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    driver problems with LJ-65-DT-020-NL (dutch)

    Discussion in 'Packard Bell' started by Mirel, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. Mirel

    Mirel Newbie

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    I just bought this laptop. When I first powered it up, it started installing windows from the recovery partition. Stupid as I was, I pressed fn+F4 during the install, which did something. Turned it off or something. :(

    When I restarted, the windows install gave errors, and just kept restarting itself.
    So I grabbed a Vista Ultimate 64 disk my brother had, and just installed that one. It was a clean install, so I had to install the drivers myself. I did that through Driver Check.

    Anyway, the Nvidia drivers aren't installed. Device Manager has a yellow sign on the Standard Display Adapter.
    I noticed when I view a standard 350 MB downloaded show, it doesn't playback smoothly.
    Vistaskin and fonts and everything do look good though. 1600x900 and all that.

    I tried several drivers, official and custom. When installing those, it only lists HDaudio drivers in the installscreen, which I find odd, since the install is supposed to be for video, right? The install then finishes, and that's it. No Nvidia Control Panel to be found. I can however find the setup for the Nvidia Control Panel in the driver folders, but it won't install.

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    I don't know what to do. Right now I'm downloading Windows Vista Home Premium 32, the same one I was supposed to install. Gonna try and see if that one will work properly.

    Is there a way to get to the original install? How do I view what's inside the hidden partition? I don't know any Vista 64 compatible tools.
    Also, is it plausible if I delete this C:/, this windows installation, I'll get prompted to install windows from the partition, just like when I first powered up this laptop? Granted if that partition is still there ofcourse.
     
    Mirel, Sep 5, 2009
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  2. Lanaya

    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    I'd recommend booting an Ubuntu Live CD, open Gnome Partition Manager from the System menu, right click the partition that holds your recovery system, and select Flags and tick the Boot option. reboot, and you should have the option to boot into recovery (if there are no other partitions to boot from, i.e your previous installation of windows.)
     
    Lanaya, Sep 5, 2009
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