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Windows 7 - Nvidia Geforce Go 7400

Anonymous
2010-02-04T01:24:33+00:00

Hello.

I recently upgraded my Sony Vaio LA1 desktop PC to Windows 7 32bit from Windows XP 32bit. Everything seemed to go to plan, except that my Nvidia GeForce GO 7400 graphics card is not being recognised. Windows is instead displaying a 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter' that will not let my computer display in its native 16:9 resolution, instead forcing it to display a stretched 4:3

I fully expected my computer not to run Aero following the upgrade, but for the drivers for my graphics card not to work at all is extremely annoying.

I have tried downloading the drivers direct from Nvidia, but when I try to install them, the installer simply says that it cannot find the Nvidia card and cancels.

Sony is no use at all.

Please help. I am a designer, so to not be able to see things in the correct resolution is going to severely affect my work!

Ben

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Anonymous
2010-02-04T08:41:33+00:00

If Sony has customised the graphics hardware only Sony can provide the drivers needed.

You can try http://laptopvideo2go.com/ and see if the drivers there with the modified inf file will work.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-13T23:47:36+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-06-01T13:18:15+00:00

    Try using latest driver on nvidia's website download 179.48 beta drivers than follow the instruction listed in this site

    http://www.hardwareheaven.com/nvmodtool.php

    worked for me would probably work for you too.

    cheers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-26T00:00:25+00:00

    Hi BennnyHudson

    I have just encountered the same problem whilst upgrading a friends laptop to Win7 Home Premium 32bit.  The machine is a Vaio VGN FE31H with the same graphics adaptor as yours.

    To resolve I just downloaded the latest vista driver from the sony websitethis laptop model and it works fine no problems at all.    It displays graphics at full res with no blue screens.

    Hope I am not too late with this answer for you and that this helps you.

    Woody999000

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-13T09:14:11+00:00

    I have exactly the same situation. I got round the resolution issue by re-installing original drivers as distributed with the machine (available either from disk or from Sony). The problem is that now windows 7 will not display any sophisticated graphics such as photos or heavy powerpoints.

    It exists with a blue screen of death and then displays an error on restart saying the graphics cards is not capable of supporting  DirectX 9 or above functions. Interesting as it did under XP!

    The above link does not work either (it is the same link as update advisor suggests and is a beta windows 7 support for all Nvidia GPUs) error for that says "no hardware found that this release applies to".

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