Need help installing right graphics driver on Windows 32bit

Question

Hi,

I installed the Windows 8 developer preview on my 4 years old Dell laptop which has NVIDIA QuadroFX M350 graphics card. After the installation I am not able to get the highest resolution this card used to get me. I looked into hardware management and the graphics card is not listed there instead, it is using Microsoft basic display adapter at 1024X768. Is there a way to use higher resolution if the driver is not available for this card? At this resolution i am not able to enjoy the awesomeness of Windows 8.

Looking forward to some solution here. Thanks

Answer 1

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:49:39 +0000, aj4112 wrote:

I installed the Windows 8 developer preview on my 4 years old Dell laptop which has NVIDIA QuadroFX M350 graphics card. After the installation I am not able to get the highest resolution this card used to get me. I looked into hardware management and the graphics card is not listed there instead, it is using Microsoft basic display adapter at 1024X768. Is there a way to use higher resolution if the driver is not available for this card? At this resolution i am not able to enjoy the awesomeness of Windows 8.

Check the nVidia web site for a Windows 7 driver and see if that will
install for you.

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Answer 2

The same thing is happening to me with my old Gateway C-140x with ATI Radeon x2300.  It dosent support the old graphics driver for x64.

 

I get a "the driver selected for this device does not support this version of windows" warning if I try to use the driver.  Does anyone know of a way to edit the existing driver to work with windows 8

Answer 3

As Paul mentioned above in this scenario it is a good idea to go to the vendors website and download the equivalent Windows 7 driver.  If Windows Update is not picking up a new driver, then chances are its not fully compatible with Windows 8 (Windows Developer Preview)

I had a similar issue with an HP 6710b laptop using a G945 (x3100) Intel Chipset.  This driver was not natively installed nor via Windows Update but I was able to install using the Intel driver software.  However, after installation I did end up with a black screen and had to forcibly close down.  Luckily after a reboot though it appeared the driver had successfully installed.  I have had one BSOD since after a resume, so YMMV.

With all this said, of course this should be expected with early Milestone 3 pre beta software.

Cheers

Janson

Answer 4

As Paul mentioned above in this scenario it is a good idea to go to the vendors website and download the equivalent Windows 7 driver.  If Windows Update is not picking up a new driver, then chances are its not fully compatible with Windows 8 (Windows Developer Preview)

I had a similar issue with an HP 6710b laptop using a G945 (x3100) Intel Chipset.  This driver was not natively installed nor via Windows Update but I was able to install using the Intel driver software.  However, after installation I did end up with a black screen and had to forcibly close down.  Luckily after a reboot though it appeared the driver had successfully installed.  I have had one BSOD since after a resume, so YMMV.

With all this said, of course this should be expected with early Milestone 3 pre beta software.

Cheers

Janson

Thanks Paul and Janson for quick responses

I tried installing the closest windows 7 the driver for this card but during installation it fails to detect it as a NVIDIA card and the install doesn't go through. So at this there is nothing much i can do? Does the Microsoft have similar driver like Basic Display adapter driver(which allows only upto 1024x768) with higher resolution?

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Amit Jadhav Northwest Service Manager www.bioseroinc.com

Answer 5

I was able to get mine up to 1280x720 (it should be 1366x768 but close enough) by downloading the drivers from gateway.  Try downloading win 7 x64 drivers from dell.

 

Im going to try a few driver overclock programs to inject the 1366 resolution

Answer 6

I was able to get better resolution by installing the driver from dell.com for Vista 32 bit. I tried to install Xp 32 driver for the graphics card but it didnot work. Now the Windows 8 experience is much better. thanks for all the help guys.

Cheers!!

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Amit Jadhav Northwest Service Manager www.bioseroinc.com

Answer 7

i try installing graphic driver for hp 6720s  from hp.com but the error is "my system does not have the minimum requirement for installing the software ". is their anyway i could use a higher resolution.

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Aguda H

Answer 8

which graphic card do you have? You need at least a DirectX9 card with WDDM1.0 Vista drivers. XP drivers can't be used only longer in Windows 8.

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