Windows 7 graphics driver problem

I recently installed windows 7 on my ms-1651-ID2 and now everything is working fine except I can't seem to be able to install my graphics drivers.
Device manager doesn't seem to show GT 160m as it should and whenever I try to install a driver downloaded from nvidia the only thing it lets me install is the audio HD driver. I've tried googling to see if other people have had this problem and it seems it's not very rare but I haven't found an answer yet.

 

You might want to try re-installing the chipset driver and try again with the graphic driver.

 

Or you could try a reformat.

 

its a msi issue i had problems also.

looks for the win7 driver uppdate ill see if i can find the link from a while back

 

so zfactor, do u know how to fix the problem? cuz i recently installed window 7 on my sager np 2090. and when i tried to install my graphic card, it doesnt work.

 

Perform a manual INF install, find the graphic hardware in device manager, properties, update driver, select driver from disk, have disk, extract nvidia drivers (if possible) dont install them, navigate from have disk to you nvidia extract folder, find nvidia infs to try , im not sure if nvidia would have them but i'd assume so, this is how we used to install ATI drivers.

 

I think nvidia drivers extract to C:\nvidia cat.

So yeah good idea just cancel the install after it unpacks, install manually.

 

Hmmm i don't know if this could help,
But in the past when i had problems like this,
I found that you have to get the driver from your manufacturer itself, and sometimes they can be a tad slow in release the latest ones.

With regards to Nvidia you can visit "laptop2video" 's website and download one of their fix files.

In the driver package installer it has a list of compatible gpu's where 9/10 times notebook gpus don't include it, the community there adds these profiles enabling the package to install the driver without problem...

They have a bit more intel on the site itself so if your unsure just have a read there.

 

I had a similar problem with my ex630 laptop. I also couldn't get the Nvidia control panel to appear, even though graphics performance was fine.

What I did is uninstall the driver, run Driver Sweeper 2.1, then reboot. When you reboot, Windows tries to quickly install some kind of driver. Hit cancel ASAP, then run driver sweeper again since it's pretty lightning-fast about getting .dlls in there.

After everything was all flushed out I installed the 195.81 beta drivers from Nvidia's website (prolly could have used 195.62).

Now everything works great including the control panel. Maybe this will help you too?

 

Problems with graphics drivers are mainly down to the overhauled dispay model in win7, so you are right. But I still can't wait to delete my Vista petition and start anew with 7.