem you've described. I have found the window.old file but I can't find a drivers folder in that. There is a 'Driver Cache' folder but I can't find anything thing like device manager. Is the device manager a file or application or what?
ReplyDeleteAlso there was a folder 'system32' (my OS is windows 32-bit, so don't know if that has anything to do with it), and in that there was a folder called 'drivers' but again there was not a device manager option.
Please help, thanks.
I don't have that file windows.old on my windows 7 and i can't install Nvidia 263.09 because, i reformated from XP and it's VERY frustrating because, i want to change my screen resolution to 1280x1024 because, EVERYTHING ON MY SCREEN WIDEN!
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